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Rathan · Space Emperor Joined: Jun 07, 2005

The empire files seem to be missing from version 15. When I try to use the ones from 14, i get the "unable to load" error.

Fyron · Galactic Guru Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: CA, USA

I never made any empire files for 0.15.xx. 0.16.00 was not supposed to take this long to create...

Empire files and savegames are generally incompatible between major version numbers. This is the reason for such major version number changes.

DanaO · Space Emperor Joined: Oct 31, 2005

Human players currently (in the development version) will have serious trouble designing effective fighters. This might not be a bug, as the version notes so say more fighter-specific weapon families will be added in the future.

Basically, there are no weapon components for fighters other than the "FS" series which only targets other fighters, as well as Small Rocket Pods and Kamikazi Warheads, which I assume simply haven't been removed yet. Conventional weapons have had "Vehicle Type" edited to ensure they can't be placed on fighters. As I said, this in itself isn't a bug. Unfortunately, Space Empires IV's vehicle design AI couldn't care less what the "Vehicle Type" line in Components.txt says. It can happily use Orbital Fighter and Micro Mounts on conventional weapons.

This isn't too big a deal unless human players want to play with a custom race or design their own ships, in which case it seriously complicates planetary defense, which now depends a lot more on fighters. I posted this simply because I didn't see this detail mentioned and felt it should be on the list of things to take care of before the next stable release.

OMEGABORG0001 · Space Emperor Joined: Oct 05, 2005

Well... i can't use any shield for fighters or troops. Maybe it's on purpose, bu i wish i could use shields for those designs Sad

Some weapons for "normal" race are way far cheaper and stronger than monsters ripper beam. Well, in my humble opinion monster should be a major threat for other races, after all they can't colonize anything.

Fyron · Galactic Guru Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: CA, USA

Dana0:

Thank you for your report. I am aware of this issue. New fighter weapnos will be added once I get Energy and Machine weapons finalized.

Omegaborg:

Leaky shielding does not work on units. Thus, they have no shields. Instead, you can use armor on them. Armor and shields work practically the same on unit hulls due to the lack of component damage, so you do not lose anything from not using shields.

Monsters also have negative maintenance. The more ships they build, the more they can support. I will probably need to beef up their bombs, but they should function better against planets now that there are no planet-mounted weapons. I'm not sure what the current monster balance is, but I do not think that a bit more weapon cost will have much effect.

douglas · Space Emperor Joined: Mar 25, 2005

Organic Nomad races have to pay 3% maintenance on their transport ships, while the other paradigms get the 1% rate quoted in the Ultra-Recycler description. I don't think this is intentional.

wicky · Space Emperor Joined: Feb 23, 2006

Adamant Mod 0.15.00 goes not!

The FQM Version with 45.56MB was downloaded and extracted into "\Space Empires IV\ Adamant\" folder.
The path.txt was edited to read the folder like in the readme.txt

Now when I start SE it shows a change with the new Adamant Loading Screen, and then an error happens. Here:

Components Data File Errors: c:\games\se4\adamant\data\components.txt

Unknown value "Generate Points Intelligence" for Ability 5 Type in record "Basic Bridge"... REPEAT 100x with other values

But after this error it stops. I can only quit or view the credits because the "start new game" button is greyed out.

Could anyone help me please?

CaptainKwok · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:39 pm Post subject:

You're not using SE:IV version 1.91 or higher. Those abilities (described in your error) were added in that patch.

wicky · Space Emperor Joined: Feb 23, 2006

Thank you very much Smile

ekolis · Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject:

The Energy paradigm weapons "Maser" and "Pulse Maser" cannot use the Standard base mount - is that intentional?

Dekazingy · Space Emperor Joined: Nov 16, 2006

Dunno if this is rooted in the stock files or Adamant, but when I start a game with more than one homeworld in the player settings, I occasionally start with the maps to one or more systems elsewhere in the quadrant - ones that my race hasn't seen yet.

Fyron · Galactic Guru Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: CA, USA

That is a game feature. You usually see more systems if you start more spread out than just a single system.

Dekazingy · Space Emperor Joined: Nov 16, 2006

Adjacent systems would make sense in that regard, but ones 2 or 3 warps away certainly don't. Neutral

I seem to be missing Malfador's logic, again.

aussiegaz · Space Emperor Joined: Jan 07, 2007

Not sure if this is a bug or intentional.

The Space Monsters love to build lots of drones (in my current game anyway).

Neither my Point Defence Weapons, Flak Cannons or Aegis Defence Grids will target drones in tactical combat (& presumable strategic combat).

Shouldn't drones be treated much the same as fighters?

Artscrafter · Space Emperor Joined: Jan 21, 2007

A couple of bugs I've noticed:

1) With the most recent version (at least as of a week or so ago) of both AdamantMod and the Image Modpack, a few facilities will fail to load their descriptions, occasionally referring to a particular image file not being found (despite it being there when I check.) The one I can think of offhand is the research center for the energy race (possibly for other races too, since I've only played Magic and Energy so far.)
2) Some of the AI's seem VERY reluctant to colonize anything. I'm 216 turns into my current game and the 4 randomly generated AI's (Jraenar, Dwarves, Xi'Chung and Sev, for the record) all still have only their 3 starting planets. One of the neutral players has colonized to having 5 planets by now, but that's it.
3) Druidic Enclaves take priority over Gaian Presence when "Only Latest" is set, even when the latter has a stronger effect.
4) I'm getting divide by zero errors when starting troop combat (and SE doesn't handle these well - I had to alt-tab and force quit the program.) I've figured out what's causing this one - the combat system doesn't seem to like dealing with components with zero damage resistance. (The enemy planet had a handful of troops with nothing but a troop logo on them - 0 tons, 0 resistance.) Doing a global find and replace in components.txt where all instances of

Fyron · Galactic Guru Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: CA, USA

CapnKy · Space Emperor Joined: Jan 01, 2005

You made a FUBAR, Fyron. You know which one it is. Razz

CapnKy · Space Emperor Joined: Jan 01, 2005

You made another boob, Fyron. Expected results for Integration 4 is "Machine Computer Combat". Integration's Max Level is 3. Razz

CapnKy · Space Emperor Joined: Jan 01, 2005

I found another one! Troop Armour Mounts can't be used on Crystalline Armour.

Frats · Space Emperor Joined: Feb 03, 2007

Organic Gamma Bombs don't just damage shields, they damage everything.

Also, the technology for Organic Weapon Platforms is still present; although nothing can be gained by upgrading.

Artscrafter · Space Emperor Joined: Jan 21, 2007

Harvester · Space Emperor Joined: Apr 20, 2006 Location: Lutsk

My computer refuses to load Adamant FQM (freezes at various stages from 20%, 64%, 80% ect). But Adamant Lite loads successfully and can be played out.

How much am I missed changing to Lite?

And I heard the files header in *.bmp can be responsible for. All *.bmp begin with "42 4D" in hex, father codes are different. I am tired to convert 3000+ files with infan view. May exists a simpler way to mass change file's headers?

And rather personal opinion: people in adamant is too tiny - 5 kT per million is 5 kg per person Smile

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Fyron · Galactic Guru Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: CA, USA

Irfanview has a batch conversion utility... File > Batch Conversion.

Harvester · Space Emperor Joined: Apr 20, 2006 Location: Lutsk

After installing (and playing) the Mod ship's movement and related animation become much slower then in stock and other Mod. (Affect also other mod)

I think it should be regulated anywhere but do not find where. (unsetting "Animate ship movement..." do not bring desirable result (ships jump on squares) Question

Fyron · Galactic Guru Joined: Aug 04, 2003 Location: CA, USA

Adamant does not alter anything that would slow down ship movement.