Another 1.78 bug

Elowan · #1 August 28th, 2002, 05:41 AM

Tonite I formed an alliance with an alien species and one of their escort ships came to one of my planets. When I clicked on the ship what I got in the righthand window was the ship icon followed by a bunch of '=''s, thusly:

ship ==================

no name.

Here's what my designname text file looks like:

===============================
-- [Escort] --
Escort EC-
Sentinel EC-
===============================
-- [Explorer] --
Nebula NC-
Rover NC-
Pathfinder NC-
Forager NC-
===============================
etc.

It looks as if it's reading my empiredesigns.txt

I'd like to send the save game and related files to Malfador but I don't see an aadr for them to do so.

[ August 28, 2002, 04:42: Message edited by: Elowan ]

Captain Kwok · #2 August 28th, 2002, 06:18 AM

This doesn't look like a bug...more likely the computer player has been set to use the same design names file as you. The computer doesn't know that "=========" is a divider and treats it as any other name.

Elowan · #3 August 28th, 2002, 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
This doesn't look like a bug...more likely the computer player has been set to use the same design names file as you. The computer doesn't know that "=========" is a divider and treats it as any other name.

How do I 'unset' it?

Captain Kwok · #4 August 29th, 2002, 12:14 AM

Once the game is in progress you cannot. However, if you used a pre-made empire file for the computer player, check it to see if you have the design file set to your one.

capnq · #5 August 29th, 2002, 12:22 AM

The best fix would be to put your customized design name list in a uniquely named file that the AI doesn't use.

I'd recommend cutting all the = dividers out, too; your --[class]-- headers should provide enough organization for you to read the file.

AFAIK, there's no way to fix this in the current game. I've never seen changes to a design list propagate to a game that was started before the changes were made. (I have no idea why the game saves this information, rather than reading the file on an as needed basis.)

Elowan · #6 August 29th, 2002, 01:38 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by capnq:
The best fix would be to put your customized design name list in a uniquely named file that the AI doesn't use.

My custom design file is called Antaran.txt.

I think that I know what happened --

I took the design name files such as ROMANIA.TXT out of the folder not realizing that the AI might use these files (du'oh!). So it used the first text file remaining!

[ August 29, 2002, 00:39: Message edited by: Elowan ]