a humble request for an addition to BAB5 A1

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:03 pm

I recently played Armada 1 and installed BAB5 including the AI patch and came upon a 'light bulb' moment during an eventful round of doom bringing. Under certain circumstances you can control and build the Narn and Centauri races but otherwise cannot. The first cirumstance involves a two player map called hidden treasures that lets you capture and then build Centauri ships and eventually structures. The second is if you tweak the starting conditions for instant match and choose to play alliances(selection located under the crew 99999 option) while selecting the interstellar alliance faction you get several ships including a narn transport. This allows you to then build narn ships and structures. Could someone edit the required fields in the "ai addon" thus making the two races accessible from the start. I.E. a buildable option from each races initial starbase or as an additional starting unit.

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 10:29 pm

I could do it for you or I could walk you through how to do it since it's not very difficult and would make a good starting point for a new A1 modder. Which would you prefer?

EDIT: Forgot to mention, I won't be able to help with this until Monday at the earliest.

Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 3:32 pm

I would like to learn but we do need to work on scheduling.

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 9:02 am

Sorry I haven't contacted you yet. Our cat recently died and we're trying to adjust.

Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 5:22 pm

completely understood and take your time grieving. i will say that i figured out how to add the ships to the maps via the map editor. i even (through the scouring the older forum topics) got those maps to work and have enjoyed that in the meantime.