Mod: Updated Mod: Sgqwonkian Crisis v1.5

[Fingers]

Have you tried different map sizes yet? Sometimes you can hit various limits easier on a larger map, while a small map works just fine.

Creating a ton of fleets will require you to modify the world_max_fleet number in numbers.ini. Trying to create more fleets than this shouldn't actually crash (just cancel the quest), but it might be worth a try. If your fleets are large, increase world_max_ship as well. Doubling them should be plenty.

You should remove the PLNT lines from your offmap fleets as you're not creating a new planet.

Also, a ton of attacking fleets may "hang" for a long time as they all try to find a path to the target planet. This is why the Ravian invasion fleets are set up to start at different times. If the fleet is slow-moving (no nebula drives) it gets worse, as the pathfinding algorithm has to actually simulate the fleet traveling through space to make travel time estimates and avoid black holes etc.

I'm going to play the mod on PC a few times today.. is the download current?

[Fingers]

I've started the game about 20 times now, and played the gongship mainquest a couple of times. (I set it to always)

The problems so far:
- if you kill the gongship in combat (say, by using a gong) it will crash because the popup tries to display a non-existent image (ships/url_gong.png)
- sgqwonk ship silhouettes have a black square around them. If you can't get PNG images to work, use TGA for this... it's easier.
- the button graphics for the same ships are also broken. The outline frame seems to be all solid.
- Urluquai gong ship sprite (url_gong.tga) seems to have an alpha problem too (a black fringe in front of the gong in the main sprite, a huge black fringe around the gong in the 64x64 image).

I did not see the startgame crash, or any other crashes besides the misnamed image thing. I'll ask Ed to try and debug it on the Mac.

[sgqwonkian]

Sorry to make you do all that work.

The link at the top of this thread is not the current one... once it started crashing I decided not to upload it and inflict it on everyone.

It hadn't occurred to me that one of the games designers/developers/coders/etc would be available to help fix my mod. Talk about incredible customer service. Thank you. I gotta buy more of you folks's games.

I'll throw the buggy files back into it, and upload it later tonight/early tommorrow so you can see if it's causing trouble for you.

[sgqwonkian]

Oh, and the PLNT urlu was an artifact from an earlier version. Thanks for pointing it out... and it brings up a question.

Does the attack command only work if a ship starts off the board, or am I doing something else wrong?

I'd tried it first with them set to FLAG existing, PLNT urlu. It generated them on the Uluquai homeworld, but they would never attack to anywhere.

[sgqwonkian]

Okay, Here's the newest version of the Sgqwonk mod, the version that keeps crashing painfully.

[Ed_Zavada]

I get a crash at the end of each game -- it seems like the game.gfc is being corrupted everytime, this happens with or without the mod. I've only tried on PowerPC, not on Intel, so it might be an issue with how numbers are stored (which is different between PowerPC and Intel).

However, I was *not* able to get it crash by choosing the right hand or middle missions and clicking though Major Brass's dialog. This was with latest attachment in your message #543040.

Can you give me your system profile? (Apple Menu->About this Mac->More Info... then once system profiler opens File->Save)

[sgqwonkian]

Okay, the attached file is my system profile. I had to zip it to get it to upload due to forum file restrictions.

[Fingers]

Re: the attack command, yes I think it only works on offmap fleets... Just one of those things, we never had attacking fleets starting at a star (of course you couldn't tell that's the case anyway, as they start moving right at the beginning of the game).