Unless anyone has actually gotten rid of culture this way, it might be safe to change it to "-0.0000000001". For all we know  they use that number to divide something by, which could cause a crash.

Yup. I had the exact same thing when I was working on Requiem in Diplomacy.

While I never figured out what it was, I now remember being fairly convinced it had something to do with the GalaxyScenarioDef file and galaxy creation (No other files crashes as often without any sort of warnings). I think the Distant Stars guys also had this and managed to fix it, but they never told me enough to figure out exactly what the issue was for them.

Or maybe its not the same thing. Just when we think us modders think we have everything figured out, one of us finds an error even the devs didn't know existed. Go figure.

I do realize I'm likely late on this, but last night I realized that 1.1 added some lines to Gameplay.constants.

Oh the mysteries of sins MDs...hell, I had the space ponies crash my game all the time because I renamed the file....

Don't know what to tell you...removing it from manifest, GSD, and all planet entities still resulted in MDs...

Huh. This is so confusing. I re-did the gameplay.constants with the AI retreat changes, the 0 entries for critical hit stuff, the damage values, and the population/culture numbers. It's still crashing incessantly. It's almost like it crashes the second a scout is about to pop into a planet (but without actually leaving hyperspace). I tried returning the critical stuff to defaults but it's still exploding.

So inconsistent, and the total lack of error messages doesn't really help.

/e

It isn't always the first scout that crashes, it can be the second. I played on a 1v1 map, defeated myself to spectate, and the AI launched two scouts. The first hit a asteroid with no problems. The second crashed before it left hyperspace on a second asteroid.

Also, to clarify, I did not even run a modified scenario def file until I started crashing. I added one to change the default ships to my new ones in case defaults were crashing.

/e 2

Another observation on my blood bath map. Again, the scouts to the first neutral planet were fine. Then the second set of scouts were about to hit my homeworld, and it crashed.

/e 3

Third observation. All scouts went through fine. First capital and colony ship hit a planet. Crashes soon after. I had reset the culture numbers to their default settings.

/e 4

I restored default gameplay.constants and crashes all vanishes. I restored mine, restored default AIretreat. Crashes again. Now going to try restoring the default armor types.

/e 5

What the hell, how can this still be crashing?!

/e 6

It has mysteriously stopped crashing for several tests. I am too enraged to deal with this any more, so I'm going to go back to modeling.

Is there a way to have a different target count per weapon?

For instance, I would like to have 2 guns at the front bank of a ship.
One I want to be a powerful 1 target beam, while the other to be a multiple target low strength laser.

If not possible, would creating some kind of free auto-cast ability for the beam weapon work as a workaround for something like this?
Can you lock an ability to a weapon bank\arc?

Also, how does the TargetCountPerBank work exactly?
If the TargetCountPerBank is 2, is it per bank entirely, or per weapon per bank. ie, would it be possible to have 2 weapons on a bank fire at 2 different units each, totalling 4? or would both weapons fire at only the same 2 units?

^Are you spawning the artifact in a group "Always" with "NoOwner"?

No

With Rebellion this is possible with ApplyBuffToTargetsInDirectionalCone.

The weapons would all fire on the same targetted unit. 

It's mostly cosmetic when adding multiple weapons unless they have different AttackType's.

I am getting alot of Text FileArchive missing Label errors for my mod.

As far as I can tell they don't really break anything, but its something I just need to fix.

Doing some research I'm pretty sure it is because I'm using reference files from 1.1 (The only ones I can find a link to download here?)

I only just realised (to my ignorance) that the current version is 1.6.

Is there a way to update my modded files somehow? Is there a reference file pack for 1.6? or do I have to convert everything manually?
Does this mean I have to basically redo all of my mod files?

Rebellion.

I'll post the errors if that will help.

xviper123 the latest version of rebellion IS 1.10 which you will automatically get if you have steam set to update rebellion when you go online, and I checked just after the lat post of mine.

harpo

xviper123, all you had to do to confirm the rebellion version is to look at the bottom right corner of the main menu screen and you will see the rebellion version number.

harpo