How to mod the homeworld starting facilities?

Shadowstar · #1 October 5th, 2002, 09:34 AM

Anyone know how to change the facilities a homeworld starts with?

Fyron · #2 October 5th, 2002, 09:43 AM

You can't do it directly: the starting facilities are hard-coded. Each homeworld gets the following:

1 facility with the Spaceport ability
1 facility with the Resupply Depot ability
1 facility with the Space Yard abilities
1 of the highest producing organics facilities that is available with the starting tech
1 of the highest producing radioactives facilities

The rest are split between the highest producing minerals facilities and research facilities.

geoschmo · #3 October 5th, 2002, 04:45 PM

Not correct. They are not hardcoded, they are in the Default_AI_Construction_Facilities.txt, or if your race has a race specific _AI_Construction_Facilities.txt it uses that. You can't change them from within the game, but you can adjsut that file to get diffeerent facilities on your homewolrds.

Geoschmo

Rollo · #4 October 5th, 2002, 05:40 PM

Sorry Geo,
the racename_AI_Construction_Facilities.txt does not determine the facilities on homeworlds. It is indeed hardcoded.

Rollo

[ October 05, 2002, 16:41: Message edited by: Rollo ]

geoschmo · #5 October 5th, 2002, 05:44 PM

Well I never tested it myself, but I asked the same question here a while back and was told it was controlled by the text file.

Gandalph · #6 October 5th, 2002, 06:53 PM

After seeing the classification of "Homeworld" in the construction file, I also made the assumption that you could alter your starting homeworld, but alas all efforts failed. I would say it is indeed hard coded and that the "Homeworld" entry in the construction file will only dictate a colonized world that is chosen as "Homeworld" or if you take a "Homeworld" from another race that still has facility slots open.