Increasing pirate and Trade Guild frequency?

[MaverickSawyer]

I'm pretty sure this has been asked before, but a search turned up nothing...



When I first started playing, the pirates and Trade Guild would both appear at regular intervals, and would even come by whatever asteroid or station I was hanging out at. However, the last few hours of actual gameplay have had no AI ships other than turrets appear. Nothing. It's really starting to bug me, being out there all alone. (Plus, I have a TON of turrets on my upgraded station, and I want to see how they'd fare in an attack...)



Is there any surefire way to increase the rate at which the computer spawns new AI ships?

 

[DracoNB]

There isn\'t a setting (yet), but for now you can spawn enemies with /initiate_wave # #, like /initiate_wave 5 5 for a strength of 5 that spawn in 5 seconds.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Aha, now that is something I need to try. Thanks for the tip!

 

[Comr4de]

There is a way to increase the rate of Sim mobs, just decrease the time interval on the line SIMULATION_SPAWN_DELAY.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

I did that, and that\'s when they disappeared.