Limiting planets to 1 facility (for SE2-ism mod)

Ed Kolis · #1 December 26th, 2004, 09:58 PM

So I was trying to make that SE2-ism mod I may have mentioned, and since SE2 doesn't have the concept of facilities, I just limited planets to 1 generic "do-everything" facility... However, this seems to cause some problems during galaxy generation, as at 42% through the game setup process, I got an access violation... I suppose this is because of the homeworld requirements? I gave larger planets more facility space and that seemed to help (a bit - now it gets to 43%

), though now that means homeworlds will be much more powerful than usual since no other planets can have multiple facilities (the facility includes a spaceyard ability

)

I did also reduce the cargo storage of planets to zero; could that have any effect on anything?

geoschmo · #2 December 26th, 2004, 11:17 PM

The homeworld facility requirements is a top down list. It won't put more facilities on a planet then the planet can hold. If you have the sector type file setup so the planets have one facility space, then your homeworlds will have one facility, the first one on the list. There is nothing "wrong" with that change alone. I've made mods that restricted teh number of facility spots and had no poblems. Whatever is causing your error is something else. It might be the cargo thing. I've never tried setting cargo space to zero. Doesn't seem like that would be a problem though. Probably yo've made some other change by accident that's causing the error.

Ed Kolis · #3 December 27th, 2004, 02:42 AM

Well, it was SOMETHING in planetsize.txt... replacing the one I had with the stock one fixed things...

edit: Aha, it was the fact that I removed ringworlds and sphereworlds! Apparently the game requires those entries to be in place...

Alneyan · #4 December 27th, 2004, 08:02 AM

Well, did you remove the Ringworld and Sphereworld Generators in components? These two entries require a constructed planet (1 and 2 respectively), so I guess it would be a problem if you kept them while removing the constructed planets.

Ed Kolis · #5 December 27th, 2004, 12:52 PM

I tried that but the game crashed anyway...

Ed Kolis · #6 December 29th, 2004, 07:18 PM

All right, Ringworlds and Sphereworlds will just be *unresearchable*

Now, how come I can't get the game to start me with Tech Level 20 on a high tech start??? It always starts on level 1... I even tried putting the colony techs back in so the game would not default Tech Level to 1 even though it's supposed to start higher...