Making It So Only The AI Can Use a Certain Component or Technology.

I think you can use the ability formula 'empire_is_human_controlled' and just put a NOT statement in.

Be sure to reference that requirement with "Requirements Evaluation Availability". That way, it won't even appear to the human player as an option.

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Ahh, good catch. Forgot about that. I spend more time in the script docs than the mod docs.....

Any luck with this? empire_is_human_controlled() seems to want the player number, but doesn't seem to want to work with [%PlayerNumber%] for me. How do I feed it the number it wants? Is the Human always player 1 in a solo game?

In solo games, the human player is player 1 (unless you take control of another empire using the game master password).

[%PlayerNumber%] apparently only works in VictoryConditions.txt. You might be able to convince Aaron to make it work elsewhere if you ask him...

A trick used in the AI Campaign mod for SE4 is to create a 0-point racial trait called "AI Empire" and assign all your AI-specific techs, etc. to that racial trait, then make all your AI's take that trait and tell players not to. (You could try to penalize players who do, but I'm not sure how... maybe you could make certain things that the AI *can't* use effectively but that are beneficial to a human player require that the empire *not* have that trait?)

Of course, using the racial trait route, the "AI-ness" of the empires is locked in from the beginning of the game, so if a player drops out or a human player takes over for an AI empire, the racial traits will be wrong, but that probably beats techs mysteriously appearing for an empire as control of the empire switches around - if you research even one level in a tech, it will not disappear (if I recall correctly) even if you lose the prerequisite for it! (Try making a tech that requires that, say, physics be below level 2 to see what I mean.)

Components, though, are different - if you have a component and you lose its prerequisites, you will no longer be able to place it on new designs - though you will still be able to build ships of old designs containing that component!

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