Hi Everyone,
I'm not sure if anyone has noticed a slight problem with some of the Race_AI_General files in 1.5.1.1 (I cannot find any note of it being changed in any later beta Versions either).
As far as I can tell the Characteristic/Trait settings in the Text files are different from the ones used in the Emp files (at least for 5000 racial points).
In two of these cases (Breen & Klingon) the settings in the Text files stop any Advanced Traits (including Racial tech & native planet Types!) being chosen, stoping these randomly generated empires building ships and colonising.
This is due to the Charateristics using to many points before them, unlike the ones used directly in the Emp files. This seems to be mainly due to the Aggression settings (120, which is more than the 110 max you can manually choose anyway!
).
The other example is the Orion General text file it does not leave enough Points to choose all of their Advanced traits (it does get the Racial tech & colony ones so it will expand). This seem to be due to the extra Defensivness (110 compared to 100 on Emp) & maintanance (110 comp to 105 in Emp).
Overall this means that unless you explicitally add the empire from the included Emp file (or make your own) it will not play properly at all (less of a problem for the Orions since they will still expand)
I hope this report is not outdated already
[ March 14, 2004, 18:57: Message edited by: XenoTheMorph ]