Aldebaran 2: Smax

[smacksim]

Clean up the text files? Sure!

Crash from random selection: Aware of this. I don't think it's possible to make it select the new factions, but I could change the picture to say (old faction randomizer: broken. Do not press) or some such. It may be possible to re-size the button if it cannot be eliminated. It's an interesting bug.....er...... feature

Home in a week or so,

Smack

[Lord Nword]

Acceptance noted.

For the mandibles thing, i changed the line to

When next we meet, I will be blasting your little villages to pieces, $NAME3! Fare poorly!

*goes on to the less creative part...*

[Lord Nword]

Attached is are the 3 .txt files that have been updated. The spacing and whatnot is all uniformly the same.

[smacksim]

[Lord Nword]

Another thing I can do for the mod is put in tons of extra base names... for those of us that like to build like crazy :roll:

That's all explained in the thread about Base Names.

[smacksim]

I saw that...so you're saying that a faction can have limitless base names? If so, please go right ahead.

[#endgame]

I mean make the third button 'The Aldebaran Factions' and build a new button graphic from the faction leader images.

[Lord Nword]

Speaking of graphics, is the image on the first post of this thread supposed to replace the normal Alpha Centauri Picture that is the backdrop for the main menu of the game?

[Lord Nword]

Here's what I was getting at in the above post....

(ignore my crappy text styles...)

Two things about it though: I thought it'd be a bit better if we used the actual Alpha Centauri Font that comes with the game.

Second, as you can see, I lazily and roughly represented where the menu buttons are for the game; so you want the game title out of the way.

And someone else can do the actual work for making the text look spiffy and whatnot like in the current image on the first post.

[Lord Nword]

YAWN.....

Well I finished doing the faction names, that's a lot of copy/paste/replace/rinse/repeating to do.... for THIRTY factions (super AI and regular both)....
(also two other files, the basenames.txt and a .txt file stating what the different suffixes are for each faction)

It works fine to go ahead an replace all the faction files with these.

Already existing games will treat the lists as completely new and use them. You'll get some duplicate bases, but SMAC is smart enough to add a -2 to the end... i.e. New Rome and New Rome-2.

[smacksim]

Originally posted by #endgame
I mean make the third button 'The Aldebaran Factions' and build a new button graphic from the faction leader images.

I understand. However, I think this might not be possible. The button is linked to randomizing the factions and I've never seen the code that controls the button. Copy?

Thanks for the base names Lord N.

The graphic for the front page has been done. I've not uploaded it yet. I'm on vacation, so give it a week.

[Lord Nword]

(See Edit 2)

It looks to me like the Nauticons aren't getting their special of no negative affects from Military Production.

I'm 100% sure that I'm playing the regulars, not the AI...

From the aquatic.txt file

#AQUATIC
Nauticons, The Aquatic, Nauticon, M, 2, Skipp, M, -1, 0, 0, 1, 1,
FACILITY, 28, TECH, Industs, SOCIAL, +MORALE, SOCIAL, --RESEARCH, SOCIAL, +INDUSTRY, SOCIAL, -EFFIC, UNIT,1, ROBUST, INDUSTRY, IMPUNITY, Military
Economics, State, INDUSTRY

So I don't know what's wrong... Unless it needs to say SOCIAL before IMPUNITY? Or that Military is not the correct SEC reference?
Or am I thinking of IMMUNITY?

Edit: Also, isnt' the Nauticon supposed to be aquatic? Because they certainly aren't...

Reference:
#PIRATES
Nautilus Pirates, The Buccaneer, Pirates, M, 2, Svensgaard, M, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1,
TECH, Mobile, TECH, DocFlex, SOCIAL, -GROWTH, SOCIAL, -EFFIC, FREEFAC, 28, AQUATIC, 0, FREEABIL, 26
Values, Power, SUPPORT

Dunno if that 0 after AQUATIC is important. My guess is that it is

Edit2: It looks to me like we're trying to do too much with the Nauticon Faction... It already has 9 statements, of which the game only reads the first 8. And that's without Aquatic... I'm pretty sure you know what I'm talking about.

Edit3: About renaming the Random factions button, i did find the spot for renaming it (though not what choices belong there).
Look near the very bottom of the labels.txt file... Whether you knew this already, I don't know

CHOOSE YOUR FACTIONS
The Original SMAC Factions
The New Factions
Mix Old and New Factions
CHANGE NAME
QUOTE
PLAY RANDOM FACTION
PLAY SELECTED FACTION
RANDOM

[smacksim]

Ugh, the Nauticon had Aquatic, 0 last time I played them...I wonder how that got dropped?

I was aware of the labels.txt It's the button behavior that I suspect is not accessible. My only hope is that the button shape is defined in system.txt or elsewhere and I can reduce it's size to zero.

See Chaos Theory's posts r/e the number of special faction abilites possible. Still, this doesn't explain how I trimmed their aquatic nature. I've made significant changes since 2.0.9 to several factions and the SE table. I will make sure to incorporate your base names and do some playtesting before the overdue update next week.

-S

[GeoModder]

Smacksim, there is a delay in the graphics of the Planetlovers, I bought a new computer and can't access the data on my old one ATM for at least the remainder of this week.

[#endgame]

Why not put the Aldeb factions over the old faction buttons - have the 'Standard Aldeb factions' and the 'SuperAI factions'.

Or you could try the labels.txt thing and change the label to 'DONTPUSHTHISBUTTONUNLESSYOUWANTSMACTOCRASHANDLIKE DELETINGYOURALPLACENTARUI.INIFILE'

or some similar

and change the graphic to something like a big 'NO' symbol.