Spawner states

A gang's spawners (four per gang, GangAddSpawner) make humans according to their state: GangAddSpawner's kind starts one in a state and GangStartSpawner(gang, name, state, value) switches it (AI: spawners).

What is complete

All twelve states are listed; 6 and 10 only the game sets.

12 entries. Data: research/references/spawner-states.yaml.

Entries

State	Name	Behaviour	Settable	Added	Switched	Scripts
0	stopped	Makes nobody.	yes	75	127	36763710, survival, level2, level2_junkyard, level3, level3_chase
1	on	Spawns at its position whenever it may (delay, alive and total limits).	yes	28	25	hifi, kinghill, level2, level2_junkyard, level3, level3_chase
2	delayed	Spawns once value seconds have passed since it was given the state.	yes
3	near the player	Spawns while player 1 is within value metres.	yes
4	police dispatch	Waits for a crime to be routed to it, then makes a new gang of type 1 (police) named Responder<n> and goes to 6; only while the game's police count is under its limit (game state +0x324 < +0x326). Starts with value 75.	yes	11		level5, level9, level11, level14, level82, level86
5	far from the player	Spawns while player 1 is farther than value metres.	yes	6	2	level52, level83
6	dispatching police	Spawns the police squad out of the camera's sight around the player, value metres off; back to 4 once the squad is complete.	no
7	reinforcements	Spawns on a pedestrian flag at least 35 m from the player beside or behind the view, or ahead at least the view distance capped at 70 m (possibly under 35 m), out of the camera's sight and clear of the gang's friends.	yes	59	44	level2, level3, level5, level9, level11, level14
8	out of sight	Spawns out of the camera's sight around the player, value metres off.	yes	27	14	level3_chase, level9, level11, level11_chapter1, level11_chapter3, level20
9	gang dispatch	Like 4, without the police limit, and the new gang takes the spawner's gang type and relations; goes to 10.	yes	15		level5, level9, level11, level14, level20, level51
10	dispatching gang	Like 6 for the gang made in 9; back to 9.	no
11	keep up the numbers	Tops the gang up while its living members are fewer than the gang's limit, ignoring the spawner's own alive limit; stops (0) once the gang has spawned its total. Added in this state, the spawner is also made off screen (never spawns while a camera sees its spot); switched to it, it keeps its flag.	yes

Sources and evidence

Evidence levels used: confirmed-code, inferred.

• SLUS_212.15, spawner update 0x001681a0
• SLUS_212.15, state 7 placement 0x001679e8

Fields

Field	Type	Hand-written	Meaning
id	int		The spawner state (spawner +0x52): GangAddSpawner's kind, GangStartSpawner's mode.
name	str	yes	Our short name for it.
behaviour	str	yes	When the spawner makes a human and what it does then.
settable	bool		Whether GangStartSpawner can set it (the code's switch takes 0-5, 7, 8, 9 and 11).
added	int		GangAddSpawner calls that start a spawner in it.
started	int		GangStartSpawner calls that switch a spawner to it.
scripts	list		The scripts that make those calls (at most six).
source	str	yes	Where the entry comes from: a script and binding, an address, a chunk.
evidence	str	yes	How we know: confirmed-code, confirmed-runtime, inferred or speculative (evidence levels).
notes	str	yes	Our own short notes.