I did some more experimenting and found that if the attacking unit's strength was greater than the defending dreadnought's full strength of 22 it targeted the dreadnought. I used another Dreadnought to attack and it was targeting the Steamer - as soon as I gave it a combat 1 promo it targeted the Dreadnought as it should. I'm using BUG/BULL/BAT and BETTER AI mods - maybe it's the AI mod? Very odd.
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isenchine
Empress
I'm kinda confused by a weird thing happening in a Mod/Scenario I'm making. I want the game to start in the year 1700 and a starting era of industrial. I've edited the worldbuilder file to try and achieve this. However when I start the scenario it starts in Summer 1887 on turn 750, which is not what I plannedIn the spoiler is what I currently have in the WB file. I've looked through every tutorial I can find that I think will help and tried several things, alas to no avail, I've altered it several times to turn 0 but everytime it just reverts back to turn 750 on loading.
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Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong and how to fix it? Thanks for reading
These settings are depending upon what you have in your CIV4GameSpeedInfo.xml file for the GAMESPEED_MARATHON. Have you edited it?
Also, you are using the CALENDAR_SEASONS instead of the default one.
The StartYear should only be 1700 if you start at turn 0. Otherwise it counts as from 1700 and add 750 turns which could mean 187.5 years (750 / 4 seasons) = Summer 1887 (1700 + 187.5).
Try to think along these lines. In case you have edited it, you could also post the <GameTurnInfos> settings for your Gamespeed Marathon.
TezaPsyborg
Warlord
I haven't modified the CIV4GameSpeedInfo.xml at all.
I should make clear that it is only when I edit the map in WB (which is still an onging process) and then save that WB file that the turn number is 750 when I look in the WB file next time.
I keep changing the GameTurn to 0 but still get a start year of summer 1887 when I load up the scenario. I don't understand where the extra 750 turns are coming from, I keep trying to get rid of them but they come back
But thanks anyway isenchine for reading and replying
isenchine
Empress
I haven't modified the CIV4GameSpeedInfo.xml at all.
I should make clear that it is only when I edit the map in WB (which is still an onging process) and then save that WB file that the turn number is 750 when I look in the WB file next time.
I keep changing the GameTurn to 0 but still get a start year of summer 1887 when I load up the scenario. I don't understand where the extra 750 turns are coming from, I keep trying to get rid of them but they come back
But thanks anyway isenchine for reading and replying
How do you reset it to 0? With a text editor?
Perhaps you are not editing the file that is loaded? If you save a file in the WB, it goes by default to 'My Documents/My Games'. You have to copy it to the 'Private/PublicMaps' folder where you can load it from the menu. I can't think of something else for the time being.
EDIT: forget the above, the problem might come from the ERA_INDUSTRIAL. In the CIV4EraInfos.xml file, the BtS <iStartPercent> is set at 50, meaning 50% of 1500 turns (Marathon) = 750.
spaceman98
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How do you give barbarians technologies at start in a scenario? I can give the barbs techs in worldbuilder, but when I save and then load the resulting scenario I find the barbarians once again without any techs. Please help?
Thank You.
Thank You.
TezaPsyborg
Warlord
Yep its the ERA that does it, I figured that out myself last night but I wasn't quite sure how to resolve it. I thought of either changing the era to ancient or changing the start date, neither of which was exactly what I wanted...
However thanks to your information what I've actually done is just change the <iStartPercent> to 0 which solves the problem. I would probably have never figured that out by myself, IstartPercent is a pretty cryptic name
Thank you very much for your help it's also helped me by drawing my attention to the CIVEraInfos file which I needed to modify further
you may need to create your own mod for the scenario, and then modifiy CIV4CivilizationInfos.xml and change this bit
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For the Barbarian Civ. This is where starting techs are handled.
Ominous Destiny
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I elected not to post the python or SDK forums because the problem could be either.
Quick noob question... what are some common causes for CTD? I'm debugging a mod with extensive python and DLL work (which is not my own). I get a CTD without an error message. I've got the auto save file and it crashes as soon as it loads.
Are there any debugging tools that I might consider using?
Quick noob question... what are some common causes for CTD? I'm debugging a mod with extensive python and DLL work (which is not my own). I get a CTD without an error message. I've got the auto save file and it crashes as soon as it loads.
Are there any debugging tools that I might consider using?
in my experience CTDs with no message have virtually always been because of bad art defines.
God-Emperor
Deity
First, make sure you have it set to show you Python errors. In the main CivilizationIV.ini set HidePythonExceptions to 0. This will give a pop-up if you get a Python error.
The Python errors are also stored in the PythonErr.log file (there is also a PythonErr2.log file which is almost never of any use). There are other log files in the Logs folder which might have some info in them that is useful to you.
But as srpt said, the single most common "instant crash" causing thing is art. Missing art. Bad path names in the art def XML making it look in the wrong place. Incorrect button definitions. That sort of thing.
Ominous Destiny
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I'm not entirely sure. I'm just alpha testing, I'll ask though. Is there a specific DLL that handles errors, or do debug versions simply have built in methods for dealing with exceptions?
I've dealt with the art defines before where I'll get a CTD during loading or during map creation. Can art defines cause a CTD during game play too? I'm thinking yes... perhaps if a promotion had a bad art define, it wouldn't crash until the player unit was eligible; or if a unit type had a bad art define, it wouldn't crash until something (python or the ai) built or spawned the unit?
CaptainLost
Oberleutnant
As far as units go, I'm pretty sure their art is loaded when you start up the game even before you play. I have had many instant CTD's because of wrong art for units.
spaceman98
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I tried this, and the civilopedia claims I succeeded, but when I open my scenario via WB, I find that the barbs once more have no techs. I can post screenshots if that would be useful. Is there any place in a WB File where the techs that Barbarian (team 50, methinks) has are listed?
Yeah barbs can be tricky, as they have there own set of rules and have all these bits of code in the sdk that do things, so the code may force the barbs back to a default level..
have you tried playing your scenario for a turn or 2 then WB changing the techs and reloading? It may do nothing, but it might just 'avoid' some defaulting bit of code that starts the barbs off with X or no tech?
have you tried playing your scenario for a turn or 2 then WB changing the techs and reloading? It may do nothing, but it might just 'avoid' some defaulting bit of code that starts the barbs off with X or no tech?
TezaPsyborg
Warlord
spaceman98 I'm also interested in solving this one and having a sudden brainwave I think I've found a simple way round it and that's to add a minor civilisation to the game. You open the WB file and add a new team and player.
In this example it's team 16. First add the team and the techs you want
Then you add the player
This seems to work, as long as you make sure that you specify PlayableCiv=0 and MinorNationStatus=1 then as far as I can tell you can't negotiate with that civ and neither can the AI (I think anyway)
In this example it's team 16. First add the team and the techs you want
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Then you add the player
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This seems to work, as long as you make sure that you specify PlayableCiv=0 and MinorNationStatus=1 then as far as I can tell you can't negotiate with that civ and neither can the AI (I think anyway)
