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Has anyone been able to mod the minor factions so they show up in game. I only ever get Illyan faction to show up but there are a lot of minor faction in the listing. I would like to be able to activate them all or at least mod and put in new ones to help flesh out the game. Thanks for your replies.
Never thought about this, but you're right, Serin. Illyan seems to be the only one I ever see.
Yet another thing to add to the list of many "should-be-moddable" features of the game.
Illyan is the only one, there use to be a bunch of them, but they were taken out long ago. There were several things in the game taken out that made the game more interesting.
Cool, thank you for the replies. I was beginning to wonder if it was just me. 
On minor factions I have learned this: The only one to spawn is Iyana because <CapitalHubType> NPC_MiningHamlet </CaptialHubType> is the only one that is in game from what I can see. NPC_CrystalHamlet doesn't seem to be there anywhere. NPC_RamisBlackstone is the only NPC that shows up in game. I am not able to locate where they store the NPC_RamisBlackstone, NPC_Valdiri, NPC_Snathi, etc. If I could find those I could perhaps edit or repair them to function. I am also gonna try to get them to build improvements around their settlements and maybe get them to grow to a certain level. Control their expansion by not allowing them to build Pioneers, so you just end up with a decent NPC settlement, like an old greek city-state. I think their merchants would need looking at to be sure they are selling the right stuff. Maybe add new items they sell only. I would also have to find out how they spawn Major and Minor faction's distance from each other and be sure to spread them all out. I am really tired of have 3-4 Major Factions crowding me while the rest of the map is mostly unsettled. I will keep posting as I learn more. **********************************************************
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I have found the minor faction NPCs, they are located in CoreUnits and are mid way in the file. They appear to be functional and I found the city setups and they look good so the only thing I can reasonably conclude is that somewhere in the executable the boolean value to activate minor factions is turned off and I am unable to access that, so looks like the Devs will have to tackle this one.
They show up if you add them to a map in the Cartographer, so they are working. The game just isn't placing them when it populates a world.
Thanks for the info on placing them. Just wonder why they aren't showing on game generated maps. Still poking around in the code to find the answer but if someone finds it first let me know. Thanks.
Not sure anyone is even reading this post but the reason the minor factions don't show up on the game generated maps is because they were never put on them. Editing the maps I see one spot for minor factions and several for random main factions. It is my belief that the Devs didn't consider that minor factions don't populate a map like the Major ones do, so the random locations are invalid for Minor Factions. The only fix I can see working is editing the primary maps, adding the Minor Factions then saving over old maps, thus giving you minor factions during game play. Hope this helps.
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