Ok, thanks for quick answer.
Let me know if I can help with something.. testing or solving xml-problems..
Just amended my post above
Ok, thanks for quick answer.
Let me know if I can help with something.. testing or solving xml-problems..
The lack of AI ability to use the landing troop mechanic is getting to be a real issue late game. At this point, there are two major computer 'empires' composed of Narn and Earth with their vassals. Since neither can use the landing troops, they can't make any progress fighting one another.
Might I suggest a stop gap, just untill a way can be found to teach the computers to land troops? Give the ability, to perhaps troops transport ships only? They come out of the box with low attack stregenths. Hopefully computers will bring them in to invade, right now they don't even seem to be using troop transport ships. I'm guessing because nothing flags as taking planet, the ai is getting confused, skipping straight to ships with high combat stregenth instead.
Players can still use troops as intended. Right now we do anyways, and it's more practical to fill one transport with four squads of troops than send four ships. At least the AI will hopefully remain viable late game in wars.
Hi all, thought I'd better give you an update on my progress. So far I have completely updated 2 civs to incorporate the Jump Engines. This has meant adding 6 new ships to each Civ that are jump incapable (or jump capable depending on how you want to look at it). I'll explain. First I just added the Jump capability to all of the ships, except fighters & scouts and also the generic units Colony Ship, Construction Ship, Starbases and Missiles. After I'd added this I then went through to amend the Tech/resource requirements for each ship. It was whilst doing this that I remembered I had to include a version of the earlier available units that couldn't jump. So far I've gone through and overhauled The EA and the Minbari Unit rosters as well as added pedia text entries for all the new units where there was originally an entry. All this and I've spent a day fitting a new kitchen sink as well!
Now that I've done two races completely and am getting a little quicker at doing them I'm hoping that they will all be ready for next weekend. I make no promises!!
Why scouts, colony ships and construction ships cant jump..? I understand that fighters and missiles cant jump because of rebase ability (air units) but all other ships (land units) should be able to jump if someone opens the jump point for them.. At least in B5 wise
Why scouts, colony ships and construction ships cant jump..?
I have been starting to wonder about one thing balance wise. The stealth promos. So many promotions in game give benefits to first strike. Three levels of stealth promos negate all first strike however. It's looking like a necessary promotion, shouldn't that be a little harder to get? Every AI tends to get it, every player probably has a much easier life doing so too. And then it negates so many other promotions.. just something I've noticed after a few games.
In unrealted news. Since I'm pretty sure everyone in this thread shares a love of sci fi. Iron Sky was a great deal of fun to watch, in the Spaceballs tradition. Here is a trailer, if you haven't heard of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He_PWsJqsVY
Think I've decided what my next B5 map will be, a little EA vs EA flavoured iron sky wise. Okay, back to your regularly scheduled mod stuff now.
I'm getting an xml error on launch. Something about jump points, then it goes on into the B5 menu. Will see if any problems appear while actually in game and post up if so.
some narn ship graphics missing also..
Sorry to announce unable to upload additional patch despite 3 attempts. Going to give up and try again in the morning, if I have time.
Okay, both patches are uploaded now.
I found no issues with the Narn artwork as reported previously by rtt4a.
If there is still an issue after you have added these patches I'll upload a newer version including all changes as soon as possible.
No "issues" but the "xml\terrain" folder should be under "assets" along with the other folder. I can change my own local copy, but others may be confused if they simply try to copy to their game.