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ORIGINAL: paraboxx_slith

Ok that explains what you wanted to achieve with it. What I still don't know is if I have any disadvantages vs the AI if I ignore the feature while it is active. I think the docs could use some hint if the AI is using infrastructure spending and also if there is any automation for my own empire for it. Because if AI uses it and I don't I will fall behind. Right?

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ORIGINAL: Smellfungus

Hi Roger, thanks for your mod, you've done an excellent job! I've had a number of issues I've mostly managed to resolve myself, although I've now lost ctrl+p functionality. I get notifications that spies have been captured and ransomed, but tbe dialogue just doesn't open. Unfortunately, I don't know which change precipitated this or if it's unconnected to my fixes. I believe it may be something to do with turning off gravity wells (which mostly fixed my issue of intermittent 3-5 second freezing to my surprise as it happened even when paused and/or menus were open). I'm pretty much stumped now. Any other info that might help to diagnose the issue?

Also, if playing without Bacon World then only fighters are produced by AI. Doesn't affect me but thought it worth mentioning.

Edit: One other thing - occasionally !spy stops working. It's just happened to me now, it may be to do with alt+tab from full screen, though I don't see why. That being said it seems all keyboard controls only respect left ctrl, not right. I doubt this is intentional.

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ORIGINAL: RogerBacon


Is your keybord setting set for English/ US localization? I just found out that users in countries where they use the dot like we use the comma in numbers were getting totally screwed when the BaconSettings were read in. It might affect your right alt, ctrl keys as well. I use the right keys often since I am left handed and use the mouse in my left hand.

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ORIGINAL: RogerBacon

Hi. I'm gald you are enjoying the mod. A few thoughts based on issues previous posters have mentioned...

Is your keybord setting set for English/ US localization? I just found out that users in countries where they use the dot like we use the comma in numbers were getting totally screwed when the BaconSettings were read in. It might affect your right alt, ctrl keys as well. I use the right keys often since I am left handed and use the mouse in my left hand.

The most common issue for the prison form appearing to not open is because its already open and BEHIND the game window. This can happen when you open in and the game is not paused and then the game pops up a notification which brings focus back to the main window. Try using alt-tab to see if the prison form is open and then bring it to the front.

Regardless of whether or not you have added bomber bays the AI will always use a 50/50 split of fighters and bombers.

If !spy is not sending a spy out it could be because your setting for % of spies to keep on counter-iontel is too high. Or it could be because none of your available spies has the espionage skill.

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ORIGINAL: Smellfungus
Since I got everything set up correctly going back to double check will be painful, but I know my auto designed carriers only ever held fighters so I assumed that AI empires only had fighters, too. I read somewhere that I'd need to manually update all the default designs to include bomber bays for the AI to use them, is that not the case?

Edit: !spy is working again for no known reason, and it's targeting Ancient Guardians. That kind of needs to not happen.

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This is a factor in determining ship purchase price. Defaults are 5.0 and 2.5 for pirates. It will not affect maintenance costs.

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ORIGINAL: Kadaban

Hey Roger. Really like your mod, but sadly I'm having a bit of a problem with it as well.

First thing: shipMarkupFactor
The description states that

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This is a factor in determining ship purchase price. Defaults are 5.0 and 2.5 for pirates. It will not affect maintenance costs.

Well, thing is: it does modify maintenance costs. As I only just registered and can't post links I have to describe the situation. I have started the same mod pack (bacon, retreatue, das chrome - it's linked in the mod forum) once with 1x markup and then with 10x markup. The ship (Escort, size 233, standard design that came with the mod) with the same design had the purchase cost correctly scaled according to the markup value (from 452 to 4518 - rounding error I assume) , but the maintenance increases as well (from 259 to 910 which isn't 10x).
Is that working as intended and the description in the config is just wrong? I'd love to increase the shipmarkup for purchases but as I play pirate games as well, there's no way I can handle the increased maintenance at the start where you're grasping for every straw.

Second thing: Gravity wells
They are a good idea and I like the added complexity they bring, but they introduce a very weird bug when enabled. A "good bunch" (feels like 20%) are sometimes going nuts with the calculations to escape said gravity well and aim for 0,0 in the galaxy map. I know this has ben brought up before, but in the games I played it even happened with constructors that are currently immobile while building something. Also, and that's why I said "nuts", when this happens the FPS usually drops to an abysmally low 5-10 FPS. Sadly this also happens without the gravity well enabled (I had to disable it or a "whole" fleet with 50 ships would freeze the game for minutes) but at a far lower rate.

Third thing: Build order screen only counts non state ships
When I open the build order screen and look at the amount of ships and the recommendations (not really caring about the recommendations) the game only counts the non state ships. In my current game I have 13 gas mining ships but only 1 shows up in there and I only have 1 of them as a real non state ship which I have no control over. While I like being able to command around them manually, this feels weird and having to mark them all in the ships and bases screen just to count them is a bit tedious.

Last little thing: When you start the game with your modified exe it pops up the mod reminder twice. Can you reduce it to once or at least make the message nonmodal so the game at boots up while displaying the message? I sure as hell don't want to derive you of your work.

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ORIGINAL: RogerBacon
2 The ships shouldn't actually GO to 0,0 but when inactive (like a construction ship building something and waiting for supplies its short of) it will draw the lines pointing to 0,0. The slowness is tied to the range circles. If you turn off range circles it doesn't show the vector lines when zoomed all the way in and that should help a lot. That's why range circles used to default to off.

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ORIGINAL: Kadaban

Hey Roger. Really like your mod, but sadly I'm having a bit of a problem with it as well.


Third thing: Build order screen only counts non state ships
When I open the build order screen and look at the amount of ships and the recommendations (not really caring about the recommendations) the game only counts the non state ships. In my current game I have 13 gas mining ships but only 1 shows up in there and I only have 1 of them as a real non state ship which I have no control over. While I like being able to command around them manually, this feels weird and having to mark them all in the ships and bases screen just to count them is a bit tedious.

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ORIGINAL: RogerBacon
I've modified that screen to now count both private and state versions of the ships in your empire. It will be in the next version.

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ORIGINAL: RogerBacon
Also, I've fixed a bug that would cause the prison form to not open if one of your spies was being held by an empire that you wipe out.

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at DistantWorlds.Types.Empire.PerformIntelligenceMissions()
   at DistantWorlds.Types.Empire.DoTasks()
   at DistantWorlds.Main.method_96(Object object_7)

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ORIGINAL: sotthata

Roger,

Would it be possible to add a mechanic similar to the colony naming where ships won't refit? The use-case is where you have a fleet with salvaged alien tech ships that are potentially more powerful than your ships. What I end up having to do is split the fleet, send my designs for refit, and then recombine them after the refit completes. The implementation could be something like ships with names that start with a # are issued a refuel order if a fleet refit order is given.

Would this be useful for others than just me? :P

Cheers.

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ORIGINAL: Omnius

RogerBacon,
Looks like quite an impressive mod. I'm just getting into this fine space game and have created a custom game on a large 15 x 15 sector map with 1,400 planets. I'm controlling everything manually, especially my military ships and fleets. I'm still early into the game with about 160 ships split into 30 fleets, problem is I can't create any more New Fleets as that option no longer shows up on my Join Fleet screen. I played official Shakturi Dominion scenario and let the AI control everything and ended up with 100 Fleets for over 2,000 ships. I couldn't create any more new ones but having 100 fleets certainly helped control so many ships. Now that I'm learning and enjoying playing everything manually I'm a tad worried about my 30 fleet limit in my current custom game. I've looked through all of the options and the game editor and find nothing that controls the number of fleets we can have, but there indeed seems to be something limiting fleet numbers. When I Ctrl-right click to Join Fleet I no longer see the option to create a New Fleet.


Just wondering if your Bacon Mod has any way of helping us manage the number of fleets we can have in a game? I've looked all over and can't find anything ingame that would do this. I'm hoping as I increase the number of ships I'll see an increase in the number of fleets I can build.

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ORIGINAL: Omnius

RogerBacon,
Thanks for the help on the ships and bases screen being the best place to add new fleets. Right now I'm learning the base game before trying some of the mods. I hope that this mod will be compatible with the Star Wars one.

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Did you place a modification in this mod that changes the number of fighters assigned to bases or carriers? I hope that you didn't change the actual default loadout with more fighters than bombers as that is the proper loadout. You need fighters to escort bombers plus fighters to defend the base or carrier so the fighter loadout should be higher than 50%. Check US aircraft carrier loadouts and you'll see that about 2/3 of planes are fighters with about 1/3 as bombers. I hope that you leave the default loadout percentages alone and only allow players to change the loadout percentages if they want to. I certainly don't want to have to change the base and carrier loadout percentages back to default since I don't want that changed.

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ORIGINAL: ArchMike

:D

Is it something AI pirates will use ?

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ORIGINAL: ArchMike

In an earlier post, you had mentioned this possibility (moving from pirate to empire) and said that you had difficulties. Congratulations on succeeding !

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Just to be sure, the empire will behave just like a normal empire (governor characters spawing, ruins exploration, etc) ?

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ORIGINAL: o30k

Hey, is there anyway that I could use the changes to the hyperspace exiting changes without the use of everything else?

I like the mod as a whole but at the moment i'm enjoying the base game and wanted to try it with ships exiting jump closer/farther apart.

Thanks.

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ORIGINAL: Krankenhausen

I love your mod. It adds a new dimension to the game. But recently when I'm playing DW, whenever I select a ship in the lists on the left it moves to the top of the list. could this be a feature of your mod? I'm pretty sure it didn't do this before and I can't find any option that could cause it in the menus or Bacon Settings. Can I turn it off?