good questions. i think there is a target filter in the Antimodules frigate file, which is the one you need to change. not sure about the second question. id like an answer to that too.

now that i look at it, yes. its probably the AttackType you need to change

Ahh that explains why I couldn't find it as I was only searching in the entrenchment folder, thx a bunch. Now if only someone could help with the other question.

This is kind of oftopic,  in my own thread even , but I am having some issues with the dev.exe. When I run it, it opens a secound window with grey background and tells me that a file is missing. I can select skip or skip all. which ever I press I keep getting a new error with a new file name. Anyone who can help?

EDIT: btw were do I find the pirate raids or what name does it have?

Hmm, ok in what way do the numbers affect the raid? for example if I want it to be twice as big?

I've done some tweaking and it seems as the raid size is a compination of the strength, supply and max ship count. I think supply refers to logistics aka the avaible logistics to create the raid. So if I decrease the logistics costs of the ships or increase the maximum supply and changes the maximum ship number, the raid will consist of more ships. I think the weight changes the priotation of the ship maybe in comparison to logistics.

For example if you have a maximum of 400 supply and a composition of 2 frigates with one with 5 weight and one with 20 weight. The first will use 20 % of the supply aka 80 logistics and the other will use 80 % so 320 logistics. Changing the weights to 10 and 40, won't change the proportions so the raid will be unchanged by that.

So to increase the raid number I will have to change the maximum supply and max shipcount. The strength and treshold seem to be for deciding which composition that will attack.

Something strange I have encountered is that my computer crash when the raid is spawned when I had set it to the amount I wanted it to consist of (was 10 times more ships). This meight be because of my own computer since its GPU is only made to run windows and not games (my laptop is being repaired and this is a replacement I got untill it is repaired). The reason I think so is that I got a "sins of... entrenchment has storped working etc." and a "speak bubble" saying that my screen driver had stoped working. In owrse case I just have to find the amount it can handle and then buff the units accordingly (though that would go somewhat against the goal of the mod so I don't hope so).

Hope this info also will help other people and that someone has a answer for my other question

thx for the reply. I tried to do that, though with the same result. Currently I can run the game with 880 supply, crashed once when I accidently pressed the hot key for my army at the same time the raid was spawned. The crash was a little different as it gave me a mini dump were the too high supply tells me that entrenchment has stopped working without a mini dump. I hope, that  I can push it a little further, though I doubt that will be possible.

hmm Seems like that is not going to be a part of the mod then, but thx for helping with it.

The last error message I get before the game crashes without the mod beind enabled is this one:

Failed to Read File '.\Entrenchment\GameInfo\CAPITALSHIP_PHASEBATTLESHIP.entity'. desired read bytes = 1, actual read bytes = 0.

Not sure if it helps solving the problem, but would be cool if it did

Oh and a last question. If I make it so that you have twice as mutch in logistics do I need to do some altering to the AI?

Sounds odd, the file name in the entrenchment folder fits the one in the error messeage and the unit should not work ingame if the filename was wrong.

That aside I have added 2 new questions to the first post.

from what I have seen question 3 & 4 add the entity's edit the player*.enitity AND the entity.manifest & if adding meshes then the mesh.manifest.

I have written a little utility to create manifests for mods here

sorry I was thinking of the various potential manifests that my manifest maker could be adapted to create if ironclad decide that they need it in the game.

I have written 7 utilities for sins, with 6 released so far and two updates waiting upon permission to re-distribute the older convertdata's, with the un-released one being my string utility, but I am still having some issues with it.

over the past 30 years I would have written over 80 utilities for pc's and the old crash-80 model 1/iii/4/100/200's covering most areas including disk space mapping, an autorunning disc menu creation system on the old crash80's, file copiers, menu's for my defence cd's &dvd's, empty folder remover, junk file remover, midi file renamer to the name of the song stored in the song, and a map updater for supreme commander for the map file update to build 3251 format.

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the best way of telling a joke IS to be a straight man for the joke, and  not see the joke coming, but I do ignore jokes in questions as I assume ALL questions are serious

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the limits that I know of for number of ships is 9 caps,9 cruisers,9 frigates + builder,trader & refinery autospawn frigates, and the extra ships NEED to be entered into the playerRACE.playerdef + have the entity files all in the gameinfo.

I have helped with debugging a mod that had 6 caps.

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well, instead of making another new thread I thought  would ressurect my old ones instead.