Puzzling settings.txt issue?

Arboris · #1 March 13th, 2003, 05:31 AM

Hello,

I don't have the modding experience that many of the members of the SEIV modding community have. However I can make simple changes without having to reinstall SEIV to get everything working properly again :-)

Having said that I am baffled by the following...

I want to change the spread on the number of random AI players that are chosen for random computer empire settings. I understand that this simple change should be easy to make in the setting.txt file. However no matter what I do it does not seem to adhere to my changes. I have tried dozens of times with the same results.

For example: I can change all the numbers to 4 for minimum and maximum settings. However the game will still generate a random number of opponents totally disregarding any parameters I choose.

Any suggestions?

-Wulf

Captain Kwok · #2 March 13th, 2003, 05:38 AM

NigelWulf:

It will not work, this is a known bug that I've talked to Aaron about, and hopefully will be addressed.

This causes a horrible error in mods with less than 20 available races (i.e., Star Trek Mod) regardless of what you set in settings.txt - and create annoying duplicate empires! The only way around this is to add AI empires manually.

Arboris · #3 March 13th, 2003, 05:47 AM

Captain Kwok,

Thank you for the info! I barely just posted the topic and here I already have the answer. This forum and it's members never cease to amaze me.

Thanks again!

-Wulf

Fyron · #4 March 13th, 2003, 06:55 AM

The SE4 Modding 101 tutorial (linked in my sig) might be of help to you.

Arboris · #5 March 13th, 2003, 07:06 AM

Imperator Fyron,

It already has

It is a great resource!

-Wulf

Fyron · #6 March 13th, 2003, 07:31 AM

Actually... I should probably mention something about those settings not working 100% correctly in the tutorial.