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I've got a question regarding invasions. Does the FP value scale with the general strenghth of a faction or can a faction with just one size 3 colony generate a 2k FP invasion fleet?It can make a 2k FP fleet, yes.
Hi, can I ask to add a scroll slider? Not all sliders fit into a small monitor.I can't add a scrollbar unfortunately; could move some of the options to a new menu, although that's kind of a pain.
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I have to ask, but how does the AI decide what world to colonize? Too much randomness or scripts without logic is bad.Right now what it does is
A faction should have a list of surveyed worlds. That list gets populated as player does survey mission, sells survey data and when a faction sends a survey expedition (which they should periodically do).
then when a faction decides to colonize it would select a world from the list of known world hat matches it's needs - does it need metals, fuel, farming, etc? Much more organic and allows a player to influence colonization by selling planet data or intercepting survey fleets.
Could also use some other way to detect non-random sector mode; e.g. checking if Jangala or the Corvus system exist.So basically, by copying that SectorManager.java into my mod folder, it should work without Nex?SectorManager itself has other Nexerelin dependencies, so if you go that route you'll basically end up needing to bundle the entirety of Nex with your mod. If you can't reliably import SectorManager from a script, it sounds like the only option is to compile a jar.
Would you considered adding that as a config? I don't care for the border gore caused by the random invasion target selection as the game goes on.Config might be good yeah.
Potentially, give a 3rd option for successful invasions "loot and leave" (essentially a beefier raid that loots and disrupts) and have a config that forces AI to always select that option.
It always adds mining if the planet supports it, yeah.With the ver 9 update to SS, I think making refining and fuel production industries should get a buff because mining atm is severely not worth it.
How much any industry is worth is entirely dependent on what other markets and industries are active in the game. If you do a random core worlds sector this can be wildly variable. For example, in my current game, there are only 2 markets for fuel, but everybody needs it, so I make over 100K a month making fuel on a size 4 colony. Likewise, volatile are equally profitable and rarely exploited. On the other hand, everybody has heavy industry, so even with an orbital works and pristine nano-forage I can barely pull in 5-10k a month from that industry.
I do think random core worlds has a tendency to over saturate the mining markets, as seemingly everyone on planets with ore wants to mine them, and most planets have at least some ores.
Question.They're supposed to, but looking at the code I'm not sure they actually (re)build anything on growth (only on capturing or receiving market).
If AI colonize and have enabled planetary growth(both for colonies and core worlds) do they build new industries when they can? Or rebuild destroyed ones?
I'm doing my 1st Nexerelin playtrough and have a question; Can you ever initiate things like alliances and ceasefires or is it all automated?Alliances: Dock at their market, look in the "Special options" menu
I've noticed that colonies will decivilize even if you help stabilize it after you get a notification, is there anything that can be done about that?No, but at least it'll be fixed in next Starsector version. (see here and here)
Is there a way to disable AI planet conquest? I prefer the vanilla behavior of the AI skirmishing and raiding each other with the occasional small world getting decivilized but the overall borders stay the same(ie: dark ages style limited warfare). I've tried setting "baseInvasionPointsPerFaction" to 0 but this also seems to disable raiding missions as well.Raids are currently tied to invasions (each faction will invade, then raid, then invade, and so forth) and there isn't a setting to separate them. Sorry!
Is there a way to keep the AI throwing fleets at eachother (creating market disruptions, salvage and fleet fights) without them actually taking territory?
Experiencing a weird bug. See pic below.Turns out the function used for each member faction's size was excluding non-invadable markets (when it shouldn't have), while the alliance total was counting them. This affected a bunch of stuff, although apparently not anything with any real effect.Spoiler[close]
54+19 is 73. Not sure how it's coming up otherwise.
Honestly, this does not effect gameplay at all as far as I can tell, but it feels like it might be indicative of something more important breaking down behind the scenes. Just thought you should be aware of it.
