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So I have been running a few scenarios in the Simulator testing out Ship Capture, and it appears as though it is pretty much impossible to capture a ship that tries to run away from you, as most non-combat and ships with max range orders tend to do. The major problem I see is that the ship capture module moves to slowly to catch a ship moving at a reasonable speed 15k/s. Is this a known issue that is slated to be fixed? I looked around in the bug lists and didn't see anything on it. Are their plans to make the ship capture missile move faster?

Thanks, Forest

To celebrate the impending start of modding work, I'm making the thread now.

previous thread: http://www.spaceempires5.com/en-US/node/5120

Project Wanderers:
basic premise: this is a race that has evolved the ability to live in deep space away from planets entirely. This is planned as a racial ability.

Planned features:
There's only really one, the wanderer racial trait. There will however be a large number(200+?) of special techs that go with it.

The racial trait will give you access to the special techs. Also it will give you a boost to ship construction. However as a balancing characteristic, it will also drastically decrease the rate at which you can build facilities planetside.

I am now having a problem with AI ship design and my custom components.
My new components work fine so long as I design the ship, however the AI will not place my new bridge in it's design. This leaves the ship without a bridge and leaves a requirement unfilled to complete this ship. I'm pretty sure this is in the ai design creation script, but how do I get the script to check for a bridge if no bridge check for my bridge design and then carry on with the remainder of the ship design. This would I assume apply to crew quarters, life support, etc.
Any help would be appreciated.

Since upgrading to 1.71 I can no longer add or change the names of any techs in the TechArea.txt file.

I tried adding 2 new tech areas and everything looked fine except when I started a game, those 2 techs do not show. No error message when loading the mod.

As a test, I changed just the name of Physics tech area (added 'rty' to the end of the name only) and when I loaded a game, 'Physics rty' was not available. Neither was just 'Physics'.

Another test, I reloaded SEV without the patch to 1.71 and I'm fully able to add more techs or rename existing techs. Upgrade to 1.71, can't and new or rename existing techs.