TDM-ModPack 3.30 BETA

Marco · #1 January 29th, 2003, 07:11 PM

Hi,
First of all thank you for 3.30 Beta Version and for the impressive timing of his release, as requested I want to inform you about a possible little bug: yesterday evening, after 87 turns, a error message pop up:

�Ai Planet Types Errors: d:\marco\privati\space empires iv gold\tdm-modpack\pictures\races\klingon\klingon_ai_planet_t ypes.txt�

�Unable to load data file: "d:\marco\privati\space empires iv�

however, after my confirmation, the game run normally, without problems.

My settings are: standard mid-life galaxy, 18 TDM-ModPack races, breathable-only world colonisable, medium computer advantage.

As you can easily argue �D:\marco\privati\space empire iv gold\� is the Space Empire 4 directory.

Hope this can help you.
Thanks and bests regards.

Marco.

Mephisto · #2 January 29th, 2003, 09:00 PM

Thanks, Marco. Do you know what type of colony the klingons created that turn or do you have a savegame file?

Tenryu · #3 January 29th, 2003, 09:51 PM

Meph, it is an old link saved as a favorite, I suppose I got it at some time I DLed a ModPak Version. Properties info says it was created on May 20, 2002.

Looks like just the "tdmstart.htm" part is wrong.

http://home.t-Online.de/home/3200453...1/tdmstart.htm

I updated my link to:
http://home.t-Online.de/home/3200453...mstartgold.htm

Thanks

[ January 29, 2003, 19:54: Message edited by: Tenryu ]

Marco · #4 January 30th, 2003, 03:38 PM

Sorry, this morning I experienced a crash on my D:\ hard disk and now I must reinstall all the programs. Unfortunately even the Space Empire 4 Gold directory is gone, nevertheless the error message did not pop up again after turn 87, in case the same or another error message will happen on my new game, I will send you the relative save game file.
Marco.

Mephisto · #5 February 3rd, 2003, 02:30 AM

A new beta Version is available. Races changed since 3.20 are Earth Alliance, Jraenar, Klingon, Narn, Praetorian, Romulan, Sallega, Shadows, Terran, Toltayan, Toron, Ukratal and Xiati. Please check these races out. I hope we didn�t miss any errors.

[ February 13, 2003, 12:05: Message edited by: Mephisto ]

Silent Sorrow · #6 February 2nd, 2003, 09:01 PM

Is the Earth Alliance really changed? I see in the setup menu that the date for the EA still reads 8/5/02 while some of the other changed races (i.e. Jraenar) have a newer 2003 date (something like 2/2/03).

Slick · #7 February 2nd, 2003, 09:37 PM

I know you asked for problems, but I haven't seen any yet. I have seen something encouraging. With the new patch, the AI is supposed to use its bonus a little better. I can confirm that I have seen AI fleets of 35+ ships! And, yes, I said fleetS, meaning more than one large fleet in powerful empires. I saw a really large fleet of the Krill which was very balanced. I have also seen the AI capture planets more frequently. I had seen this (rarely) in pre-1.84, but it is more frequent now. Also its use of stellar manipulation is increased.

Prior to this patch, it seemed like the AI would always run into economic problems and not be able to handle expensive things like large fleet maintenance, Stellar Manipulation, etc. With the change:

v1.82
2. Fixed - Computer Players which had a "Computer Player Bonus" set above None were not using all of their bonus funds.

the stock and modified AI seems to have a cascade improvement and is doing lots of things better.

Great work, guys!

[edit: I just saw an AI fleet of 59 ships!!!]

Slick.

[ February 03, 2003, 04:11: Message edited by: Slick ]