You appear to have a Pre-diplomacy 1.3x English.str. These entries map back to StringInfo's that start with "IDS_TAUNT_TECH_AllianceAcceptMetalPact".

Updating your English.str with the Diplomacy 1.31 content and adding your new String entries should resolve this particular issue.

Yeah, just realized that...  Thanks anyways though 

I have got a really simple question but I couldn't find a solution for it anywhere on the forum so I figured I should post it anyway:

I have modded a Capital ship's .entity file and it works the way it should, but it works in the Original Sins game only. I couldn't find any capital ship entity files in the diplomacy folder, and that happens to be the game I want the modified file to work in...

Any help would be greatly appreciated

FYI: I have put the modified entity file both in the modding directory of the Original Sins game and in the one of Diplomacy, so don't ask me if I know how to enable mods...

Your issue is the proper CapitalShip file is included in Entrenchment. The way the game works for Diplomacy is it first looks for the referenced file in the Diplomacy/GameInfo folder. If it doesn't find it there it then looks in the Entrenchment/GameInfo folder. Finally it looks in the root GameInfo folder if it wasn't found in the previous two.

If you are modding both Sins and it's expansions, you will need to take special care to see if the file was modified in either Entrenchment or Diplomacy or mini-dumps may result do to structure changes introduced with the expansions.

looks like my "bug" might be a feature.... I'll probably end up playing around with it a little bit more, but what you said makes sense and lines up with what i've done so far.

thanks for the help and quick reply

You cannot apply a buff to individual SC. You have to buff the entire squadron.

Correct?

Anyone else who can support me?

To clarify, the main thing with strikecraft is that you cannot apply the buff to itself. This is because technically the ability is owned by the squad entity, which doesn't physically exist. The only way to buff the individual fighters in a specific squadron is to give an ability ot the carrier which applies a buff to linked squadrons (see Sova's heavy strikecraft).

That said there are additional apply buff types that will work besides simple area of effect, though they tend to work in the same way (for example apply buff to target at orbit body).

Remember you are really working with the squadron, not the fighters themselves. As squadrons do not have ability points travel effects cannot be used.

Well as mentioned putting an ability on the carrier will always work. If that's not an option though you'll have to be more creative. It can certainly be done, just not with the normal methods you use with other entities.

I did, but the descriptions of them wasn't terribly clear.

Would it be possible to make an ability easily then to simply ramp up the damage of the ships themselves for a short while then?

Well, eventually all factions, and yes vanilla.  For now, I'm just working on TEC.

My modding team came up with an ability that might do what you want. We have an ability that spawns fighters with a decreased hit % buff.

The trick is to have a buff that does two things: spawn the fighter squadran and also spawn a buff to radius for fighters only.

buffInstantActionType "ApplyBuffToTargetsInRadius"
	instantActionTriggerType "OnDelay"
	delayTime 0.500000
	buffType "BuffStealthFighter"
	targetFilter
		numOwnerships 1
		ownership "Player"
		numObjects 1
		object "Fighter"
		numSpaces 1
		space "Normal"
		numConstraints 0
	range
		Level:0 50.000000

It works most of the time. Occasionally a spawned fighter might be outside of the radius. To prevent normal fighters from getting the ability we limit the number of fighters it can apply to in the buff. Overall it gets the job done.

edited to remove code box, now I know why no one uses it  

@Goa: Well, currently, I have the supremacy fighter loaded up with an AVL autocannon and an AL missile launcher.  I was originally thinking of doing something similar to Phase Missile Swarm, but I wasn't aware you couldn't do travel effects with squads...

Since I already have a rocket on it and I can't do a travel ability, I was just wondering if I could do something instead to temporarily boost their power.  And I'm thinking of having the supremacy fighter being launched from capital carriers only, so that causes a problem with the carrier creating the buff...  For now this will be an independent mod, but I've got a few other things in the pipes and completed in addition to the researchable caps that'll hopefully all get thrown together some day into a functioning mod.

And the flares I want to be an active ability of the squads themselves where it drastically temporarily decreases the likelihood of getting shot.  This of course being the TEC version.  I might just do a passive "Phase Dodging" ability or something for the Vasari fighter when I finally get around to it, but I really do want flares of some kind for the TEC.

And is there really no way to make a squad directly buff a member of that squad? 

@philo: Do you mean the buff only stays active on, say, 6 SC at a time so it would rebuff them if a replacement fighter was built for one of the original six that got blown up?

@Anybody: I really am not familiar with what mechanisms the game currently uses to buff SC.  Obviously, there are things that are simple like flak burst where they simply do damage, but for an ability that is actively used by the squad itself, I don't know how to do that I guess...

So, if I were to give the something like incendiary shells I wouldn't have to give it to the carrier?  I could just give it straight to the squad and all the fighters would be capable of it?

And I know its possible...  DS has its fighters with active abilities...

I just tried making a variant of flak burst as the ability of the squad, but it MD'd as well...