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[TheProtagonists]

Wanted to report an interesting edge case with artillery station defense fleets. If the enemy has a ship with phase anchor, it could soft lock the capture of the artillery station as the ship will continue to escape the battle after the station is destroyed and there is nothing left. The only way to counter this is to have a ship with phase anchor of your own, and force it to suicide and activate its phase anchor to prevent the enemy ship from escaping.

[postdreamclarity]

There is bug where the game crashes (error: null) after the player engages a bounty fleet in the vicinity of an artillery station since that bounty fleet 'overwrites' the fleet that is originally defending the station.

So you get:
Bounty Fleet + Station

Instead of
Bounty Fleet + Station Defence fleet + Station

Game crashes after looting not during or the initial engagement

[Hyperion505]

I take it the artillery platforms are not supposed to fire at you after you bring them back online at your colony.

But whenever I build one, I get shot at the moment I move away from my planet.

[Killian]

You may not have seized control of all the Watchtower stations - once they're free of the AI-protection, the towers can be snagged by anyone and everyone, and they have a pretty good view range. AFAIK the station can't IFF on its own, it just takes targeting data from the towers, so if the pirates sniped one of your towers and it's feeding data to the tower that says you're hostile...

Yeah.

Speaking of which, man, the artillery stations are cool, and really well-implemented. Enough so that I thought they were a new vanilla feature I'd missed. I'm kinda surprised there isn't a giant eff-off laser option given the ranges involved and the fact that lasers travel at the speed of light, but the sheer idea also fills me with no small amount of dread because they'd probably be the most dangerous of all unless you could maintain a good parallax velocity relative to the station. As it is, I find there's an interesting balance to the existing trio of them;

- Mortars are kind of anemic on the starmap, but utterly terrifying in close combat. Their charges just annihilate any kind of fighter cover whatsoever, and are an extremely hard counter to carrier groups unless you can shoot the shells down before they detonate. Which isn't easy.
- Railguns are of moderate concern. Their burst volleys are kinda easy to avoid, and they seem a little anemic in close combat.
- Missile stations are scary on the starmap and reasonably dangerous in close combat. Those missiles are persistent as all hell, and getting interdict-pulsed is rough if you're deep in enemy territory. Great way to get caught between Ordos. The brief overload pulse they do in close combat is nasty too, but the platform itself can be overwhelmed by fighters to the point where missiles detonate just after leaving the rack, so they're not as dangerous as Mortars (in my experience, of course).

I can only imagine a laser platform would have to be approached in a spiral pattern and then unleash enough firepower to casually melt anything smaller than a cruiser in close combat.

[harukajunko]

Hey Think I ran into a Crash from this mod, not sure if it's 100% this one but the log brings up IND.EVO so I figured this would be a good spot to ask.

Spoiler

178525 [Thread-3] ERROR com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatMain  - java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at com.fs.starfarer.api.plugins.ambassadorPlugins.IndEvo_ambassadorPersonManager.g etOriginalMarket(IndEvo_ambassadorPersonManager.java:362)
   at com.fs.starfarer.api.impl.campaign.rulecmd.ambassadorRules.IndEvo_ambassadorRem oval.removeAmbassadorWithPenalty(IndEvo_ambassadorRemoval.java:33)
   at com.fs.starfarer.api.impl.campaign.econ.impl.IndEvo_embassy.notifyBeingRemoved(IndEvo_embassy.java:319)
   at com.fs.starfarer.campaign.econ.Market.removeIndustry(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.api.impl.campaign.intel.deciv.DecivTracker.decivilize(DecivTracker.java:228)
   at com.fs.starfarer.api.impl.campaign.intel.deciv.DecivTracker.decivilize(DecivTracker.java:186)
   at com.fs.starfarer.api.impl.campaign.intel.deciv.DecivTracker.checkDeciv(DecivTracker.java:181)
   at com.fs.starfarer.api.impl.campaign.intel.deciv.DecivTracker.checkDeciv(DecivTracker.java:126)
   at com.fs.starfarer.api.impl.campaign.intel.deciv.DecivTracker.advance(DecivTracker.java:77)
   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.o00000(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher$1.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

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apologies if  this was not the right place to post it, new to these fourms

[harukajunko]

ok I think I found what happened. a Rebellion de civilized one of my colonies with an embassy and ambassador and that lead to the null pointer.

[SirHartley]

What version of the mod is enabled in your game?

[harukajunko]

3.1.c is what I have.

[SlightEye]

I noticed that faction fleets can take over artillery watch towers with a hostile artillery station still in system. FE I sent a fleet to colonize an other planet in the system and let it grow for a while. When I visited later most watch towers had been taken by my faction. Saw the last ones get taken over by patrol fleets.

[Hyperion505]

You may not have seized control of all the Watchtower stations - once they're free of the AI-protection, the towers can be snagged by anyone and everyone, and they have a pretty good view range. AFAIK the station can't IFF on its own, it just takes targeting data from the towers, so if the pirates sniped one of your towers and it's feeding data to the tower that says you're hostile...

Yeah.

Yeah I double checked and even when I made sure I have all watch towers under my command (and the artillery rebuilt under my own colony), once I move after being stationary for a bit the artillery immediately targets me and just continuously targets and fires upon me.

[SirHartley]

you should probably disable dev mode...

[SirHartley]

SAVE COMPATIBLE
3.1 is sometimes save compatible with 3.0.

Download

Requires MagicLib

Requires LazyLib

There are currently no known compatibility issues with other mods.
Yes, this means it is compatible with Nexerelin and Terraforming and Station Construction.

Integrated with Version Checker

Pairs well with Grand.Colonies

as well as Substance.Abuse

Added settings, visual improvements to the artillery shots, added sound (courtesy of Harmful Mechanic, thank you!), and a new superstructure like the hypershunt - but this one is just infinitely better.

Change Log

3.1.d

General Adjusted - Made most visual effects not interactable Items Added - Settings for relic component combat drop rates (min FP, destroyed fraction) Exploration Added - A new superstructure to restore, giving access to MORE GACHA MECHANICS LETS *** GO Weapons Added - Side bar indicator for combat slow field effect Artillery Added - Star System Tag "IndEvo_SystemHasArtillery" to denote any system with an artillery Added - Star System Memory Key (boolean) "$IndEvo_SystemDisableWatchtowers" which disables watchtowers and location reporting by fleets Added - A shitload of settings to make your bones harder (or weaker) Added - Sounds for combat weapons (Courtesy of Harmful Mechanic) Added - Sounds for campaign weapons (Courtesy of Harmful Mechanic) Adjusted - Visual adjustments for mortar explosions Adjusted - Railgun damage 2500 -> 3500 Minefields Added - Settings Embassy Fixed - Crash when NPC colony decivilizes in a non-standard way (Embassy moved up on rework priority once again)

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[Challanger]

 SirHartley, hi and thanks for the mod. Was eager to move from vanilla preserving mods to something new, but.. Duzahk system always trash generated. Wish I mods could preserve vanilla seeds Duzahk layout.
 Mods:
 - Terraforming and Station Construction (v8.1.6)
 - Industrial.Evolution 3.1.e

[SirHartley]

Hi, I have no idea what you are talking about! If it's about using seeds to generate the same sector every time, that's not gonna work with mods - especially this one.

Very sorry, but I can't fix that!

[Island]

I recon the new superstructure is something that requires a new sector generation?