Deaf Metal
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The event offer to buy a map to a dungeon triggered on a city tile, which made it impossible to purchase.
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MNAI-U: unofficial build & bugfixes
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Deaf Metal
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The sid's tip for breeding pit has an errant tabbing at the start.
Set
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How is settler cost determined in FFH/MNAI? In the XML, cost is listed as 120 hammers, but in game settlers cost 220 hammers. Changing the cost to 100 hammers in the XML changes the cost of settlers in game to 200. Where is the extra hammer cost coming from? Also note that settler cost is not shown in the civlopedia.
Deaf Metal
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How much does a settler cost for you?
Simple question. Reason I ask is that with me settlers in mods always cost 100 hammers more than what is indicated in XML. However not everyone seems to have this problem. So I'd like to know how widespread this is. Settlers in XML in FfH cost 120 hammers. In-game they cost 220 hammers with...
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Dominus the Mentat
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Ok. I just feel that it should be reported and if would be an interesting change to the game.
Yes. I just wanted to suggest something that I believe would better the mod's gameplay. Thank you for your answers guys.
Set
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Hopefully my last question while I wrap my head around doing a little bit of DLL modmodding. I've added a little bit of code to the DLL to prevent the AIs from attempting to explore lairs until their units are level 3. Like so:
The code builds fine and works great. But turns are now unbearably slowly. Almost unplayably so. I don't think this is anything to do with my change. Both because I don't see why it would cause this issue (it should speed up turns if anything!) but also because removing it doesn't seem to fix the problem. However, substituting the DLL from base MNAI does cause the problem to go away. I assume this is a pretty normal and expected part of working with the DLL that I'm just not familiar with but maybe it's a weird problem?
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The code builds fine and works great. But turns are now unbearably slowly. Almost unplayably so. I don't think this is anything to do with my change. Both because I don't see why it would cause this issue (it should speed up turns if anything!) but also because removing it doesn't seem to fix the problem. However, substituting the DLL from base MNAI does cause the problem to go away. I assume this is a pretty normal and expected part of working with the DLL that I'm just not familiar with but maybe it's a weird problem?
I just realised I never linked FFH2 Adventure 10 here.
MagisterCultuum
Great Sage
I got another unexplained crash with a dump file I cannot make much sense of.
Unrelated, but how does the game determine what units to give the player when starting in later eras? In my modmod I find that in a Medieval start most players get a Sapere (priest of the Laeran Cord), but the Khazad get a couple Firebrands (priests of the Ember Legion) and the Svartalar get some Flurries. It might be nice if they could each get a more lore appropriate priest or other units.
Could you swap the colors for production bonuses when they are negative? I gave a bunch of units a positive production bonus for one mana type and a negative bonus for the opposing sphere, and think it looks odd for that to show up as green when you have the bonus and red when you don't whether having it makes unit production faster or slower.
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Unrelated, but how does the game determine what units to give the player when starting in later eras? In my modmod I find that in a Medieval start most players get a Sapere (priest of the Laeran Cord), but the Khazad get a couple Firebrands (priests of the Ember Legion) and the Svartalar get some Flurries. It might be nice if they could each get a more lore appropriate priest or other units.
Could you swap the colors for production bonuses when they are negative? I gave a bunch of units a positive production bonus for one mana type and a negative bonus for the opposing sphere, and think it looks odd for that to show up as green when you have the bonus and red when you don't whether having it makes unit production faster or slower.
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I cannot either. I'd need a full dump produced with a debug DLL.
MagisterCultuum
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I just got my first crash after switching to the debug dll and opted for a full dump.
I still don't know how to make sense of it.
When I tried uploading a zip of the dump file the forum says "The uploaded file is too large for the server to process." The original dump file is 1.94 GB while the zip is 596 MB.
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You mean this? https://github.com/civ4-mp/pbmod
I can put it on the list, but no promises.
Opening it with Visual Studio will give you a snapshot of the BtS process when it crashed. If the crash happened in the DLL code, the (immediate) problem should be easy to spot. Otherwise, it's in the exe, but the stack trace may reveal something.
FireBlaze
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yeah all that stuff, I don't understand the nuts and bolts of it myself just that some functionality seems to be necessary to allow for pitboss style games in the modern day lol
MagisterCultuum
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Any idea when the next MNAI update may be out? I'm getting close to ready to release another minor update of my modmod (just a few python bug fixes mostly pedia/mouseover additions to better explain what will effect a priest's odds of miscasting), but would rather have a new DLL to include if it would cut down on crashes.
I haven't been able to make sense of the crash dump files myself. I'd like to share them to see if you have more luck, but the forum won't let me share files that are about 2 GB.
I could post saved games from shortly before a crash, but the game doesn't generally crash at the same point when I load from a saved game. Sometimes it will play fine for another 5, 10, or 20 turns.
I haven't been able to make sense of the crash dump files myself. I'd like to share them to see if you have more luck, but the forum won't let me share files that are about 2 GB.
I could post saved games from shortly before a crash, but the game doesn't generally crash at the same point when I load from a saved game. Sometimes it will play fine for another 5, 10, or 20 turns.
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MagisterCultuum
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This is a save from immediately before a repeatable crash in my current game with my modmod.
(I have made a few minor changes since the last release, but nothing that ought to break saved games or that I can imagine would be relevant to this crash.)
I'm still not sure how to make sense of the dump file, and that file is still too large to easily share in this forum, but I suspect you can easily get this saved game to crash and generate a dump file on your own machine for you to analyze.
I have a Djinn located one tile due west of the Lanun city of The Sunken Mire, and one tile north east of an neutral Amurite Galleon containing a worker. When I use the Djinn to cast Snowfall, the BBAI log shows this and then the game crashes.
When I used worldbuilder to move the Djinn to the other side of the Sunken Mire to attack the city with Snowfall but not effect the Amurite's Galleon, it caused no problems.
Maybe the problem is related to the spell causing a declaration of war for dealing damage to a neutral unit?
Edit: I've had several more crashes, not always reproducible from loading a save, but it seems like the common factor is that the BBAI log always shows a worker Slain.
(I have made a few minor changes since the last release, but nothing that ought to break saved games or that I can imagine would be relevant to this crash.)
I'm still not sure how to make sense of the dump file, and that file is still too large to easily share in this forum, but I suspect you can easily get this saved game to crash and generate a dump file on your own machine for you to analyze.
I have a Djinn located one tile due west of the Lanun city of The Sunken Mire, and one tile north east of an neutral Amurite Galleon containing a worker. When I use the Djinn to cast Snowfall, the BBAI log shows this and then the game crashes.
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Djinn (9789772) casting Snowfall (plot 49, 7)
Killing Galleon (delayed) -- received deadly damage (Unit 4399126 - plot: 48, 6)
Killing Worker -- Transporting unit killed (Unit 4071529 - plot: 48, 6)
Worker Slain! (Unit 4071529 - plot: 48, 6)
Galleon Slain! (Unit 4399126 - plot: 48, 6)
Killing Galleon (delayed) -- received deadly damage from attacker in doDamage() (Unit 4399126 - plot: 48, 6)
Galleon Slain! (Unit 4399126 - plot: 48, 6)When I used worldbuilder to move the Djinn to the other side of the Sunken Mire to attack the city with Snowfall but not effect the Amurite's Galleon, it caused no problems.
Maybe the problem is related to the spell causing a declaration of war for dealing damage to a neutral unit?
Edit: I've had several more crashes, not always reproducible from loading a save, but it seems like the common factor is that the BBAI log always shows a worker Slain.
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