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[TrashMan]

Been busy updating and re-balancing stuff.
- Many variant paid no attention to the OP limit, so I'm fixing that.
- Adding several new weapons to the VNS arsenal and changing loadouts so there's less use of other factions weapons (especially more advanced ones)
- After many test battles the balance for some things was way off.
- Paladin bumped from cruisers into capitals with corresponding tweaks.
- OP points for most ships tweaked

Alas, I can't get the animated VMLS to work
Also, no faction missions, until Okim manages to incorporate them

Release soon-ish.

[TrashMan]

6.4 Released.


Merry X-Mas

[Weltall]

Merry Christmas

[TrashMan]

I kinda rushed hat one out of the door, so feedback is appreciated.

Strange graphics/effects, balance wankery, etc...

[Darenkel]

Ironclads went 10.2 a couple days ago, any chance this is still compatible?

-EDIT- Tested it and... no, no it doesn't work.

[TrashMan]

I actually have an updated version with some new guns for the latest Ironclads...but given that Ironclads itself freezes, it's pointless to release it.

[ron]

Ironclads is working for some of us.  At least as well as anything, considering newer versions of Windows have a habit of crashing even when running nothing at all.

Go ahead and post the new one.  And ask around, to see if there's a fix for why it's crashing frequently for you.  (I had to enable save file compression over in the settings.json file to get save games to load, so I know the feeling.)

[TrashMan]

Allrighty.

I compared the Ironclads files and the only difference between the versions in in the .java file and faction files.
So I cannot explain the freeze, as I didn't change anything on my end other than add a few new weapons.

[ron]

meh ... not complaining or anything, but there's really no way I can get Mediafire to work where I am (specifically, China).

Any other locations where I can download this thing?

If so, I'll check it out ... see if I can make it work.  We might stumble over why yours is crashing.

[TrashMan]

Hm...I can try to put it somewhere else.

Either way, I put 6.5 up.
No guarantees it will work well.

The only changes Okim made (that I could see) were in the factions files, so aside from new guns and ship variants, that's the only thing changed

[ron]

OK, I got a copy (by rather circuitous route of getting someone else to pull it from Mediafire for me, and send it over Skype), and goy you some data ... see if this means anything to anybody ....
The log file looked fine until it got to this point:

Spoiler

23040 [Thread-5] INFO  data.scripts.world.FleetSpawner  - Spawning VNS main fleet in Vaynar.
23154 [Thread-5] ERROR com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatMain  - java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at data.scripts.world.FleetSpawner.vnsmain_spawner(FleetSpawner.java:1125)
   at data.scripts.world.TimeManager.runWeekly$(TimeManager.java:74)
   at data.scripts.world.TimeManager.doIntervalChecks$(TimeManager.java:136)
   at data.scripts.world.TimeManager.advance(TimeManager.java:117)
   at com.fs.starfarer.campaign.BaseLocation.advance(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.campaign.CampaignEngine.advance(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.campaign.CampaignState.advance(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.BaseGameState.traverse(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.state.AppDriver.begin(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatMain.main(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher$2.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

[close]

Needless to say, Java Null Pointer Exception was a total crash to desktop.
Now, it didn't do this with the latest version of Ironclads before plugging in the VNS package, so something has changed.
There's no way my programming skills are good enough to find exactly what, but maybe this log file will help.


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Edit:
Started a new game ... it hasn't done this again ... yet.   Will keep you informed.

[TrashMan]

As far as I can see, there are no changes in the fleet spawning file from the previous Ironclads version, and neither have I made any changes there in the VNS mod, so I have no idea why that error popped up.

[ron]

No idea about that.

Did find one minor but annoying bug, where if you take VNS military commission, fights with pirate and marauder groups don't register as enemies.  Rep -5, "not hostile with pirates" (and oddly enough, it always said "pirates", even if it was marauders or black widows.  The faction screen clearly showed that they should have been hostile with these groups.  It didn't have this bug when fighting the Russians (who were also hostile in this particular game, not sure if they always are).

[TrashMan]

Did find one minor but annoying bug, where if you take VNS military commission, fights with pirate and marauder groups don't register as enemies.  Rep -5, "not hostile with pirates" (and oddly enough, it always said "pirates", even if it was marauders or black widows.  The faction screen clearly showed that they should have been hostile with these groups.  It didn't have this bug when fighting the Russians (who were also hostile in this particular game, not sure if they always are).

Well, that's cenrtainly odd...

[ron]

"odd" ... yeah, that was kind-of the word that came to mind.  Like, how could the code get so confused as to do THAT?

Anyway, see if you can replicate it ... because it seems a minor but extremely game-significant bug.

Otherwise ... I'm really liking your mod.  One more faction, with a rather different military philosophy, to kind-of break up the stalemate, was just what Ironclads needed.