TDM Mod Pack 3.00 errors

Elmo · #1 March 7th, 2002, 10:56 PM

Guys

Tried starting a Gold game with the new TDM Mod Pack 3.00 but got two errors:

Could not find field "Race Opt 2 Characteristic 6 Type" in record Sergetti

Could not find field "Race Opt 2 Characteristic 6 Amount" in record Sergetti

I was not running any other mods. Restarted from scratch and got the same errors again.

Elmo

Suicide Junkie · #2 March 7th, 2002, 11:14 PM

Under the TDM modfolder, in pictures\races\sergetti, open sergetti_AI_general.txt, and look for "Race Opt 2"

See if the Opt 2 Char 6 entry is spelt correctly.
If it dosen't exist, go up and reduce the number of characteristics to 5.

Elmo · #3 March 7th, 2002, 11:27 PM

There are only 5 Characteristics for Opt 2, not 6.

Elmo

Suicide Junkie · #4 March 7th, 2002, 11:49 PM

Then, go and set the "opt 2 num characteristics" line to be 5 instead of 6, and it should work.

Opt 2 is for 3,000 racial point games, which are not very common, so it is possible that that setting was never tested.

Elmo · #5 March 8th, 2002, 12:25 AM

OK, thanks. I only play 2000 point games so I'm surprised it came up as an error.

Fyron · #6 March 8th, 2002, 12:37 AM

quote:
Opt 2 is for 3,000 racial point games, which are not very common, so it is possible that that setting was never tested.

Not very common? What are you talking about? I've been in ~20 PBW games, and only 4 weren't 3000 point games.

Tampa_Gamer · #7 March 8th, 2002, 12:43 AM

No, what happened is that when we test the races. We typically use the "Add empires" option to add all of the TDM races manually to each game. When you add races this way, you do not need the AI_General file. The only way to test the AI_General file is for the game to randomly add that particular race to a game.

We will let Daynarr know the problem so that it can be fixed in our first post-Gold patch.

Thanks
-TG

Suicide Junkie · #8 March 8th, 2002, 01:00 AM

Good point, SE4 should complain as soon as it reads that file at all, shouldn't it.

Daynarr · #9 March 8th, 2002, 01:34 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Elmo:
Guys

Tried starting a Gold game with the new TDM Mod Pack 3.00 but got two errors:

Could not find field "Race Opt 2 Characteristic 6 Type" in record Sergetti

Could not find field "Race Opt 2 Characteristic 6 Amount" in record Sergetti

I was not running any other mods. Restarted from scratch and got the same errors again.

Elmo

This is my fault. Sorry about that.

I did notice the error but it was too late to change it for the gold CD - it was already out for a print.
I would see it sooner but I almost never use 3000 empire points game.

Elmo · #10 March 8th, 2002, 02:53 AM

Guys

OK, I see the actual problem.

Here is what Op 2 Characteristic 6 looks like:

Race Opt 3 Characteristic 6 Type := Political Savvy
Race Opt 3 Characteristic 6 Amount := 50

Note that it is incorrectly listed as Op 3. So the fix is to change the 3's to 2's. There are actually 8 Characteristics so you don't want to change Op 2 Num Characteristics to 5.

Elmo

[ 08 March 2002: Message edited by: Elmo ]