impressions of Pirates and Nomad mod?

Fyron · #1 August 13th, 2003, 08:37 PM

Keep in mind that abandoning your HW will also cut off all trade treaties, thus destroying all trade income. That could be disastrous.

Merry Jolkar · #2 August 14th, 2003, 01:05 AM

Sounds fun. I'm going to ask some new players to join our group, each paired with a nomad or a pirate experienced player. Who are stronger, Pirates or Nomads?
Merry

Suicide Junkie · #3 August 14th, 2003, 02:35 AM

Either would be good without pre-arranged teams.

If you go with a nomad partner, they can give you the no-maintenance ships...
If you go with a Pirate, they can get your super-stealthy ships. The Pirate Hoards might come in handy for all the trade income you'll be getting...

I'd say the Nomad would be more powerful as an ally.

[ August 14, 2003, 03:39: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

Merry Jolkar · #4 August 17th, 2003, 01:12 AM

I'm playing around with P&N mod, and the graphics look great. But, when I run host, I get a message stating that:

"Unknown value "Drone Attack" for Default Strategy in record "Anti-Ship Drone.
"Unknown value "Drone Attack" for Default Strategy in record "Anti-Planet Drone."

The error comes up multiple times and I suspect it might therefore have to do with an error in executing the A.I. scripts.

What am I missing here?
Thanks, Merry
Thanks,
John

Suicide Junkie · #5 August 17th, 2003, 01:38 AM

There are no drones in P&N, so it dosen't really matter.

Copy the defaultstrategies.txt from TDM to get rid of that.
I'll upload a fix for that in just a bit.

Merry Jolkar · #6 August 17th, 2003, 01:46 AM

Thanks for the quick reply. It occurred to me :what happens if you are playing with a mod on PBW and an error like this occurs? Manually hosting, I have to hit "OK". (I assume people have successfully played P&N on PBW, right?)

[ August 17, 2003, 00:49: Message edited by: Merry Jolkar ]

Fyron · #7 August 17th, 2003, 02:33 AM

PBW processes turns using the command line switches, which include options for ignoring some error Messages. And, I believe it is set up to specifically ignore common error Messages that occur.