weird...  it's remind me for my own problem... i run my mod in developer mode... in two weeks i got 4 times a minidump without any error description by the developer... and all minidumps were different situations... is it possible that the entrechment 1.01 isn't stable and kills itself?

Then don't play as the Rogues.  Play as the Kohr-Ah.  They are real big on expansion and conquest.

lol i never use this. and my mod is for entrenchment. anyway, i have greatly decreased the amount of skills and whatnot, but now it is error testing time, /sigh. thanks

edit: i have played as them again, clicked every button, built everything, but from what i can see form 1-3secs of recorded game, they don't do anything but send scouts out in the beginning. then it dumps

error pinpointed: (well, at least one) when you try to do a fleet research of either the first max cap or ship slot without a base, you get a minidump. now i cannot figure out why it is not just kicking out an error message like the others would, i just copy-pasted the player file.

edit 2: i give up. that was not the main error, as it seems, even when i keep all the files the same, just change the race names and skins, basically, i get instant minidumps. frustrating. and it started out as such a good idea.

edit 3: so i guess the question is, when you create a new player race, what files, in total, do you need to add/edit. Obviously a new race, and the english.string additions, done. GalaxyScenarioDef.galaxyScenarioDef to add the start and quick start, done. Obviously a player(race).entity. done. The additions to entity.manifest. done. and then my new ships and modules, done and done.

I can play as the new race, click every button in research, with labs or not, build all ships, capitals, modules, defense, that i have, all new. i even beat the game, ok nps. then i put the new race as AI and insta-dump. obviously, the game doesn't progress for a recorded viewing, so WHAT THE HELL is the AI doing that is causing this? show errors is on, same as log output, i get nothing. i try everything and it seems I cannot produce this insta-error.

/sad

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Howdy! Just a couple questions relating to Tricky Quirks of the game engine I'm hoping you might be able to shed light on. Apologies if this is asking a lot, but I figure my odds are better here than anywhere else (short of a developer)

1. Is it possible to modify what buttons appear on the Tactics Management menu? Could you put an ability there, for example, and thus fake a new 'setting' with the right .entity tricks?

2.  Are you able to make an ability/buff change a weapon to be able to target fighters if it isn't normally, or the like? If not, would it be possible to 'fake it' somehow?

3. Can you render a ship specifically immune to certain debuffs? Immune to movement or weapon disablers, for example.

4. Just how different does the game code treat strike craft vs frigates? Is it possible to, say, grant strike craft abilities, antimatter, etc? Can you have mixed units inside a strike craft squadron? (I suspect not, but I may as well ask!)

5. How do construction menus work? I'm pretty sure they should be in an .entity file, but my searchings so far have been counterintuitive. Can you create a ship that acts as a mobile factory, and if so, could you make it a spaceships special ability (or at least fake it somehow)?

The game as a whole seems to leave a wonderful amount in scripts, and then hardcode the most maddenly arbitary things... so with any luck you can save me a lot of headaches by drawing the lines in the sand.

Are you aware that when you play as any race in 7DS besides the 3 staring races, the TCA, the Unity, Or the Dark Fleet the loading screen characters are messed up. They are cut in half or in the middle of the screen or the wrong character is shown half way on the side or a combination of these things. Im just wondering why, I think only the TEC guy the Vasari king or whatever and the weird Advent lady work as pictures.

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ok everyone i need more help i have made a good map using galaxy forge for sins 1.05 and i am using it to make 7 deadly sins plants and i have 7 deadly sins 1.3 but on the loading screen of the map it mini dumps....anyone know why and how to fix it?

harpo no i just tried an idea?

indeed

-Teal'c

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yep, I found that problem. You mean, did I experienced the minidump while autosave? No, I didn't... It was just coincidence... common coincidence

Is there a way to increase the rate at which autorecord records a game? Is there a way to keep a game consistantly recording, so I can view it all the way up to a minidump?

I've been testing my mod in 2 different ways. One is just me looking for minidumps by doing everything and especially the latest addition.

I've discovered a more thorough way to find errors is to have the AI on Unfair Researcher run for a while on a map where you're seperated. I want to see what they do all the way up to the minidump. It's peculiar, because the minidump seems to happen right before, after, or at the second autosave.

I've run it nonstop with the other races while doing everything possible on my own, and no minidumps. It's a new race that seems to minidump always at the same time given the same map. They aren't doing anything out of the ordinary that I do.

I changed the tick rate for autosave to 15 seconds, and it minidumps on the same map right at the 120th autosave, which is precisely where autosave 2 is at 900 seconds (regular autosave). If I load the 120th autosave with me as my new race, It works fine. Nothing particular is going on. At the 120th autosave, 1 extra military research facility is in the process of building, and one planet is in the process of finishing an upgrade. Therefore, I think it may have to do with what the AI expects to be available to it. The minidump just always seems to occur at exactly 30 minutes into the game.