New PBW game - Strange Races

Captain Kwok · #1 December 3rd, 2002, 05:36 PM

I do have a very original race pic and empire file already. I only have a partial shipset, perhaps I'll borrow one and modify it.

capnq · #2 December 3rd, 2002, 10:25 PM

A significant fraction of the shipsets in the PBW File Library were made before SE IV Gold came out, also, which means their AIs will be incompatible.

geoschmo · #3 December 3rd, 2002, 10:37 PM

True, but AI's are easily updated, and aren't really needed for PBW games anyway. You can get by with just the pics, unless you plan on playing solo games or running turns offline on your machine. In fact with no AI files at all I think the game will just revert to the defeault AI files in the AI folder.

Geoschmo

Captain Kwok · #4 December 3rd, 2002, 11:50 PM

True Geo,

But a lot of the AIs including with the shipset files cause a lot of annoying errors when you load some PBW turns!

Edit:

I should have finished reading your post. Yes, deleting the AI files solves the problem. It would be nice to get AIs for some of sets though.

[ December 03, 2002, 21:51: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]

geoschmo · #5 December 4th, 2002, 05:48 AM

Gandalph, Are we playing with or without intel? Just want to be clear before I set up my empire.

Fyron · #6 December 4th, 2002, 06:08 AM

I considered joining, but I'm not looking to get into any games where talismans are around in the near future. Too overly powerful and unbalancing for my tastes. And with the requirement of at least 1 racial technology trait, I know someone is going to take it. Sigh.

capnq · #7 December 4th, 2002, 08:22 PM

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Yes, deleting the AI files solves the problem.

Or following the conVersion instructions in my sig, if you do want to use them in solo games.

Just deleting the AI files can have a drawback: the Default_AI files never research or use any racial techs.