Space Opera Mod WIP

[Fyron]

Its a new problem. The income from those abilities is never reported, positive or negative. It is added, just not tallied anywhere.

[Puke]

really? i thought it was a problem as far back as the original P&N mod that had resource ships. This is just a slightly different variation on the same problem.

[Suicide Junkie]

Those resource ships were made before the ability we are talking about was added to the game.

The original P&N is ancient... 2001 or so.
Those resource ships used negative maintenance to gather resources, and that does show up in the maintenance column of your budget

[Puke]

in any event, it can be made to show up if he uses negative resource generation, instead of point generation.

Then the decision is between setting all rads production to 100%, or having varied rads production on different planets impact the energy cost of local facilities. I think its fine for it to be variable, as it reflects local economies. facilities on richer worlds cost more. cheaper labor is available on poorer worlds.

[Fyron]

Negative resource generation abilities do not work. Only point generation and maintenance modifier (for ships) accepts negatives.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

.....But it doesn't show up? Ah well. I guess I'll have to point out to people to keep the facility costs tallied somewhere, so they're not surprised when their Credit rating suddenly falls to 0 with an apparent income of 4000.

[Puke]

yes it does. i used it in grit-tech, and it worked fine. facilities consumed organics.

[Fyron]

yes it does. i used it in grit-tech, and it worked fine. facilities consumed organics.

Hmm... I recall that not working when I tested it, but it does seem to work now (for negative Resource Generation - Minerals). And it is tallied. Display of negative "Generate Points Minerals" is buggered still, but display of negative "Resource Generation - Minerals" works fine. Excellent! Won't help when giving maintenance to units, but works fine for facilities.

Hmm... sticking this on a component now makes an error pop up about being unable to load Components.txt:

Ability 2 Type := Resource Generation - Minerals
Ability 2 Descr := Mines -10000 minerals each turn.
Ability 2 Val 1 := -10000
Ability 2 Val 2 := 0

But if it is positive, it can load the file. Curious.

[Puke]

im pretty sure resource generation still does not work on components. thus, the new points generation abilities.

[Fyron]

I know it doesn't work, but I have never seen SE4 refuse to load Components.txt due to a negative value on such an ability.