Head to your game's installation file (which will be something like "Stardock Games/Sins of a Solar Empire/"). In this folder, you'll find another folder called "Galaxy" which you should click. Now, please keep in mind, the following is both unverified and could potentially corrupt your game installation or cause other computer problems, so try this at your own risk.

Within the "Galaxy" folder, you'll see all sorts of systems from the game, tutorials, and more. Right-click on any file in the "Galaxy" folder and open it with Notepad. You should see the following string at the top of the text file:

  • homeplanetupgradelevel: population
  • homeplanetupgradelevel: civilianmodules
  • homeplanetupgradelevel: tacticalmodules
  • homeplanetupgradelevel: home
  • homeplanetupgradelevel: artifactlevel
  • homeplanetupgradelevel: infrastructure


These strings mean different things, and represent upgrade choices that can increase tactical capacity, population, and more. Here's what they mean specifically:
  • population = civilian infrastructure
  • civilian modules = logistics capacity
  • tactical modules = tactical capacity
  • home = capital planet (default when you start a game, cannot change)
  • artifact level = exploration (already at max when you start a game)
  • infrastructure = emergency facilities


I personally used the following settings in the above order: 4,2,2,1,2,3.

I'm almost positive that these values are the same for each faction, but I haven't yet tried these numbers for each scenario size or each map. Therefore, you may be limited to the actual max value depending on which galaxy map you choose.

If you head back to the same text file and scroll to the very bottom, you'll find a section that starts with "playercount [#]". You should find it right after the section describing the phase line connections. The section starting with "player 0" represents you. The three strings "startingcredits", "startingmetal", and "startingcrystal" are values of your starting material that can each be changed to a maximum of 9999. Change those values at your leisure.