Fyron's Quadrant Mod Discussion Thread

oleg · #1 July 30th, 2002, 04:38 PM

Imperor, there is still a _huge_ problem with homeworlds: Several system types have a medium sized moons around huge gas giants. When SE seeds players (1, 3 ... planet start - does not matter)
it sometimes picks up these medium size planets as a normal homeworld. What happens next is ugly: SE "transfers" homeworld to number 1 planet - gas giant. As a result, you can often see rock oxygen player start on huge hydrogen gas giant. You can get lucky and get native atmosphere on gas giant ! Still, it basically makes game unplayable. I suggest to change medium sized moons to either small or even large size !
Alternatevely, change the order of planets and make gas giant to "orbit" potential home worlds.

Fyron · #2 July 30th, 2002, 07:44 PM

Yeah, I know. This is more of a bug with SE4.

I guess I could do that. Have you noticed that it transfers the homeworld when playing with Small or Large homeworlds, or does it only do that with Medium ones?

oleg · #3 July 30th, 2002, 07:55 PM

I did not try it with other sizes, only medium. But I think it will do the same. I was trying to edit your systemtypes.txt and convert medium to small, but got lost in about 1/3 of the file. It is one HUGE list of systems !

Fyron · #4 July 30th, 2002, 08:57 PM

Yeah, and I plan on having more.

You only need to edit Standard 1 AS I through Standard 12 AS II (at the bottom). Those are the vast majority of inhabitable systems used in all quadrants save Ancient and the Classic ones.

oleg · #5 July 31st, 2002, 03:48 AM

OK, I edited systemtypes.txt
Offending planets have been changed from medium to small. There are no more mistakes when SEIV generates homeworlds:

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henk brouwer · #6 July 31st, 2002, 05:42 PM

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Originally posted by oleg:
OK, I edited systemtypes.txt
Offending planets have been changed from medium to small. There are no more mistakes when SEIV generates homeworlds:
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Would it be possible to generate a new planet size class, with the same size and characteristics as Medium worlds but under a different name, something like "Medium moon". I think the AI looks for "Medium" worlds when assigning homeworlds and not for the actual size.

Fyron · #7 August 1st, 2002, 04:19 AM

Henk:
Yes, but that would make it so that the maps would not be compatible with any other mods or the normal game. That was not the goal of FQM.

Oleg:
Interesting, I'll take a look.