Oh the frustration of it all!!!

Post by **MajorPayne** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:06 am

It seems my mod is just simply going to have a single crashing bug in its new patch. It would appear that everything can be built but the federation AI is causing a crash to desktop. This, for some reason happens just after 1 hour of play, so its unknown as to what the hells causing it. I've re-written the AI 3 times, and I'm just about ready to start pulling my hair out. As it is, everything is constructable and I've micro-tested the AI as well, to check it works okay with no problems. Therefore, I'll be releasing the patch as is within the next 24 hours. I do invite anyone to try to find this error, and if they find a fix then to submit it and inform me of the changes so I can do them myself. In the meantime heres a pic of one of my favourite non canon ships which Antyvirus (of SFC fame), was kind enough to rebuild at a substantially lower poly count than his original.

Post by **blindeye01** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:48 am

Fascinating design, I'd like to see the underside though too.

Post by **uss_capital** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 12:20 pm

sorry but that is one ugly ship

Post by **Captain_H** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:22 pm

My only dislike of the design is the engines, the rest is ok.

Post by **Achilles** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:08 pm

uss_capital wrote:sorry but that is one ugly ship

I'm no fed fan but you should see the high poly version, thing of beauty, though I prefer the single nacelle set version.

Post by **SaiyaJin_Dale** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:31 pm

I don't mind the design, but a next generation version of this ship would be neat, replace all current with Galaxy class parts and leave the bottom of the ship for torpedos only, no federation ship should really have more than one deflector array, they really look ugly with two

Post by **uss_capital** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:39 pm

Achilles wrote:
uss_capital wrote:sorry but that is one ugly ship
I'm no fed fan but you should see the high poly version, thing of beauty, though I prefer the single nacelle set version.

i just do not like the design , not sure why

Post by **blindeye01** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:05 am

I agree the engines do seem a bit off, but its not a bad design by any means.

Post by **uss_capital** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:02 am

only way i can be sure what the problem is , is to test and look at the files myself

Post by **cecilzero1** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:27 am

i kinda like it .... love the texures on it

Post by **MajorPayne** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:34 am

Well for further information on this ship, whilst there are mixed views from everyone here, bare in mind that this ship is supposed to also be seperatable. Only problem with the seperation is where the ship splits it has no visible bridge of any kind. Thats what put me off using a seperation for it. One other thing. The borg, have a "Transwarp Amplifier" which is buildable, and should prove highly useful (I'm not going to explain what it does. Safe to say it builds quite quickly. I'm going to do some more testing with the federation AI although I dont' hold out much hope at this point.

Post by **Achilles** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:32 am

MaP unfortunately, due to a HD error I don't have you're up to date patch so wasn't able to bug hunt :S

Post by **ryan1** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 4:43 pm

although the higher poly version is markedly better that is still a loverly ship I think, as for he AI bug I sometimes find the problem can orginiate in the odf AI settings.

Post by **Darklight** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:46 am

I look forward to playing the patch Major. Looks awesome.
If I may, maybe the crash is caused by something simple. I cannot offer any ideas as to what that simple something is but it could be something very simple. Or a problem with a model or texture.

Post by **Achilles** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:02 am

a common bug I get with AI is giving the AI new, multi-targeting special weapons that causes a crash only when they use it, not sure if this applies to A2 though.