Modding QuadrantTypes.txt question

geoschmo · #1 December 19th, 2005, 03:07 PM

I don't see this answered in the FAQ or the modding tutorial, maybe someone else has run into this and can confirm it for me.

I'm trying to mod a quadrant type with more than 100 system types, and it doesn't seem to want to let me. When add the 101st system type to the quadrantypes file it stops loading into the game or the map editor.

It's just a little odd because my expeience with SE4 is that the cutoffs are usually numbers like 99 or 999 when you have to add another digit, or 255 or something like that that has some kind of computary reason. 100 seems like kind of an arbitrary number for a hard coded limit, and I haven't run into too many of those before when modding the game.

Anybody else try modding more than 100 systemtypes before and run into this?

geoschmo · #2 December 19th, 2005, 03:18 PM

Ok, posting the data files. The quadrantype is currently set to 101 system types. If I set it to 100 it will load, but when it's set to 101 it won't load for some reason.

Captain Kwok · #3 December 19th, 2005, 03:37 PM

I have 100 quadrant types in my Space Food Empires mod, but haven't tried 101 - perhaps Fyron can shed some light on this, I'm sure FQM Deluxe has more than 100 quadrant types...

Fyron · #4 December 19th, 2005, 03:49 PM

We seem to have determined that SE4 will allow up to 300 system types in a quadrant. It crashes rather ungracefully upon hitting "new game" wih 301 system types in a system.

Strategia_In_Ultima · #5 December 19th, 2005, 05:44 PM

Totally unrelated question- How the hell do you get your name to appear in black? I have seen at least one person with a black name who was not a moderator, so how come you have a black name?

Fyron · #6 December 19th, 2005, 06:05 PM

Who's name is black that is not a moderator?

=0=

We emailed the issue to Aaron and he says it is now fixed for the next patch...

Strategia_In_Ultima · #7 December 19th, 2005, 06:17 PM

Gandalf Parker, IIRC.

Ragnarok · #8 December 19th, 2005, 07:16 PM

Quote:

Strategia_In_Ultima said:
Gandalf Parker, IIRC.

If I am not mistaken Gandalf Parker is part of Shrapnel. I forget what it is exactly he does for them. I could be mistaken though.

Or...

He may not be a mod in this particular forum, but perhaps he is elsewhere?

Fyron · #9 December 19th, 2005, 07:22 PM

He is a moderator for Dominions forums.

geoschmo · #10 December 19th, 2005, 08:32 PM

I never noticed my name was a different color.