Old mods and the new patch
 

Just thought it might be helpful to have all the differences in v1.91 data files listed in one place to help with updating your mods. Please add anything that I missed...

settings.txt -- the only difference is the v1.91 files have the smoothed pop bonuses, so you can just cut-n-paste them into your settings.txt. Don't forget the first line:

Number Of Population Modifiers := 101


components.txt
- Header info (for the optional lists). Obviously you don't have to copy this over if you don't want to...
- Beta Displacement Pulser and Ionic Concussion BLaster now have "Component Destroyed On Use" as an ability.
- Small Graviton Beams now have Gravitational Weapons as their research requirement (instead of tractor/repulser)

facility.txt
- Mineral Scanners, Eco-farms, and Radioactive Colliders (and their Systemwide Versions) all have their values changed:

2. Changed - Mineral Scanner I, II, III have had their modifiers increased to 15%, 30%, 45%.
3. Changed - Hybrid Eco - Farms I, II, III have had their modifiers increased to 15%, 30%, 45%.
4. Changed - Radioactives Collider I, II, III have had their modifiers increased to 15%, 30%, 45%.
5. Changed - System Mineral Scanner I, II, III have had their modifiers increased to 15%, 30%, 45%.
6. Changed - System Eco - Farms I, II, III have had their modifiers increased to 15%, 30%, 45%.
7. Changed - System Radioactives Collider I, II, III have had their modifiers increased to 15%, 30%, 45%.

[ February 29, 2004, 05:39: Message edited by: spoon ]

Re: Old mods and the new patch
 

what is smooth pop bonus?

Re: Old mods and the new patch
 

pop bonuses go up by 1% instead of 10%.

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Abilities.txt:

Added:

AI Tag 01
...
AI Tag 20

# Will force AI to use specific component

Generate Points Minerals
Generate Points Organics
Generate Points Radioactives
Generate Points Research
Generate Points Intelligence

# Will generate corresponding points for an empire each turn.

Re: Old mods and the new patch
 

How are the AI Tags used?

Re: Old mods and the new patch
 

Add a new ability to Components or facilities, with the ability type of "tag ##"

Then the AIs can ask for that ability in their designs and facility queues.

Re: Old mods and the new patch
 

I was kind of hoping it would not be limited to just 20... :-\

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Can a moderator please sticky this? It is important info for modders. Thanks.

Re: Old mods and the new patch
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Well it's really 40, because you can use the same one on a facility that you use for Something Completely Different (tm) on a component, since they're called for by different AI files. But yes, I was hoping for something along the lines of using the ability's Value 1 to specify what you want... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif Oh well, you take what you can get http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Re: Old mods and the new patch
 

Spoon, you missed one.

Components:
- Ionic Concussion BLaster has destroyed on use now as well.

Re: Old mods and the new patch
 

Can anyone out there confirm or deny that DevNull 1.7 works with the new patch? I am hosting a few games with it, and would like to upgrade, but want to ensure that the game will work...

thanks,

Alarik

Re: Old mods and the new patch
 

All mods that work with SE4 Version 1.84 will automatically work fine with the new patch.

Re: Old mods and the new patch
 

"automatically?"

Gads, but I'm scared of those words in contexts like this...


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Re: Old mods and the new patch
 

Automatically, as in, if the mod worked with 1.84, it will have 0 problems working with 1.91. Install any mod designed for 1.84 into SE4 1.91, and it will work fine. Better, in fact, in many cases, due to improved hard coded AI behavior. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Additionally, MM made sure to keep savegames made with 1.84 compatible with the upgrade to 1.91. So, 1.84 savegames should work fine with 1.91 as well (once the PBW host processes the turn with 1.91, for PBW games).

[ February 28, 2004, 22:24: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Re: Old mods and the new patch
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Since the DevNull mod uses its own data files, you won't see any of the changes in the v1.91 Gold data files(ie, no smoothed population bonuses or destroy-on-use storm components). But other than those very few issues, a DevNull 1.70 game should run fine with v1.91 Gold.

Re: Old mods and the new patch
 

Spoon, for ease of reference, can you please edit your initial post to include the change to Ionic Concussion BLaster?

Re: Old mods and the new patch
 

I really need to learn to start using the "sarcasm" tag...

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

thanks,

Alarik

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[ February 29, 2004, 04:44: Message edited by: alarikf ]

Re: Old mods and the new patch
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Done.