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You need to use conditionals. The only reason the "isBoarded" is percent is so that the player can see which ships have been taken over that way. All the Ragnarov's abilities, Psionic Scream, and countless other Rebellion abilities use it without having an explicit boolean.

In my current mod, there are no neutral (capturable) extractors....when going through the TEC frigates, I figured I might as well remove the frigate roletype "ResourceCapturer" from the TEC colony ship...

And every game that started with an AI controlled TEC player would MD exactly 30s into the game (right when a normal AI starts its construction orders)...there were a bunch of other concurrent changes aside from the one above, but it seems that giving back the "ResourceCapturer" role to the colony ship fixed the problem...

So, why does not having any ship with the frigate roletype "ResourceCapturer" cause the game to MD?  I thought the AI only looked at stat count types when building ships...

This is incorrect. It also looks at RoleTypes, I can confirm this from my own testing. There are times where I've had ship X, which say has 6 RoleTypes. After I removed one, and later when I added a different, RoleType, the AI produced the ship in different amounts, even though the ship's stats and statCountType did not change.

The AI is also aware of if a ship has fighters, even if it is not listed as having the Carrier RoleType or statCountType. I know this from a ship, defined solely as a Heavy, that the AI produces in rather large amounts for a Heavy. Usually the AI doesn't build too many of these, due to a preference for siege ships, carriers, and LRFs. Yet the AI's frigate fleets always have a good number of these ships present.

If you're willing to make a new planet for it, you could have this planet have say 3 planet exploration upgrades. For artifacts you can set the minimum upgrade required to find the artifact. Set it to three, you basically make it impossible to find anywhere else.

However, note that the artifact will still be randomly placed instead of other artifacts, they just can't be found except on that planet. So the effective artifact density on every map will go down, so you may want to increase this to compensate, or just put all this in a separate minimod.

I feel like this is an idiot question, but...

I'm updating/fixing More Hangar Space. For me, installing the mod was confusing- the folder structure isn't right. Finally figured that out, but the game crashed when trying to load it. Figured that out, but it didn't work properly. Found three files that are necessary to make it work with Diplomacy. Added them, modified them to match the Original and Ent files, and it crashed again when loaded. Figured out how to convert my own binary files to text. Started from scratch, got everything up and running, no crashes. Tested with all three races. Works great!

So now the question: what do I do with it? I mean, I can use it, but the original mod was downloaded 17000 times (between the two versions). Three questions:

1) What mod repository sites are still active that I can upload this baby to?

2) I don't have Rebellion, is there someone willing to test this in that expansion if I add its components in?

3) I rebuilt the mod from scratch. I'm also not using the same values Grimjowl or Silveressa used. However, I did use Grimjowl's version as a reference. Do I need to contact him before release, or just give a shout-out to his earlier work?

I downloaded the Rebellion files from a sticky on these forums. I was going to make a Rebellion version with those, so no entity files from Trinity should be used. I could then include the mod for each version of the game, but I don't want to include it without testing- and I can't test it.

Thanks for the other answers! In other, unrelated news, any idea why I can't upload an avatar pic? It says uploading, then does nothing- no error message even. My pic is 99x99 pixels and 12KB. Tried on Firefox and IE, with full javascript allowed.

Random map factor. Kinda cool watching stars spew novalith looking projectiles. Surely someone else has thought of doing this.

You mean the text at the top of the main menu? String file. The Rebellion logo at the bottom of the main menu is a texture file.

I'm on Stardock's IRC most days, you can pick my brain on entity issues if you send me a pm there.

In Rebellion they changed the name and SoundMusic.Sounddata reference.  Re-name your new main menu track to "Rebellion Title.ogg" or change the "MUSIC_FRONTEND" entry in SoundMusic.Sounddata to what your song file is named.

Purely from research, correct. However, you could make the research unlock a passive ability in the 5th slot of each capitalship, which can then give max HP & shield, weapon damage increases, etc.

Is culture rate on starbases affected by culture rate increase research?