Reasons why the AI runs out of resources

[Mephisto]

I will get into this in some time but this is just GREAT! Thank you very much for the insight!

[jowe01]

Atrocities, seems you have already significantly improved the construction files for the standaard AIs. Would you mind posting your Versions ? Thanks !

[Tomgs]

Another reason that you find mineral mining planets on worlds that have low mineral percentages is that the catchall world type (the Last entry in each section) is a mining colony world. This means that any world that isn't used as any other type becomes a mining planet. If you change this I don't know what would happen you might be able to make it into a research or other type world instead but there has to be a catch all or there might be errors cropping up. Thats why there is a mining colony type at the end of each section that has a maximum of 100 worlds per system.

[Tampa_Gamer]

FYI - I did some major testing on this file Last night (well, ok at least three hours worth). Set up the AI_Default_Planet_Type file to only create "Construction Yards" and set up a sample [Race]_Planet_Type file to only create "Military Installations" In each case the, game stopped using both of respective files after 7 or 8 planets in several different games. There must be some defaults or max imbedded in the game itself.

Then I went back the [Race]_Planet_Type file and took out all the 100's (i.e. if I want mineral planet chosen in all cases in which Min>110) I put:

Mineral Value = 110
Organic Value = 0
Radioactives Value = 0

But I made sure there were several catch-alls at the end of the file. You know what, this time it followed the file 100% of the time for a total of 31 planets colonized (as far as I got Last night. I guess the conclusion I reached is that this is a very fragile file and modders should carefully test any changes they make by testing it in several different galaxy, tech level and planet start types and I would not recommend changing the AI_Default_Planet_Types for this reason. Of course, this does not mean that the individual races cannot have their own Planet_Type files

[This message has been edited by Tampa_Gamer (edited 16 January 2001).]