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Discussion, Suggestions & Feedback / Re: Disappearing Fleet?
« on: July 08, 2019, 11:47:24 PM »
Doesn't TR have off-map planets used for scripting? Hate to think they go there.
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Imperial Civil War Tech Support / Re: Looking for XMLs for these items
« on: June 22, 2019, 02:50:52 PM »
SpecialStructures_Underworld.xml
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Discussion, Suggestions & Feedback / Re: Just finished a difficult playthrough...
« on: May 25, 2019, 05:33:58 PM »
I guess it's for the best you did your Yevetha playthrough now rather than later... 
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Imperial Civil War Community Mods / Re: Trying to Mod in the TR revamp: Q&A
« on: April 19, 2019, 01:05:07 AM »
Your issue is that you have a unit named "Mandalore" as well as the planet. Actually, you have two units named "Mandalore". You can't have two things with the same name or the game gets confused and loads only the last one it reads in. If you change the heroes to "Mandalore_The_Fearless" and "Mandalore_The_Fearless_Saber" or whatever, the game will display planet Mandalore properly. This means you will need to rename the units in all references to them, particularly in New_Republic_Heroes.xml and New_Republic_Space_Units.xml .
I also see Planet [MISSING] near Coruscant. What's that one supposed to be named? Or, rather, what's the planet's tag named (and which .XML file is it in)?
I also see Planet [MISSING] near Coruscant. What's that one supposed to be named? Or, rather, what's the planet's tag named (and which .XML file is it in)?
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Imperial Civil War Community Mods / Re: Trying to Mod in the TR revamp: Q&A
« on: April 18, 2019, 12:02:10 AM »
It would be easier to give a conclusive answer if I had the entire Data folder, because then I could run your mod and see exactly what you're seeing. Here is what I did with your files:
I went into my C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\workshop\content\32470\1125571106\Data\XML\Conquests\Zsinj folder and renamed the existing "Campaigns_Zsinj.xml" to "x_Campaigns_Zsinj.xml". Then I pasted your version into that location. Likewise, I went to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\workshop\content\32470\1125571106\Data\XML and renamed the existing "Planets_Two.xml" to "x_Planets_Two.xml", placing your version in the directory.
Then, I simply booted up the game and chose to play as the New Republic in the Hunt for Zsinj era-progressive campaign. The attached screenshot is what I saw. I also ran the campaign as Zsinj and the planet appeared (though naturally I couldn't view description since it was too far away from my stuff). Now, I did notice that you didn't add the planet to the Greater Maldrood version of the campaign, so the planet did not appear for me when playing as the GM.
So, I guess my question to you is, how have you added these files to your version of the Data folder, what Galactic Conquest are you running, and what faction are you playing as?
I went into my C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\workshop\content\32470\1125571106\Data\XML\Conquests\Zsinj folder and renamed the existing "Campaigns_Zsinj.xml" to "x_Campaigns_Zsinj.xml". Then I pasted your version into that location. Likewise, I went to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\workshop\content\32470\1125571106\Data\XML and renamed the existing "Planets_Two.xml" to "x_Planets_Two.xml", placing your version in the directory.
Then, I simply booted up the game and chose to play as the New Republic in the Hunt for Zsinj era-progressive campaign. The attached screenshot is what I saw. I also ran the campaign as Zsinj and the planet appeared (though naturally I couldn't view description since it was too far away from my stuff). Now, I did notice that you didn't add the planet to the Greater Maldrood version of the campaign, so the planet did not appear for me when playing as the GM.
So, I guess my question to you is, how have you added these files to your version of the Data folder, what Galactic Conquest are you running, and what faction are you playing as?
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News & Updates / Re: AI Updates & New Cruel AI Setting | Thrawn's Revenge & Fall of the Republic News
« on: April 16, 2019, 08:49:04 PM »
I have. It's a fantastically in-depth resource and I can tell he knows what he's doing, but for a rank amateur such as myself it's a little light on examples. Like, I get the abstract concept of budgets, goals, etc. but I could really use some concrete examples. Something like "here is how you goose the AI into only building Acclamators" or "here is how you get the AI to remove corruption using a new unit that you add that ability to." Just a few basic object lessons in how to concretely manipulate the concepts laid out in the guide would be invaluable.
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News & Updates / Re: AI Updates & New Cruel AI Setting | Thrawn's Revenge & Fall of the Republic News
« on: April 16, 2019, 12:11:14 AM »
I would love for you or Evilbobthebob (or somebody) to provide tutorials or intros to EAW AI modding. I've been modding vanilla EAW for personal enjoyment for over a year now and I still have no idea how to get the AI to actually use certain heroes or activated galactic actions. The AI can't seem to figure out what to do with Mon Mothma or how to remove corruption without the planet changing hands. I'd also love to know more about how to affect the AI's fleet composition choices to see fewer ridiculous massive piles of Interdictors.
Maybe this kind of thing wouldn't be a good fit for a video series since it's awfully technical, but I swear I would put up money for someone who knows what they're doing to give a rundown on the general ins and outs of modifying the EAW AI behaviors. I don't have unlimited funds, but could you consider what a ballpark estimate might be to make producing content for such a niche topic worth your while?
In general, it would be great if you were to do more of the EAW mod tutorial videos. I continue to stand in awe of the fact that Thrawn's Revenge has so many actually functional, playable factions. A video where you show how to add a new faction that the AI can use (and what it takes to make it playable) would be amazing. But now I'm really dreaming...
Maybe this kind of thing wouldn't be a good fit for a video series since it's awfully technical, but I swear I would put up money for someone who knows what they're doing to give a rundown on the general ins and outs of modifying the EAW AI behaviors. I don't have unlimited funds, but could you consider what a ballpark estimate might be to make producing content for such a niche topic worth your while?
In general, it would be great if you were to do more of the EAW mod tutorial videos. I continue to stand in awe of the fact that Thrawn's Revenge has so many actually functional, playable factions. A video where you show how to add a new faction that the AI can use (and what it takes to make it playable) would be amazing. But now I'm really dreaming...
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Empire at War and Forces of Corruption / Re: Zann Consortium-Overpowered?
« on: March 24, 2019, 01:05:07 PM »
If you're looking for a simple balance patch for a mostly vanilla FoC experience, I've had good experiences with this:
FoC Balance Patch [UNOFFICIAL]
FoC Balance Patch [UNOFFICIAL]
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Discussion, Suggestions & Feedback / Re: Would there be any way to implement priority targeting for units?
« on: January 07, 2019, 12:48:36 AM »
Thread necro...
What if you modify SpaceUnitTargetingPriorities.xml for the desired Priority_Set - in this case "Capital" - to entirely remove Fighters and Bombers? Then the AI will literally never waste shots on craft it can't possibly hit.
Obviously you would not want to modify the "Capital" Priority_Set if there are capital ships with anti-starfighter batteries, but such ships should probably use a different Priority_Set anyway.
What if you modify SpaceUnitTargetingPriorities.xml for the desired Priority_Set - in this case "Capital" - to entirely remove Fighters and Bombers? Then the AI will literally never waste shots on craft it can't possibly hit.
Obviously you would not want to modify the "Capital" Priority_Set if there are capital ships with anti-starfighter batteries, but such ships should probably use a different Priority_Set anyway.
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Discussion, Suggestions & Feedback / Re: GM FTGU Strat?
« on: December 21, 2018, 04:48:50 PM »
... or, actually, I found an alternative while playing around. It turns out that at the start of the game, Boba Fett can solo the entire Empire. Obviously you don't want him fighting the fleets, but he can wipe out the entire Imperial ground force and conquer all their starting planets, all by his lonesome, by roughly Week 8.
This just confirms what we all already knew: Boba Fett is the baddest mofo in the galaxy.
EDIT: Actually, Boba Fett can take out the entire Empire and Republic. He will do it for 3500 credits and he'll get it done in 27 weeks. What a guy.
This just confirms what we all already knew: Boba Fett is the baddest mofo in the galaxy.
EDIT: Actually, Boba Fett can take out the entire Empire and Republic. He will do it for 3500 credits and he'll get it done in 27 weeks. What a guy.
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Imperial Civil War Tech Support / Re: Changing Eras with Missing Imperial Leaders
« on: December 21, 2018, 10:04:51 AM »Yeah, to prevent crashing, the three main factions being the New Republic, the Empire of the Hand, and the Imperial Remnant, The devs had to place a planet for each of the three factions outside the galactic map. It had something to do with story scripting or something. I asked in an earlier thread as to why the Art of War GC wouldn't end with all planets captured, it's because of those 3 planets. The only possible place for the Imperial leader to spawn is on the IR planet outside the GC map (Which you can't access).Oh man, I thought that was just a bug. So there's really never a victory screen, huh... I guess you could think of that as some kind of commentary on the cyclical and ultimately futile nature of war if you were inclined to read deeper meaning into it.
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Discussion, Suggestions & Feedback / Re: GM FTGU Strat?
« on: December 20, 2018, 10:58:53 PM »
It's a pretty gnarly strategic situation, no denying. You're sandwiched between the NR and the Empire no matter which direction you expand, and you don't have many high income planets available early on. Securing them is another matter entirely.
The AI seems generally reluctant to go after the purple territories and you can use this to your advantage - leaving strategic buffer planets can save you ships you need to punch through defenses elsewhere.
CC VSDs are your best bet early on, and I recommend rushing for an SSD ASAP. If you can expand to the NE and push towards Mon Calamari, the Phindar-MonCal corridor is totally defensible and from there you can expand south into the self-contained southeast fork of the map. The trick there is preventing the Empire from getting all up in your face while you are busy with the NR.
The AI seems generally reluctant to go after the purple territories and you can use this to your advantage - leaving strategic buffer planets can save you ships you need to punch through defenses elsewhere.
CC VSDs are your best bet early on, and I recommend rushing for an SSD ASAP. If you can expand to the NE and push towards Mon Calamari, the Phindar-MonCal corridor is totally defensible and from there you can expand south into the self-contained southeast fork of the map. The trick there is preventing the Empire from getting all up in your face while you are busy with the NR.
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News & Updates / Re: [FotR] We Could Be Heroes: Republic Edition
« on: September 28, 2018, 10:18:03 AM »
I'm just here for the David Bowie reference.
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Discussion, Suggestions & Feedback / Re: New Units thought.
« on: June 13, 2018, 06:24:13 PM »All Seven Dark Jedi in one squad for PentastarSweet Georgia Brown.
Good luck with that one, Katarn.
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EaW and FoC Mods / Re: Coding the AI
« on: May 29, 2018, 01:51:01 PM »
Very short answer:
No, the top-level Goal tags are not hardcoded. The code inside the Goal tag matters a lot, both to the Goal itself and to other code that refers to the Goal.
Somewhat longer answer:
If you're interested in the AI, you should read this. You can create new goals with new top-level tags, but creating new goals by itself won't do anything for you. "Goals" are things the AI might like to do, but whether or not the AI will actually try to do them is governed by a "goalfunction" that links the goal to a perceptual equation. The perceptual equation is a way for the AI to evaluate the desirability of pursuing that specific goal at that specific moment. In your example, the goal "Corrupt_Planet" (AI_Goals_Underworld_Galactic.xml) is governed by the goalfunction also named "Corrupt_Planet" (AI_Goalset_Underworld_Galactic.xml) and the perceptual equation named "Should_Corrupt_Planet" (AI_Equations_Underworld_Galactic.xml). Once the AI has decided to pursue a Goal, it then uses a Plan to actually execute tasks in pursuit of that goal. The only Plan available to the AI in pursuit of the "Corrupt_Planet" goal is found in "AI_Plan_Underworld_DeploySaboteur.lua".
No, the top-level Goal tags are not hardcoded. The code inside the Goal tag matters a lot, both to the Goal itself and to other code that refers to the Goal.
Somewhat longer answer:
If you're interested in the AI, you should read this. You can create new goals with new top-level tags, but creating new goals by itself won't do anything for you. "Goals" are things the AI might like to do, but whether or not the AI will actually try to do them is governed by a "goalfunction" that links the goal to a perceptual equation. The perceptual equation is a way for the AI to evaluate the desirability of pursuing that specific goal at that specific moment. In your example, the goal "Corrupt_Planet" (AI_Goals_Underworld_Galactic.xml) is governed by the goalfunction also named "Corrupt_Planet" (AI_Goalset_Underworld_Galactic.xml) and the perceptual equation named "Should_Corrupt_Planet" (AI_Equations_Underworld_Galactic.xml). Once the AI has decided to pursue a Goal, it then uses a Plan to actually execute tasks in pursuit of that goal. The only Plan available to the AI in pursuit of the "Corrupt_Planet" goal is found in "AI_Plan_Underworld_DeploySaboteur.lua".
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Discussion, Suggestions & Feedback / Re: List of Mining Colonies
« on: May 28, 2018, 10:19:13 PM »
Yea, I know Thrawn's Revenge doesn't use the planetary ability icons much, but they would be really handy in this case... there's even an icon for mining colonies hidden in the commandbarcomponents.mtd that was left on the cutting room floor.
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Discussion, Suggestions & Feedback / Re: SSD's Unplayable?
« on: May 28, 2018, 09:51:50 PM »
I think the single biggest reason for the problems with SSD-size vessels in Thrawn's Revenge is that for some reason the team moved them to <Space_Layer> Capital </Space_Layer> instead of the original <Space_Layer> Super </Space_Layer> that the vanilla Executor was on. This means that the enormous SSD-size vessels have to pathfind around other capships such as ISDs and MC80s instead of just going "under" then. The <Layer_Z_Adjust>-1200.0</Layer_Z_Adjust> doesn't mean anything because regardless of where the vessel is rendered as being depthwise, the layer value is what actually determines its pathfinding.
The vanilla Executor also has
Custom_Hard_XExtent
Custom_Hard_YExtent
I think these also have something to do with pathfinding, because when I took them off for my mod the Executor just kind of spun around helplessly...
The vanilla Executor also has
Custom_Hard_XExtent
Custom_Hard_YExtent
I think these also have something to do with pathfinding, because when I took them off for my mod the Executor just kind of spun around helplessly...
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Discussion, Suggestions & Feedback / Re: Ground combat auto-resolve
« on: May 28, 2018, 09:23:47 PM »It would really be great to see something done to balance out turbolasers for this (and potentially some other units and buildings?), as right now if I play the invasion I can often not lose a single unit. However, when auto resolving it seems the enemy planet having ONLY turbolasers pretty much guarantees I will lost a huge number of units from even an overwhelmingly large ground force.
I've seen talk that there is some sort of "point" value assigned to units for auto-resolve, does anyone know of a way I could change that value for turbolaser installations? Ground combat is tedious and boring to actuall play IMO, and losing 90% of my huge army to a just turbolasers on nearly every ground attack is just as bad...
There is indeed a "point" value. The tag is named <AI_Combat_Power>. If you have the MEG file editor you can extract SPECIALSTRUCTURES.XML from Config.meg, edit it, and re-add it. I think the object you want to edit is "Template_Galactic_Turbolaser_Tower_Defenses". The AI Combat Power value is 1500 by default, which is pretty darn high for ground battles.
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Discussion, Suggestions & Feedback / Re: The AI underestimates static space defenses (Shipyard/Golan/Station)
« on: May 28, 2018, 02:50:07 PM »
This is something I'm also curious about. The way the AI assembles taskforces appears to be totally agnostic of the forces actually deployed to defend the target. If you look at ConquerOpponentPlan.lua, the space taskforce is defind as having "MinimumTotalSize" of 10 and "MinimumTotalForce" of 5000, but A) I don't know how either of these things are evaluated when adding units to the taskforce and B) I don't see anywhere that indicates the AI is going to send a bigger force at a more heavily defended target... until repeated failures on the ConquerOpponentPlan cause the contrast to be dialed up hard enough to trigger CrushPlan.lua, which has a MinimumTotalSize of 20 and MinimumTotalForce of 10000.
This here is the single most comprehensive overview I know of of how the EAW AI works, but even this doesn't go very far into implementation. I think one of the mod team will have to offer an actual explanation of how the AI counts units towards task force TotalSize/TotalForce values, and whether those values are in any way affected by what you've got in orbit.
This here is the single most comprehensive overview I know of of how the EAW AI works, but even this doesn't go very far into implementation. I think one of the mod team will have to offer an actual explanation of how the AI counts units towards task force TotalSize/TotalForce values, and whether those values are in any way affected by what you've got in orbit.
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EaW and FoC Mods / Re: Autoresolve and AI_Combat_Power
« on: March 01, 2018, 10:56:18 PM »
So, a follow-up for posterity... The <damage> tag does not have anything to do with auto-resolve. Instead, it has an effect on whether or not a unit can be used properly by the AI. I realized this when I pulled the <damage> tags off all my spaceships and suddenly the AI got stupid - there's a programmer comment in uniqueunits.xml on the Swamp_Speeder, of all places, that points to the culprit directly:
So, that's one case of a mysterious, apparently useless tag's function solved.
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<!-- Obsolete, but required for"combatant" behavior, which lets the AI use a unit -->
So, that's one case of a mysterious, apparently useless tag's function solved.
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