Couple problems with a mod

Fyron · #1 September 29th, 2005, 12:59 PM

Do you have prerequisites for the technology with raise level 4 also being assigned? Also, check for a typo in the max level, that it is actually 4 or higher.

Manually follow your colony ship design from DesignCreation.txt and see if the design is valid.

Make sure not to have any build rates of 0. This causes no resources to be required or expended for that type of resource. Note that the AI is not smart enough to handle such systems anyways, and will still try to build ships where it can not do so.

Does the AI have valid designs and is just not constructing them? If so, it might be a problem with the vehicle construction AI file, which I forget the name of. If not, might need to fix more designs than the colony ship.

Wolfman77 · #2 September 29th, 2005, 01:46 PM

Yes, there is a prereq. I tried turning it off and had the same problem though. Still could be it. Maybe a racial trait could get around this, but I was hoping not to get to complicated.

Radioactives are not use in the mod at all, so I took the ability off the space yards. That's what I was thinking could be the problem this morning, but I haven't had time to try it.

Yes they seem to be valid designs. If I play with the comlete AI on to monitor it, I can at the designs it creates myself.

Anyway here are the files if anyone wants to look at them want to look at them.

Wolfman77 · #3 September 29th, 2005, 02:47 PM

Oops, found part of my problem. My construction_vehicles text had a "Colonizer" in there. I think I need to use one of the three "Colony (Rock), Colony (Ice), Colony (Gas)" to get them to work, right?

Doesn't explain why it won't design them though. Unless the AI only designs stuff it recognizes in the construction text. I'm thinking the problem with it not constructing anything is along the lines of what Fyron said, it needs a radioactives construction ability even though it doesn't use it for anything.