Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Sabranan

Ah, thanks for that. It was actually limited to 100, even though it was saying 30. At some point I must have decided to limit the race number (and by extension the biases) to 100 but I can't remember why, I remember once upon a time it was limited to 50 but I can't find documentation to suggest an arbitrary limit at the moment. I'll push a revision to fix that bug and set it to say 500 for now.

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ORIGINAL: rjord1
Keep in mind ships can only go from 0 to 50 so if you allow number of races and biases to be over 50 that your tool does not allow ships to be 51 or more. With 112 races I have many races sharing common ship sets.

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ORIGINAL: Sabranan

Loading the vanilla race files only generates one validation error, which is the caution value for the Atuuk. As far as I can tell the check is correct... Can you send me a log or paste the input log here so I can have a look at what's going on?

I do agree about the default values though, I've set the character appearance chance defaults to 1 now instead of 0.

Beginning data validation on Race Information
Invalid caution value "40" found in Race Information record 1) Atuuk, value changed to "50"
Data validation on Race Information complete, found and corrected 1 values

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The current line contains invalid data in the C:\Matrix Games\Distant Worlds Universe\Customization\Darkverse\races\ackdarian.txt file, the "CharacterRandomAppearanceChanceIntelligenceAgen" variable is not recognised. It will be dropped if the races are outputted.

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My character files work fine, no problems for years, this comes up (along with 216 similar messages for the other files)

Invalid race override value "aritri" found in Characters record 0) Dekshi Shokia of race "Aritri", value changed to "Aritri"

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No problem with the resources either and this comes up.

Invalid location type value "0" found in Resources record 44) Kreil Pebble, value changed to "2"

The line in the resources file reads: (no problem with that either, works fine in game)

44, Kreil Pebble,44,8.0,2,0, N, N,0,0,0,11,0.156,0.4,0.8,

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You're missing a "T" at the end of that variable so that's why the tool doesn't recognize it.

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You're right that's not really an error, but best practise is to maintain the same case. Although it'll generate a lot of data validation warnings, they are just warnings. As long as you can see that the value it's changed them to is correct, you can safely ignore them.

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There is a problem with this resource line, you've set the location type to planet/moon and the subtype to argon. I figured people are more likely to be accurate with the sub-type, so it's setting the type to match. I imagine the in-game behaviour would be that this resource just doesn't spawn and empires only get it when they get a random event saying "Kreil Pebble discovered on colony X".

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It picks up on capitalization? That did make me smile. I shall use capitals sir. Fixed

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Regards the hidden victory condition values, try 60 through to 70, they are the pirate ones, 70 is still the same as 59, I can only presume the others are still there as I still use 70 for one of my races.

PROJECT			;425, Optimal Jamming, 10,11,      2, 14, 0, 40.0, 
COMPONENTS		;164
PARENTS			;424, N

Invalid condition 2 value value "50" found in Race Information record 1) Aritri, value changed to "0"
Invalid condition 3 value value "50" found in Race Information record 1) Aritri, value changed to "0"
Invalid condition 4 value value "50" found in Race Information record 1) Aritri, value changed to "0"
Invalid caution value "40" found in Race Information record 2) Atuuk, value changed to "50"
Invalid condition 1 type value "70" found in Race Information record 20) Maerzi, value changed to "0"
Invalid condition 1 value value "100" found in Race Information record 26) Negharu, value changed to "0"
Invalid condition 1 additional data value "2" found in Race Information record 26) Negharu, value changed to "0"
Invalid condition 2 value value "100" found in Race Information record 26) Negharu, value changed to "0"
Invalid condition 3 value value "100" found in Race Information record 26) Negharu, value changed to "0"
Invalid condition 4 value value "100" found in Race Information record 26) Negharu, value changed to "0"
Data validation on Race Information complete, found and corrected 10 values

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ORIGINAL: rjord1

You indicated yesterday that you had pushed through an update to the tool.

Just a question...... where is the latest version of your tool. I had a look on the tool and dont see an update button .The attachment on your first post last modified in February has the files with a last modified date of 15th February.

Should I be downloading the tool from somewhere else?

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ORIGINAL: Darkspire
These on the other hand are somewhat confusing, could really do with a line number within the race file to show where the error is as I am none to sure where 'record #' is, the only one that is quite clear is the Maerzi one, that I will change to 59 although 70 is valid until you decide whether to update with the new victory conditions.

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Invalid condition 2 value value "50" found in Race Information record 1) Aritri, value changed to "0"

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Just a word on the victory conditions from 60-70, they are for a pirate race, you can select if a race is a normal or pirate empire from the race file, adding those victory conditions to a pirate race were meant to be so a race could have been both a normal empire and pirate, bit fuzzy on memory as it was a while ago but I seem to remember discussing the idea that a race would have its own folder like the design templates with a pirate folder inside it so that the two were separated, as it is now you can need to make a separate race for a pirate unfortunately.

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Any chance of adding an option to send the input info to a text file on desktop?

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ORIGINAL: darkriot

Nice work on this tool! The validation it does is great!
I have noticed using this tool that there was a mistake in the modding guide that your tool is doing. For targeting components and counter measures they both use value 2 and not 1 as stated in the guide. After validating the research and component files both counter measures and targeting had 0% bonus.

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ORIGINAL: Sabranan

Ok, just pushed 1.0.15.4.

That sorts the data validation issues that darkriot brought up, includes a (very) simple test to see if the tool can hook up to my NAS (for log reporting or updates) and also includes a button to write the contents of the input/output log on to an rtf file on your desktop.

And the OP is updated with this version, just in case anyone is having trouble with the updates. You should be able to use the tester to trigger a connection attempt and configure your firewall appropriately.

Whew!

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ORIGINAL: Sabranan

I'm assuming the research project you're quoting is from vanilla? If so the component improvement line would be:

COMPONENT IMPROVEMENTS ;90, 5, 35, 20, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,

But the vanilla project definitely uses 20% as the bonus, and doesn't seem to use the 35 value at all.

darkriot reported this a few posts up. Turns out that despite what the modding guide and the text files say, for the scanner jammer, fleet countermeasures and fleet targeting systems it actually uses value 2 as the % effectiveness.