Upcomming v0.54 of Inter-related mod.

Before claiming it's better, i must first get it to work. I made a lot of changes in my mod, many of wich the AI need to be "aware" of. I also have to change a few things to make sure the AI can use them, like my fighters weapons were too large and the AI had troubles fiting them on it's fighters, i had to get them a bit smaller (a human player would be able to handle, but it's too much for the auto-build). The troops don't have that problem since they are bigger than the Fighters in my mod.

It might take me the week end to finish it.

Inter-Related Tactical Conversion v 0.53

http://www.rogepost.com/n/3594323592

Basically i created several sub-classes of ships/units that only contain the normal, organic and cristalline version of them. Then, created several new ships/units design types like Scout ship, skirmish ship, escort ship, assault ship, light fighter, medium fighter, heavy fighter and so on that use each size of ship/units. That part is easy, the hard part is creating a proper weighting system so the AI don't spam too many small ships or build only large ones once it can. But i guess that problem isn't new. I have my own solution for this but i'm still experiementing it.

When i release my next version, i will include my source scripts so you will be able to check out what i did in details.

Inter-Related Tactical Conversion v 0.53

http://www.rogepost.com/n/3594323592

Tonight i made a few breakthrough with the ship designs. I fixed quite a few bugs that prevented the AI from creating proper designs. I had to rewrite a lot of the code for that, some of the code used by Maran's (probably taken from Kwoks) were buggy and it took me quite a few hours to narrow all the problems down. Now it's mostly fixed and the AI do the design it's supposed to and add the right things (exept the annoying solar sail that pop up everywhere, the code i made for it don't seem to work). It's going well though, maybe another night at it and i will have a solid AI ship design...

Inter-Related Tactical Conversion v 0.53

http://www.rogepost.com/n/3594323592

Today i rooted out all the design problems, the AI does some satisfying designs. I'm now working on the AI. Currently i'm testing the default AI and fixing a few things. I found a bug in the cargo transport routine, fixed it and now cargo ships pick up stuff and drop them properly. I also found a way to make the AI use lone scout ships for patrols, wich is much better than using a whole fleet for that (not sure if i should remove the fleet order for patrol just yet though). Still fixing some weighting on production, but so far my AI does well. Might release my default AI along 0.54 very soon. Next i will start on including all the AIs.

Inter-Related Tactical Conversion v 0.53

http://www.rogepost.com/n/3594323592

For some reason my population transport kept on trying to unload it's cargo on my homeworld were it had just loaded itself. After a few turns of watching it "going in circle" i decided to check if there was a mistake in the ministers. I checked the formulas and rewrote it differently. Not sure if i did it right, but at least now my population transport load civilians at my homeworld and dump them at my largest colony to fill it up. That fix seem to work on cargo transport also, it loaded my troops / platforms and dumped them at that same colony.

Edit : I'm not certain now it does anything so i removed what i wrote about the formula. Still need some testing.

Inter-Related Tactical Conversion v 0.53

http://www.rogepost.com/n/3594323592

That formula wasn't working. I've worked on this last night and found a much better one. In my test games, my new formula work fine, my ships no longer try to fill planets that are already full or close to be. If all goes well, i will have an AI to release today with my new version of my mod.

Inter-Related Tactical Conversion v 0.53

http://www.rogepost.com/n/3594323592

Not sure what you are truly asking for, but if you want to use my mod, just unpack it in your gametypes directory (keep the directories included in the RAR file).

Inter-Related Tactical Conversion v 0.53

http://www.rogepost.com/n/3594323592