Proportions Mod 3.0.1 available

[Unknown_Enemy]

PvK said:
Proportions mod verision 3.0 is available for download from:

Version 3.0 is NOT backwards-compatible with games created with earlier Versions of Proportions.

Sigh
That means Xenology will have to stay with proportion v2.

[TheDeadlyShoe]

Sweet...

I just started playing SEIV again after a long hiatus. I do wish I had discovered this thread before starting a SP game with the Version of Proportions available on its website....

then again... the AI is reportedly messed up...

Is that something that can be rectified manually (ie; "cheating" and setting the AI's research priorities yourself)?

[dogscoff]

Is that something that can be rectified manually (ie; "cheating" and setting the AI's research priorities yourself)?

That's not "cheating", that's "modding". Go for it (and if you manage to mod yourself a fully-functioning, kickass AI, make sure you post it to the forums.)

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Nice avatar, Shoe.

[TheDeadlyShoe]

narf: Thanks, and thanks for your help. I actually took the movie/converted to a GIF almost exactly 11 months ago, but i only found them again when I was hunting for an avatar to use. Had to clip them some.

@ Dogscoff, I meant like, switching the player off computer control, and playing a turn to set their research priorities. I don't have a firm grasp of proportions tech tree, let alone enough to mod the AI file...

I did take a look at the research file just now, and it doesn't seem complicated at all, but, still...

SIDE NOTE: Attempting to view the tech tree generates numerous access violations. This seems tied to the blank space below the "Fighter Power Plants" area, as no access violations are generated when that is not in view... Opening the tech tree or mousing over that entry will cause them. They are not fatal.

Main thing being that it stops you from exporting the txt file.

Excuse me if that is not new... I didn't check previously

Possible bug:

Several of the cultural structures appear to have numbers in their Description that are supposed to be in the value.
For example..

arcology:

Ability 11 Type := Resource Gen Modifier Planet - Minerals
Ability 11 Descr := 700
Ability 11 Val 1 :=
Ability 11 Val 2 := 0

agriculture cultural center

Ability 18 Type := Resource Gen Modifier Planet - Minerals
Ability 18 Descr := 300
Ability 18 Val 1 :=
Ability 18 Val 2 := 0

Major Spaceport City

Ability 14 Type := Resource Gen Modifier Planet - Minerals
Ability 14 Descr := 200
Ability 14 Val 1 :=
Ability 14 Val 2 := 0

[solops]

PvK said:
Version 3.0 is a new reworking of the mod and the AI HAS NOT BEEN REVISED
very much, AND WILL BE HANDICAPPED RESEARCH pretty critically. [\code]

Cool! Now maybe I'll have a chance.

[Intimidator]

Great mod PvK,

But maybe I'm missing something...... but the AI isn't researching the 10 colony-techs so he isn't able to colonize a planet at all !!!

Please help me out ?

Inti,

[Ed Kolis]

So did you get my new cargo/supply bay pics? Are you going to use them?

[PvK]

Ed, I want very much to use your pics, but they didn't show up in my mail box, as far as I've seen.

PvK

[Ed Kolis]

I sent the email to pvk at wargamer dot com... I'll send it again... does your ISP block attachments or something?
I'll warn you though, the "supply bay" pics look much more like alkaline batteries than like the SE4 supply bays... I thought the supply bays in SE4 looked too much like the cargo bays anywaay... they're at least blue though