Posted by: sloanjh
« on: May 29, 2014, 06:46:43 AM »NPR's the game creates through either your or another NPR exploration are under full game control and hidden from both you and the SM mode. So you cannot use SM to actually "edit" the NPR race in any way at all. You can only use the SM mode to edit the universe they live in, such as deleting stuff you can already see like systems etc.
Unless designer mode is turned on, in which case their race becomes visible. You can ask Steve for the designer password. Note that (IIRC) you need to be careful in designer mode since you can still corrupt the game - the AI plays with slightly different rules (e.g. no fuel consumed by ships, lots of minerals so it doesn't run out (since it's not clever enough to do a good job of planning for/avoiding this case)) so if you add/remove the wrong thing you might confuse it. Just dropping population and/or industry numbers should be ok, though.
John