Space Food Empires!

[Atrocities]

If I did not know any better I would say that you are a profectionist. I mean that in a kind way as I wish I had a lot more of it in mean and a lot less of "oh well, its good enough for government work" mantality.

[Renegade 13]

We appreciate the updates

[Captain Kwok]

Another update:

I've finished off and debugged the Facility.txt file as well as set up some basic empire files for each race. Still need to make some combat images, update a few of the important AI files, and do some play-testing to fix any glaring problems so Saturday afternoon still looks good!

I'm not thrilled with the quality of the facilities thus far, but oh well, I can fix them up over time.

You can view the fully updated technology section that will represent the first release at the Space Food Empires website.

[Captain Kwok]

So I go set up a 10-player game with all the empires controlled by me and what's the first thing I notice? I completely forgot to assign 5 of the empire files a colony tech! After spending like 30 minutes on the first 5 empires' turns designing ships etc.

[Captain Kwok]

I'm so frustrated. I've spent countless hours trying to get the AI to design a colony ship to no avail. I've tried every possible trick, compared entries to a dozen mods and still no luck. All I've been able to determine is that it's something related to the colonize planet - rock ability.

[Captain Kwok]

This is the entry I've been playing with mostly.
Code:

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Name                                            := Colony (Rock)

Design Type                                     := Colony (Rock)

Vehicle Type                                    := Ship

Default Strategy                                := Don't Get Hurt

Size Minimum Tonnage                            := 500

Size Maximum Tonnage                            := 500

Num Must Have At Least 1 Ability                := 1

Must Have Ability 1                             := Colonize Planet - Rock

Minimum Speed                                   := 0

Desired Speed                                   := 0

Majority Weapon Family Pick 1                   := 0

Majority Weapon Family Pick 2                   := 0

Majority Weapon Family Pick 3                   := 0 

Majority Weapon Family Pick 4                   := 0 

Majority Weapon Family Pick 5                   := 0 

Secondary Weapon Family Pick 1                  := 0

Secondary Weapon Family Pick 2                  := 0

Secondary Weapon Family Pick 3                  := 0

Secondary Weapon Family Pick 4                  := 0

Secondary Weapon Family Pick 5                  := 0

Shields Spaces Per One                          := 0

Armor Spaces Per One                            := 0

Majority Comp Spaces Per One                    := 10000

Majority Comp Ability                           := Colonize Planet - Rock

Secondary Comp Spaces Per One                   := 0

Secondary Comp Ability                          := 0

Num Misc Abilities                              := 3

Misc Ability 1 Name                             := AI Tag 01

Misc Ability 1 Spaces Per One                   := 100

Misc Ability 2 Name                             := Standard Ship Movement

Misc Ability 2 Spaces Per One                   := 100

Misc Ability 3 Name                             := AI Tag 10

Misc Ability 3 Spaces Per One                   := 10000

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AI Tag 01 refers to a 5kT supply reactor. It should add 5 of these (25kT), plus 5 5kT engines (25kT), and add AI Tag 10 for a cargo hold (20kT). The ship vehiclesize.txt entry requires 1 bridge, life support, crew quarters (30kT). So that's 100kT + 400kT colony module for a 500kT ship. It's a perfectly legal design I can make as a player.

Regardless of the ship size limits I set or even if I drop the colony requirements no luck to even get a basic hull design.

Strangely my attack ship entries are just fine!

[Renegade 13]

Noticed a couple things:

First, when entering a system, I got an "Unable to load bitmap [root SEIV directory]/Space food empires/pictures/systems/stellarcore1.bmp"

Second, are light mounts only supposed to divide, size, damage, etc all in half, and divide the cost by 4?

[Captain Kwok]

Ignore the missing bitmap errors for now, I'm making them now and will patch them in shortly. I was just too lazy to revert them to stock images as I had intended to make them in time for the first release. I believe the following system types will produce the errors: One of the blackholes, pulsars, quasars, neutron stars, dwarfs, and probably one or two more. Also note the nebula/storm systems are all using the same 2 images will recieve a nice update by Friday.

The half-mount should cost 40% but be 50% in size etc. The slight break on cost is to balance out the fact that the half-mount is less effective against leaky shields/armor.