The station upgrades are killing me! Unintended errors are saved and prevent later adaption of the same name. My build lacks many of the in game abilities so cross walking orbitals and upgrades to abilities in many cases can't be concluded. I'm almost to the point of committing what I have and hope the next build you send me will allow me to finish cross connecting all the moving parts. This will be a 95% Rebellion tech rebuild for EA, but that last 5% will be many of the connections and vital for the update being functional.

Also, not sure how AbilityALevel and WeaponUpgradeLevel are defined when selected within the station upgrade tabs. It was straightforward when I was manually handjamming all the entity files.

Nice Leshath model. Where will the team colors on this model be exhibited?

Edit: Post is time late as my router was acting up and would not connect anything other than the phones for the better part of a day.

Man that is a purty ship, TobiWahn.

After a nights sleep I dug into the existing starbase builds and figured it out. EA military base to go and then time to commit.

I am not using team colours (except for the Jumpgate) as that would be visually divergent from Babylon 5
But perhaps some talented texturer figures out a way to use team colours gracefully.

Thanks, as said it is part Thoumsin, part me. Where the hell is Thoumsin anyways? He still owes me a Babylon 5 station

Cool. Looking forward to the commit.

Added the Minbari Announce from NewHorizons to the repository.

Hi Darvroth,

I'm sorry to have bestowed so much pain upon you. I've now uncovered errors in the ModDB that prevented you from creating abilities (I now know what you were talking about). I've corrected what I found (duplicating abilities works now as well) and will distribute a new build to you and NewHorizons this weekend if you like.

Again, sorry for the pain and grief

On a side-note, I've created myself a Database to manage our issues in Bitbucket a bit more comfortable. I can give this to you as well if you like (it is rudimentary, but issue management is complete). Only thing that is not working is adding attachments to issues, for that you will still have to visit the website (the REST API unfortunately does not support this)

Oh, and I updated the Mega download Link, it was no longer correct. Now downloading the preview is possible again.

Vindication. No problem, your DB is still easier to work with and more consistent than hand jamming in Notebook++. My EA re-write isn't quite as complete as I thought. Give me a bit more time and I'll commit what I have with most issues known. You can bundle that with your DB improvements then I'll take that and clean it up and recommit which should resolve EA except for abilities. I'll stress, my EA rewrite in its current form is broken and will have to remain an internal build until I can complete all the connections then its just a matter of bug hunting anything I missed.

Once the DB allows me to build abilities, there is a large glut in various tickets in Bitbucket that I can import which will move us substantially closer to a Beta build.

The DB version I have doesn't allow me to assign xp for star base upgrades, not sure if that is bug or a data field you are holding at your level.

I don't think there many are other fragments of SotYR's music that lend themselves to such short event sounds.

Some of the standard Sins announcement themes may work - Vasari's for the Narns, Advent's for the Vorlons for example. The TEC one works equally well for EA or Centauri, just a pity we don't have another to distinguish between the two. Not sure what Shadow music sounds like - even less sure I want to find out!

Yep, found a few other of these bugs that might have created a problem with Starbases and Titans. Basically, I've changed the primary key from a number to a UUID to allow for editing of the DB by multiple users. Yet I forgot to change the fields from type number to type text.

Fixed that now.

Well, I needed to test my BitBucket Issue DB , therefore the fix was a test on my part. As for the rest of the sounds, I agree. Though masochistic as I am, I'm really anxious to hear a shadow announcement.

Read through a lot of the tickets you changed to open, a lot of work has already been done, just a matter of importing into the (repaired?) DB. We could actually close a lot of tickets in the near future with some effort.

That is the intent. I will first change the tickets with status new to open (if ticket is valid) and assign a Milestone or Assignee.

Btw. I've committed a v1.80 compatible build to the repository, the ModDB is already 1.80 compatible.

Any chance you could release a new 1.80-compatible pre-release after you start closing some of those tickets?

Agreed, those of mine that could be imported are

#113, Planet names

#157, Centauri Mass Driver effect

#161, Tinashi clone ability

I'll upload a new GalaxyScenarioDef for #139 (as that's out-of-date wrt Rebellion 1.80) so that can be imported too.

I plan to release a new nightly build for 1.80 this weekend.

Cool, but you could actually update your repository to get the 1.80 compatible GalaxyScenarioDef I've submitted today, add what you need and recommit the changes directly to the repository using your git client.

TobiWahn,

Just sent you my commit data. Looking forward to receiving the latest build so I can finish the EA and start importing abilities we have in the tickets.

Darvroth

If Random Events are enabled, then you'll get a crash when the game attempts to spawn one. After referring to Goa's & Zombies's thread, it just looks like we need to include some more stuff into entity.manifest.:-

entityName "STAR_BLACKHOLE.entity"
entityName "STAR_NEUTRON.entity"
entityName "STAR_PULSAR.entity"
entityName "AbilityAntimatterFountain.entity"
entityName "AbilityComet.entity"
entityName "AbilityIceField.entity"
entityName "AbilityRadiationStorm.entity"
entityName "AbilityShatteredMoon.entity"
entityName "AbilityStarBlackHole.entity"
entityName "AbilityStarNeutron.entity"
entityName "AbilityStarPulsar.entity"
entityName "BuffAntimatterFountainTarget.entity"
entityName "BuffCometTarget.entity"
entityName "BuffIceFieldTarget.entity"
entityName "BuffRadiationStormTarget.entity"
entityName "BuffShatteredMoonTarget.entity"
entityName "BuffStarBlackHoleTarget.entity"
entityName "BuffStarNeutronTarget.entity"
entityName "BuffStarPulsarTarget.entity"
entityName "PlanetAntimatterFountain.entity"
entityName "PlanetComet.entity"
entityName "PlanetIceField.entity"
entityName "PlanetRadiationStorm.entity"
entityName "PlanetShatteredMoon.entity"
entityName "PlanetShipGraveyard.entity"
entityName "RandomEventCoronalMassEjection.entity"
entityName "RandomEventCoronalMassEjectionTarget.entity"
entityName "RandomEventCultureExplosion.entity"
entityName "RandomEventCultureImplosion.entity"
entityName "RandomEventEconomicDownturn.entity"
entityName "RandomEventEconomicUpturn.entity"
entityName "RandomEventGammaRayBurst.entity"
entityName "RandomEventGammaRayBurstTarget.entity"
entityName "RandomEventMagneticStorm.entity"
entityName "RandomEventMagneticStormTarget.entity"
entityName "RandomEventOpenRebellion.entity"
entityName "RandomEventPartisansPhase.entity"
entityName "RandomEventPartisansPsi.entity"
entityName "RandomEventPartisansTech.entity"
entityName "RandomEventPirateTitan.entity"
entityName "RandomEventPlasmaStorm.entity"
entityName "RandomEventPlasmaStormTarget.entity"
entityName "RandomEventProjectileCoronalMassEjection.entity"
entityName "RandomEventProjectileGammaRayBurst.entity"
entityName "RandomEventProjectileMagneticStorm.entity"
entityName "RandomEventProjectilePlasmaStorm.entity"

Just had a minidump playing Centauri (V1.8), not sure if the random bug reported by NewHorizons is the culprit or not.

Hi guys 'n gals,

I've not yet updated the last dev build for you to download, as I've encountered a show stopping bug (issue 164 I believe, if you want to look it up). Mainly, half of the victory conditions crash, some on load (flagship victory), others on returning to the main menu. After that is sorted, I will release another "nightly" build.

Thanks, already noticed myself and changed. Also, I've change the galaxyScenario so it should now be correct (mostly). It's checked in the repository. Thanks for your help.

Sent you the link for the latest ModEditor per mail.

How far into the game did it happen?

There's also some bad file names in the manifest, eg "StarBase_Upgrade__..." , note the double underscore.

A bit more than 4 hours (I was doing other things (life not the computer) so it was more a background task). Research was about 2/3 complete overall and capital victory was set. Upon reload and exit one of the factions did not register on the post game statistics, not a smoking gun but...

PlayerShadow.entity was using

Corrected and will be submitted soon. Thanks

Corrected. Found that myself too

Flagship victory crashes because we have no Flagship entities specified. And we do not have the respective entities yet - any suggestions for Flagships for each race?

If I recall the designated flag ship is the starting flagship. For EA, Minbari, Shadow and Vorlon the initial capital ship is sufficiently tough to serve the role; Centauri and Narn do not have a sufficiently tough capital ship. The only work around I see would be to pick a representative capital ship from each race. If the Flagship Victory selection can bypass research prerequisites, then I'd choose the following:

EA - Omega Destroyer

Narn - G'Quan

Centauri - Octurion

Minbari - Sharlin

Shadow - YBC

Vorlon - Light Cruiser

That was true up to, and including, Diplomacy, but in Rebellion it is a different (non-levelling) unit, with different abilities, that is based on the race's battleship.

I agree broadly with Darvroth's suggestions, maybe using Primus for Centauri, for no reason better than what was shown in the series.

You'd have to be careful with the Shadows & Vorlons though as their cap ships aren't normally available until some research has been done. Granting them instant access to a powerful cap ship could give them an unfair advantage at the start of a game. Maybe their flagships could be weakened in some way to balance things out, although that does sound a bit counter intuitive - not much of a flagship if it's weaker than the standard unit.

Another option would be seriously improve the flagships of the EA, Narn & Centauri maybe using a Sharoos/Sharkaan for Minbari, but then neutral militia wouldn't be much of an obstacle.

Tricky one this ...