Fill Faction Menu
Per-faction opt-in table. Each row is one faction with two independent toggles: Trading Station (whether DA fills that faction’s trade stations) and Ship Building Station (whether DA fills that faction’s shipyards and wharfs).
In-game view
Section titled “In-game view”
Columns
Section titled “Columns”| Column | Values | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Faction | Every enumerated faction (vanilla + modded) | The subject faction. |
| Trading Station | Enabled / Disabled | Whether DA runs the trade-station fill logic (Max/Min percentage bands) on this faction’s trade stations. |
| Ship Building Station | Enabled / Disabled | Whether DA runs the shipyard/wharf fill logic (Min percentage band) on this faction’s yards. |
Default state in the observed save
Section titled “Default state in the observed save”Most factions default to Enabled / Enabled. Notable exceptions:
- Kha’ak —
Disabled / Disabled. Kha’ak have no economy to fill. - Xenon —
Disabled / Enabled. Xenon don’t run trade stations so the trading toggle is inert, but their shipyards/wharfs get filled (subject to the Xenon Shipbuilding Setting master, which forces the min-25 % floor when on).
When to disable a faction
Section titled “When to disable a faction”- Bandwidth control: save-file CPU cost — disabling factions you never trade with cuts the tick cost. Especially useful if you have many modded factions.
- Deliberate starvation: you want a specific faction to remain economically weak / dying. Disable both toggles and their stations gradually run dry.
- Modded-faction cleanup: a compat mod added a faction that shouldn’t participate in DA fill. Disable them here without touching global toggles.
When to re-enable
Section titled “When to re-enable”- Rescue a struggling AI: if a faction is losing sectors because they can’t afford supplies, re-enabling gives them the DA fill floor.
- Reversing a starvation strategy: flip both toggles back on.
Interaction with Trading Station Credit Limit
Section titled “Interaction with Trading Station Credit Limit”Even when Trading Station is Enabled on this menu, the actual amount of fill is still capped by the faction’s account balance if Trading Station Credit Limit is on. So enabling the row does not guarantee full-strength fills — the faction still needs credits.