Ok, Toffer. I've fixed this crash. A defending animal had suffered from enough modifiers to have an effective 0 combat strength after entering combat, which apparently never happens in the core due to more restrained application of modifiers. It could have though so yeah, it was something the core could share. I'm in the middle of compiling the dll now.
I've been noticing some bad behavior along these lines and I think it has to do with defenders answering to contracts put out by other units. The AI is reacting to this state of unprotectedness accurately, as in they are training replacements and sending them in later, but they tend to do so slowly. I'd prefer that units that are set to being part of the minimum defense for the city don't feel as if they can or should do anything else. SM may also be playing a role in an interesting way on that... I did a few things to try to address it from that angle but I'm not convinced it was effective enough.
Well i am in the Industrial Era, is that enough time, lol??
The AI HAS been told to relax a little on defenses as an immediate priority because it was interrupting better decisions at the beginning of the game. It may still need to take a little higher priority though so it's worth re-evaluating somewhat.
I'll need a save from just before or even just after to get a clue what may have happened. Were they automated by chance?
I'll look into it tonight.
Surprisingly, by backing up to the revision this mini was generated from I was able to use the PDB in the assets folder (very unusual this produces beneficial results) and found where the crash took place. I can hedge against that happening there and it doesn't look like it's just going to set things up for a problem later if I do so it's a good catch.
So far as I can ascertain, 2 things may have happened here. Both guesses.
I have theories but only that. I can see how scattered they are. They have an invasion force (attacking them) acting cohesively coming down from China. I think you must have scattered their focus. There's a major problem with that in the AI for attack forces. AKA, he's trying to build about 20 different attack stacks, none of which are getting enough individual attention to become a successful force and nothing is drawing them together enough, though there are some forces that will make this happen given enough time for them to reorganize themselves.
I have little to no interest in adding more cultural units. However, as I intend to teach the AI to specialize unit functions for more cohesive warfare tactics, I need to also review the units we have in the process and make sure that the land units are progressing rationally through their upgrade paths. There are unit cost issues and some other 'abilities' that it's finally time to start implementing since I'll be working with the AI to make it understand how to use these abilities both for defense and offense. It'll be an opportunity to teach the AI how to work properly with Surround and Destroy as well.
Almost all our button art is packed into the Firaxis PAK files. This means that the folders and files will not be found in the mod. The game unpacks them into memory for use during the game play.
