[pathfinder]

Val: Cascor e-mailed to ya

Timstone: capnq is the one with the non-gold to gold conVersion instructions.

They are:

How to patch a pre-Gold AI to work with Gold:

1. Pick an existing Gold race which you want the new race to act like.

2. Open the Gold race's _AI_Settings.txt

3. Highlight and copy the lines from

"Ships don't move through minefields := "

to

"Maximum Anti-Planet Drone Target System Distance := "

4. Open the new race's _AI_Settings.txt

5. Paste the copied text after

"Personality Group := "

6. Save the file.

7. Open the Gold race's _AI_Fleets.txt

8. Highlight and copy the line

"Percentage of Fleets to use for defense := "

9. Open the new race's _AI_Fleets.txt

10. Paste the copied text after

"Fleets Default Strategy := "

11. Save the file.

12. If the new race has a _AI_Strategies.txt file, open the Gold race's _AI_Strategies.txt . If the Gold race doesn't have a Strategies file, open the Default_AI_Strategies.txt file from the Ai folder.

13. Highlight and copy the lines from

"Name := Drone Attack"

to

"Break Formation Drones := "

14. Open the new race's _AI_Strategies.txt

15. Paste the copied text after the Last

"Break Formation Drones := "

entry.

16. Save the file.

17. The new race is now Gold compatible. (Note that by "compatible", I mean the race won't produce all those error Messages; this patch will /not/ teach the AI to research drones.)

[ November 09, 2002, 04:15: Message edited by: pathfinder ]