bug discovered (may concern all PBW players)

[trooper]

When I start a new game, I've got several windows like that :

http://diesel2035.free.fr/bug.gif

I use 1.78 gold, with some custom shipsets

Any idea ?

[ January 18, 2003, 22:44: Message edited by: trooper ]

[Fyron]

That means you are using pre-gold AIs. You will need to add those lines to the mentioned AI files to get them to work. Copy them from the default AI files.

[trooper]

You were right. I got these races recently on PBW server, but it seems it is old files.

I had to make the changes in settings.txt in some races. For info, the races concerned are :

addisian
Darlok (also an error an "politcal savy" in general.txt file)
Seorfleet
Starwolf
Vaxin

also add "Percentage of Fleets to use for defense := 70" line in fleet.txt for all these races.

These races should be updated on the PBW server.

PBW gamers, beware...

[Fyron]

There are newer Versions on Shrapnel of some of those races. Darloks changed to Drakol to avoid copyright issues for TDM on the Gold CD.

[couslee]

darloks copyright?

Corrent me if i am wrong, but in the original movie "the time machine" the "race" that lived underground were the darloks. can't remember the sun side race, democrat maybe. lol

[Fyron]

The Darloks were taken from MOO2.

Maybe you are thinking of Morlocks?

[ January 18, 2003, 23:09: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Ed Kolis]

Heh, Darloks and Democrats... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif (Eloi were the surface dwellers)

Hey, I sometimes call the Daleks from Dr. Who Darloks instead! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

You know Stephen Baxter wrote a sort of sequel to "The Time Machine" called "The Time Ships"? Read it, it's pretty interesting!

[capnq]

There are complete instructions for converting pre-Gold AIs linked in my sig.

There are a couple files that need changes that don't generate errors immediately; I've revised the instructions at least once to account for those.