Hey guys,

The repair ships you have I noticed that you have to manually make them repair stuff.  They should never have to do be miromanaged that the player has to keep clicking on something to be repaired.

I had the same issue when I changed the carrier to use repair droids in my mod.  this is the fix below.

Your setting.  AbilityRepairDroidsFederation.entity

levelSourceType "FixedLevel0"
aiUseTime "OnlyWhenManyTargetsInRange"
onlyAutoCastWhenTargetCountExceedsAmount

Change to use these.

levelSourceType "Intrinsic"
minExperienceLevelRequired

After you change it to this the ships will automaticaly launch the repair drones.

Ive already tested it and it works fine.

And here comes...The Push for Higher Hardcode Limits.

Lo

TBH we have NO CLUE why soa2 failed with the new patch. I belive it was a combination of things. Some can run it fine while for others it dumped left and right. I did notice a lot of "junk" in the mod folder that we dont use anymore. Plus we had leftover files from a time when we needed every file from the original game in the gameinfo, window, and pipeline effect folders for the mod to run. We dont need those files now. Since entrenchment loads only what is on the manifest.

I was under the assumption (i still am) that the game loads all of the vanilla stuff on top of the mod stuff. Regardless if it is needed or not. I still am not sure if the game only loads what is on the manifest or not, and if an entity is not loaded all of its referenced files stay unloaded. If i completely remove a faction from the manifest the game dumps.

When we had 5 factions running we didnt have all of the meshes in game yet. 0.03c only had ships, but no structures. so it was "duplicating" the vanilla structures for each faction. We were close, but not over the limit. If we were it was not enough to cause problems.

There has to be a "buffer zone" in regards to the limits. This mod (though i still debate the fact) 7ds, and you said yourself manshooter that you went way over the mesh limits, and you had no problems.. until 1.041. My question is how far over the limits were you? and at what point did it start creating issues?

Rebuild status...

about 25% complete. I have all the federations models, and textures back in. I am redoing some particles so that we dont need as many in the mod. Got the new naming convention done... well its the same as the old sins naming convention except psi is now fed. No longer do we use frigatefedconstitution it is now FrigateFedScout, and so on. buildings got same treatment. I am trying to mimic sins as close as possible.

All the "junk" in the mod folder is gone. All the redundant files are too.

Gonna import the final 2 missing federation ships before i finish them off. Intrepid is being moved to heavy cruiser slot. Akira is being moved to antistructure slot (yes she WILL attack ships too). Nova class, and Sabre class are going to fill the gaps. That should take care of all the fed combat slots. Need civilian stuff now. like a starbase constructor. will use vanilla models for now.

Danube runabout (with torpedo pod) will fill the "mine" slot. Which means the feds wont use mines. The Klingons wont use mines ether (dishonorable tactic). which is fitting because the Romulans DO use mines, but dont use strike craft. This will free up more mesh, and texture slots

Once i get the sounds back in Jtalorpcs ill need your help with the researches. We need to remove all of the vanilla references.

are you useing  the constructor from star trek armada 2

no problems    

 Hey is there something I can do to help? Like test out a new verison or something?

When i have all the weapons, and sounds re-imported ill re-sync the foundation. RL made me take a day off from this.

I ran into one little snag... The antimodule slot wont let that ship attack another ship unless you remove the antimodule roletype from the entity. I do not know if that will mess the AI up, or not, The "frigateantimodule" stat counter is still there on the entity. I need to do more testing to see if the AI will build it, or if the AI spazzes again. I am making sure that at least one of every roletype is there this time. Missing roletypes is what made the AI spaz in the first place.

Yup, that is the classic error of modders in Sins. Not realizing that you MUST have all roletypes in your faction in order for the AI to function... And the AI is hardcoded. Cant blame the modders, because no one was aware of this until we found out... the hard way.

there are a few entry's in a ship entity that determine its role in the game, and how the AI builds them. I discovered this while trying to "force" the AntiStructure roletype to attack other ships.

typeCount 2:  This is how many roles a ship can perform. The average ship only has 1. The max is 2 i belive. I need to test it some more.

frigateRoleType "Light":   This is the actual roletype sins sees, and the AI will make the ship behave AS that roletype. Sometimes you will see more than one roletype. For example most scout roletypes have a second "antimine" roletype. I found out the roletypes do not have to match the stat type. ill get into that below. However if you want an AntiStructure ship to attack other ships you MUST remove the antistructure roletype. It is hardcoded to only attack structures. Give it the light, or heavy frigate roletype instead. The AI will still see it as an "antistructure" ship despite its true role in the build order, and here is why....

statCountType "FrigateAntiStructure": THAT is what makes the AI determine what to build, and That is what is missing when the AI does not build. You MUST have one of each roletype in THIS line in order for the AI to function properly. The above lines can be ANY other roletype you want your ship to be, but the sins AI will still see the ship in the build order as what it is in the StatCountType. Missing types here is why the AI fails.

I have tested this theory, and it works. The AI determines its build order by the StatCountType, and it determines actual ship behavior by the frigateRoleType.

I told you i can make sins dance

I've been trying to figure this out for a while, before entrenchment I made a mod that consolodated the cruisers into "light" and "heavy" cruisers, and predictably the game didn't work very well. I might have to go back and try that again now that I know this.

Thank you for everything you've done Major Stress, take your time and we look forward to the final release.

We had fighter and bombers in the dev build for some not all factions. However that build became unstable and therefore we are rebuilding it from scratch !   "Patience is a virtue. Diligence is a gift"