AI_General problem...

[Trachmyr]

Ok, my space monsters are suppose to choose "Emotionless" if they are "randomly" generated... but it's not being selected. I double-checked the file to make sure there was no "stupid-mistakes" (extra spaces, wrong numbers, etc.), but it's ok...

So, does anyone know of a not-so-obvious problem that can cause this?

If it's important, I generated the game(s) using "quick-start".

Any help will be appreciated!

[Suicide Junkie]

Capitalization is important, and it must be spelled the same as the "name" entry in racialtraits.txt

Also, be sure that you're not going over the racial point limit; emotionless is 3000 points.

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[Trachmyr]

Well it wasn't capitalization...

What it was is a little quirk of AI_General.txt, it select one advanced trait of any point cost OR a combination of traits totaling less than or equal to the racial point limit... but not considering any "bounus" points from low racial charistics

The space monsters take -50% on mining/refining, -35% on happiness (and +10% reproduction)... this gives enough points for emotionless(3K)/Natural Merchants(1K)/Space monster(0)... but it won't put emotionless in because of this quirk! (If I switch the order to put emotionless at the top of the list, It'll put in emotionless but not the other two, even though one costs 0 points! Thus it must be a limit of 1 trait of any amount OR a number of traits <= racial points)...

Kind of annoying, I've got to redo their AI_general, cultures.txt to fix it (removing emotionless, adding happiness +)

Oh, well...

Before doing all that, try not spending every single racial point! It may be that it stops adding specials when you hit zero.

[Trachmyr]

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Originally posted by LCC:
Before doing all that, try not spending every single racial point! It may be that it stops adding specials when you hit zero.

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It's not that I'm over points, it'll work just fine if I use an .emp file with the EXACT same stuff, just not when the race is randomly generated through the AI_General.txt file (even though it uses the exact same settings)

I don't see any other way around it... I need the Space Monsters to have NATURAL MERCHANTS and EMOTIONLESS, that's 4k no matter how you slice it. My only recourse is to make them immune to unhappiness through a large happiness bonus (either with culture or a facility, but if I use a facility that makes them even more abusable if the planet is captured!)

[This message has been edited by Trachmyr (edited 11 July 2001).]

What I meant was on the ai general file specify a list of traits which has 10 or 25 points left unused. The problem may be that YOU can add a zero cost trait in edit empire at point balance zero, but the AI is not that smart...