AI help needed (HELP ME PLEASE)

Atrocities · #1 October 29th, 2003, 04:29 AM

I have two Ai's that will not design colony ships until around turn 21. I have racked my mind over the issue but can not explain it.

I copied over other AI design files and still the two races won't design colony ships until turn 21.

This is what I did to test this.

I used only the two offending races, 5k points.
I set the research and design ministers to auto and processed the turns.

From what I can tell it is not a research issue.

Both the Federation and Romulans both designed a colony ship on turn 21.

They were both researching warp technology 1, but neither had completed it. They were in the middle of researching it and were only researching one thing at a time.

All races start the game with warp engine 1, but three races have speciality engines. The Borg, The Federation, and the Romulans. Only the Borg are set up to use their own engines from game start. The other two races, the Federation and the Romulans, are not designed to use anything except the standard engines until later.

When both design colony ships they are only using the standard warp engine 1 technology. So I could not establish a conflict between the two technologies.

The thing is kinda werd is that the Federation will design other ships from the start of the game that use the warp engine 1, but will not design a colony ship.

The Romulans will not design crap until the colony ship has been designed.

Both races have the same identical design file as all of the other races.

I honestly don't get what the problem is, or how to fix it.

TNZ · #2 October 29th, 2003, 04:48 AM

The Federation and Romulan Colony Ships in the vehicle size data file have a tonnage size of 550( Fed), 520(Rom). The Borg Colony Ship has a tonnage size of 500. If you changed the tonnage sizes of the Federation and Romulan Colony Ships to 500 tonnage the problem seems to go away.

Atrocities · #3 October 29th, 2003, 04:58 AM

Oh it can't possibly be that fricking easy.... BRB

Atrocities · #4 October 29th, 2003, 05:11 AM

Yup, that fixed it up right now man. Thanks.

Thanks a lot.

I can't believe it was so simple too.

Atrocities · #5 October 29th, 2003, 05:46 AM

Need more help.

The Romulans will not deaign any units of any kind despite having the ability to do so.

I copied over the files from the Klingons to see if I could get them to desing weapon platforms, mines, satellites, but no deal.

I can not figure out this simple problem as to why the Romumlans do not wish to design units. Help is much needed.

Fyron · #6 October 29th, 2003, 06:54 AM

You don't need to change the tonnage of the ships... just change the max tonnages that the AIs will build before turn X in the AI Settings file.