Newbie pulling hair out

Phoenix-D · #1 August 25th, 2002, 11:09 PM

If you want you can also add the lines it complains about yourself; just copy/paste them from a race that works.

Rollo · #2 August 25th, 2002, 11:20 PM

here is a link that might be of help:
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/cgi-bin...&f=23&t=004966

gregebowman · #3 August 26th, 2002, 07:38 PM

Believe me, Malmitto, I had the same problem recently. You just have to edit the old races, and there are more than enough experience players here to tell you exactly how do it. I just had to modify some races Last night that I downloaded. It's not that hard. Just a matter of cutting and pasting.

[ August 26, 2002, 19:04: Message edited by: gregebowman ]

Purna · #4 August 26th, 2002, 07:54 PM

It seems like SEIV is not very good about being upwards-compatible. I'm surprised this isn't on anyone's wish-list for future Versions.

Sure, it might be hard to make a mod-race take advantage of new technologies, but it should be easy enough to give all of these new fields reasonable default values, which is what everyone is doing with the cut'n'paste technique. Old fields should always carry the same semantics, too...if anything major changes, a new field should be defined, and the deprecated one should just be ignored.

Each of these files should also have a Version/revision number as a field, so that you could set an option like "Gold Version AI only" in your setup screen.

Suicide Junkie · #5 August 26th, 2002, 08:11 PM

SE4 is pretty darn good about being forwards compatible!
Look at any patch, and you will see that savegames and mods all still work.
Classic to Gold is NOT a patch, and is NOT a reasonable comparison.

Malamitto · #6 August 26th, 2002, 08:45 PM

Wow, the cut and paste trick went a long way towards solving the problem. Thanks to everyone for those suggestions, the only problem I have now is with a pesky MOD that won't seem to function, but thats not as big an issue as getting the older AIs to work.

Thanks!

Purna · #7 August 26th, 2002, 08:46 PM

Oh? Pardon my ignorance. I was under the impression that Gold was just Classic repackaged with a bunch of mods and a new manual. But I am new to the whole series with Gold.

It can help to avoid confusion like this by bumping the major revision number when making a non-upwards compatible change in the software.

The progression from IV to V does not introduce the ambiguity that arises when going from "Classic" to "Gold". And no one would expect SEIV files to work unmodified on SEV.