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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:

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Originally posted by Sinapus:
Nifty.

BTW: How did you create those designcreation.txt file entries for desired/maximum speed? Do you have a conVersion program, or did you do it the hard way and type each entry in one by one?

(Wondering since I've been thinking of ways to include a system similar to what you have in my games. Modding all the race's designcreation.txt files is the only thing stopping me right now.)

More importantly, does it work? I've not been able to get the AI to respect 'desired speed' when engines ae given more than one standard movement and I don't know of anyone else who has either.

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Yes, it does work. All or almost all of the AI's designs, for all AI's, even Neutrals, now build with correct numbers of engines, and even mix high-output engines with efficient engines to achieve different tradeoffs in speed versus range and cost.

The bad news is it is essentially all done by hand-tweaking, and required multiple entries for different sizes of the same design type. This is one of the main reasons why it has taken so much work to create decent AI's for Proportions.

The technique is to use the Max Speed line to specify the desired number of normal engines - the AI obeys.

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