Ship Design Question

[Gandalph]

I have designed a new ship for exploration in the mod I am working on and I get errors when testing in game along the lines of "unknown type in blahblah_AI_designcreation.txt" Is there a limitation to ship type or is there a work around?

[Jmenschenfresser]

At present you can only use the ships types that exist in the ship type file in the data folder.

Ran into the same problem. Not sure why there is a moddable file that we can't change, but go figure. Won't even work if you add new types to this file. Can only use existing.

Who knows, maybe the game doesn't even use this file yet, but Last I asked, this is going to change in the next patch.

[Suicide Junkie]

Default design types.

The AIs are only coded to recognize the default unmodded types.

Adding extra types is convenient for the human players, however.

[PsychoTechFreak]

see Atraikus Design Creation cheat sheet

[Rollo]

A good type to choose for a scout ship is the "attack base". They do not get included into fleets and exlore quite well. Just make sure that you change the min. and max. size for the design accordingly.

Rollo

[Gandalph]

Not being able to add a design kind of limits ability to mod. That kinda sux.

Thanks Rollo, I will try that.