Are you planning on posting the updated version? It shows January 4th as the last update time, and steam API agrees that that was the last change.

guess i left a debug line in. i'll remove that in a second. this mod and that one complement each other, as that one specifically prevents behemoths from destroying sectors, but *this* one prevents them from spawning outright without players present

This mod appears to spam the logs something like 20 times per second with "required playercount not met". Beyond that- how does this differ from Offline Behemoths Neutralizer (https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3119037045)?

you'll need to make a server-side mod that changes the variable. look in this mod's code for the variable you'll need to change.

How/where can you change the settings for how many players?