Adding my planet Mod to Final Frontier Plus 2.3

[Aradziem]

Latest version uploaded.
Hopefully fixed

I need to have another look at my Ai anyway, it doesn't always check always if the requires tech is there. It would be interesting to know if it was on any of the other planets.

I checked. These 2 building aren't anywhere in this system.

By the way you again forgot to include updated DLL with XP display fix.

 

[planetmaker]

I checked. These 2 building aren't anywhere in this system.

By the way you again forgot to include updated DLL with XP display fix.

Perhaps I'm adding 2 of the atmosphere processors by mistake. Or the Ai is building it not on a planet.
Maybe we could add a code that loops through existing buildings and checks to see if one of the planets has one, and if not delete. Relevant section is in FinalFrontierEvents.py line1256.

I've added the XP fix again.

 

[PsiCorps]

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PsiCorps, to continue to develop terraformer for B5 a decision will have to be made regarding the buildings and the tech.
Do we just distribute the buildings into the existing tech tree, or squeeze my 8 new technologies in somehow?

Apologies for the delay in responding to your reply.

IIRC I do have one planet terraforming tech in theB5 Mod.

I would need to look at your MOD as a separate installation so I can compare the tech tree and see what needs to be copied/added to the B5 Mod.

It's possible that the buildings you have added can be placed onto existing techs within the B5 Mod.

However, I'm not adverse to modifying the B5 Tech Tree again, as long as everything can be incorporated and works without any issues.

 

[Aradziem]

I got this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "BugGameUtils", line 342, in callHandler
File "BugGameUtils", line 297, in <lambda>
File "FinalFrontierGameUtils", line 845, in AI_unitUpdate
File "CvAI", line 2997, in doConstructionShipAI
File "CvAI", line 2884, in doStationConstructionAI
File "CvAI", line 2926, in canConstructStarbase
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'iX' referenced before assignment

The problem is that a civilization without a capital has a construction ship trying to build a starbase. I thought I had fixed this earlier but my fix doesn't work on larger maps.

New fix:
add
else:
iDistanceFromCapital = 1#Aradziem this disables optimization, so a few stranded construction ships on large maps may severely affect performance.
after line
if (pPlayer.getCapitalCity().plot()!=None):#Aradziem bugfix(looks like was always true)
iDistanceFromCapital = CyMap().calculatePathDistance(pPlayer.getCapitalCity().plot(), pLoopPlot)
(line 3200 in CvAI.py)

As said in the comment this may affect performance in some cases.

 

[planetmaker]

I've added Aradziem's fix to my CvAI fie as well as finishing the terraforming effects for the large moons. I've uploaded my latest version.
I've also tried to make an Intro movie to my planet maker mod, uploaded to my new Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@PlanetMaker-FF

 

[planetmaker]

Added code to line 1316 in FinalFrontierEvents.py,
needs more testing... for some reason its adding more buildings, so I'm deleting one. I will have to test on some big cities to determine if its just 1 extra, or if its *2...

        #PLANETMAKER set all buildings to 0 then loop through the planets and add again to make sure no buildings in city not on a planet
        for iBuildingClassLoop in range(gc.getNumBuildingClassInfos()):
            pCity.setNumRealBuilding(iBuildingLoop, 0)
            for iPlanetLoop in range(pSystem.getNumPlanets()):
                pPlanet = pSystem.getPlanetByIndex(iPlanetLoop)
                #Planetmaker if building present add to city
                if pPlanet.isHasBuilding(iBuildingClassLoop):
                    pCity.setNumRealBuilding(iBuildingClassLoop, pCity.getNumRealBuilding(iBuildingClassLoop) + 1)
            if (pCity.getNumRealBuilding(iBuildingClassLoop) > 1):
                pCity.setNumRealBuilding(iBuildingClassLoop, pCity.getNumRealBuilding(iBuildingClassLoop) - 1)

Also when a city is first built, on on its turn1, it doesn't add its building yields. This can be a problem for new earth, since setting on a planet with less than 4 food (happens almost all the time) the greenhouse complex is needed to stop it shrinking to size 1. I think at the end of this I'll have to perform a yield override check. Alternatively I could start them with pop 3 if not on a home world.

 

[planetmaker]

I've updated a lot of the textures and added more terraforming effects. Now there are 2 stages for terraforming for Brown, Desert and Martian classes. Latest version uploaded.
Example Brown world:

Example Desert world:

Example Martian world:

 

[planetmaker]

Example Gray World:

 

[planetmaker]

Example Ice World:

 

[planetmaker]

Md(Desert5)

 

[planetmaker]

Mp(Ice10

 

[planetmaker]

fixed city shrinking by adding the lines to FinalFrontier events line 1168

# PLANETMAKER manually add 4 food so city doesn't immediately shrink for new Earth players because building yields are not added on turn 1
pCity.setBaseYieldRate(0, 8)
pCity.setFood(4)

 

[planetmaker]

Latest Version uploaded
Includes the last of the planets update (4 more gas giants)
Updated textures fro gas giants
J5 (Free image from open game art)

S5 (merged Saturn map and J5)

U1

U5

N5

Gray, red and blue ring systems

The Lava Military Complex now costs more, but gives a free armour upgrade
Improved textures for Desert6 (Md) planet (below with rings)

 

[PsiCorps]

Can you provide a link to the latest version please?

 

[planetmaker]

@psyCorps Click on my profile and then resources. Then on the download button. Put the finalfrontierplus.rar file in your mods folder. Remember to back up your final frontier plus directory. Then delete your final frontier directory plus folder entirely before extracting the file.

 

[planetmaker]

For the next version I will make a new directory and a desktop shortcut

 

[Mr Smith]

@psyCorps Click on my profile and then resources. Then on the download button. Put the finalfrontierplus.rar file in your mods folder. Remember to back up your final frontier plus directory. Then delete your final frontier directory plus folder entirely before extracting the file.

Or you can just click on the Overview tab for this thread (since it's a resource discussion).

 

[PsiCorps]

OK, I've downloaded your Mod and played about 150 turns on a fast speed at Prince level just to see what you have done.

Love what you've done, the Mod plays quite well.

However, my only criticism, and I experienced the same issue on the B5 Mod, is that you spend so much time building infrastructure, because there's so much of it, that there is little time to build ships. If you forgoe the infrastructure then your ship building will take even longer, leaving you largely defenceless when the pirates arrive.

The early game, say, the first 50 turns, you do have time to get some scouts, Colony ships and Planetary Defence ships built, but then you start getting bogged down with building the infrastructure you really need to be able to compete with the AI civs.

My suggestion, for what it's worth, either reduce the build cost of your added buildings by 50 or 60%, increase research times so you don't get loads of new buildings available to you every 10 turns or so,

Other than that, you've done some great work.

 

[Mr Smith]

you spend so much time building infrastructure, because there's so much of it, that there is little time to build ships. If you forego the infrastructure then your ship building will take even longer, leaving you largely defenceless when the pirates arrive.

This should be solved by whipping, preferably rebranded as cloning or biosynthesis.

My suggestion, for what it's worth, either reduce the build cost of your added buildings by 50 or 60%, increase research times so you don't get loads of new buildings available to you every 10 turns or so

50/60% is too much, also there's a reason each building becomes more costly the more copies you have. Research values for sure must be adjusted, though. Honestly, I wouldn't even make planets pump out so much commerce in the first place, unless there was a dire need to devaluate minimal 1 yield, but I feel it's only the case for The Forge.