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Re: Proportions Prob

The "Fast" colony type yes, but with the Grav drive you loose some storage that comes with the engines un less my designs need tweeking http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

edit typo

[ March 13, 2003, 20:56: Message edited by: mottlee ]

Re: Proportions Prob

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Originally posted by Krelian:
Hi, I just downloaded the proportions mod... and i have a couple questions..

1) Some tech areas says they are a mere formality for the AI... i am suposed to not research them?

2) I just made a colony ship and a starliner, put like 5 engines on each, they say "generate 5 stardard movement" but my ships just move 1 square per turn... is that normal or that is some error ?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Also in this mod the colony ships are limited to 3 MAX moves, You get used to the change in times and when you play an UN-modded game you will get lost in the speed http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Proportions Prob

Actually, not http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif You can select propulsion experts, add gravitic drives and colony ship will fly at speed 5 !

Also, there is a special research area "fast colony ships" if you are so desperate http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Proportions Prob

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Originally posted by PvK:
Thanks for uploading the game, Mottlee. It's really interesting to see it in progress after 650-some turns! You have some wicked ship designs! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Looks like the AI is breaking down in a couple of ways. One unrelated one is it seems not to be developing very well. I haven't tried to figure out why yet.

I think I see what is causing the DBZ error. The AI defending the planet has a bunch on infantry there... with no equipment. Empty infantry units. I don't know why the AI is doing this, but it is, and that, I think, must be causing the error.

Solutions, then, for the short term, would be to have some human player go run a turn for all the AI, jettison any empty infantry, and maybe set them straight on some other stuff if you want, especially giving them an inf design that uses weapons.

However I guess they may go back to building more. Does anyone (oleg, John?) have time to use this file and try to figure out why the AI is doing this, and come up with a fix?

It'd be good to email MM too to let them know it crashes if there are troops with no components. I can probably make it so Proportions won't allow troops without components, but the AI has a way of ignoring design limits. Might work, though.

PvK

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">PvK,
This is how you bring a previous Post to the front, by using the quote button http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Would this be Possible for you to do?
With your "Posted Fighter Ideas", so that I may read them.

[ March 13, 2003, 22:09: Message edited by: JLS ]

Re: Proportions Prob

I don't know if it would be "Possible", JLS, because some have suggested the post may have been lost from the server, and I don't feel like looking. I don't think that post contained any more information than my recent Posts on the subject, which I think you have read.

If it is on the system, you should be able to find it with a search. Try searching the whole forum for Posts by me, with words "fighter" and "3.0" in them.

PvK