Space Empires V Editor 1.2 Released

[Devnullicus]

Downloading it now. You're right - it's slow But I wouldn't mind playing it in any case, so I don't mind. Hopefully this will also allow me to fix a few problems in the editor as well, though.

[Devnullicus]

Santiago said:
Hi Some observations for you.

B. Facilites come up with an ErrorListForm.

Error(s) reading c:\program files\strategy first\malfador machinations\space empires compilation\se5\gametypes\golden eclipse\Data\Facilities.txt:
line 442: Unknown Requirement Parameter Type
line 443: Unknown Requirement Parameter Type
line 446: Unknown Requirement Parameter Type
line 484: Unknown Requirement Parameter Type
line 485: Unknown Requirement Parameter Type
line 488: Unknown Requirement Parameter Type
line 514: Unknown Requirement Parameter Type
line 515: Unknown Requirement Parameter Type
line 518: Unknown Requirement Parameter Type
line 544: Unknown Requirement Parameter Type
line 545: Unknown Requirement Parameter Type
line 548: Unknown Requirement Parameter Type

I press D'oh and the respective editor comes up but is totally blank. No entries whatsoever.

I guess my question is if a txt file is slightly out of whack, it won't even load anything? Other editors worked fine.

OK, I finally got a chance to download this mod and test it in the editor. I get this same behavior in the facilities file.

The reason for this is because of the following lines in facilities.txt:
Code:

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Requirement 1 Type                              := Number Per Player

Requirement 1 Name                   		:= None

Requirement 1 Amount                            := 0

---

and various lines like it.

I've never seen any other file use Requirement Type, Requirement Name, or Requirement Amount. I'm not sure what these are supposed to do or why they're in the file.

Does anyone know if these are legitimate entries and if they do anything?

In any case, you're correct that even if it gets these errors, it shouldn't make the whole file unreadable, so I'll work on making the editor handle this error more gracefully for the next release.

[Devnullicus]

Opening up components, I get errors like the following:

line 3333: Input string was not in a correct format.

When I look at the line, I see this:

Code:

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Weapon Space At Range Distance Increment        := 10.0 + (Get_Empire_Tech_Level("Magnetic Acceleration") * 10)

---

As far as I know, unless the line has a "Formula" at the end, it can't accept formula-type strings. Is this particular line special? Is it legal to have a formula here?