Ultimate Dominion Mod III - Beta Info

Post by **thunderchero** » Sun May 24, 2009 10:49 pm

GeorgiaBoy wrote:I was wondering if this part of trek.exe was edited to help Mentat with his Mod of UDM...

Mentat "add on" will no longer work with this version until he updates files if possible

thunderchero

Post by **GeorgiaBoy** » Sun May 24, 2009 11:13 pm

Hi thunderchero,

Yeah, I figured that

Was trek.exe edited so he could change the planet names?

GB

P.S. Have a relaxing day tomorrow...Honeydos for me!

Post by **thunderchero** » Sun May 24, 2009 11:33 pm

Mentat problem was switching his map from race to race. when he switched it AI would still be in control. so he would need to create a map for each race the exact same.

thunderchero

Post by **GeorgiaBoy** » Sun May 24, 2009 11:49 pm

thunderchero wrote:Mentat problem was switching his map from race to race. when he switched it AI would still be in control. so he would need to create a map for each race the exact same.

thunderchero

True enough, but was the new trek.exe for UDM III changed:

Open trek.exe with a hex editor and at 0xFC2E9 replace the bytes there (0F ...) with 90 90 90 90 90 90

...so that Planet names in Minors can be changed? Or maybe that is a future plan?

Post by **thunderchero** » Mon May 25, 2009 12:00 am

no reason for this change. this was issue for changing major race planets not minors.

Note to self and info for others.
I have replaced installer conflict on warzone fixed. same link as before;

Link for new multi installer;
UDMIII_3.0.0a_b
File size 87.6mb
hard drive space required 624mb

changes before final release of this version;
edit starting population for normal maps
increase minors on small and medium to max on large map.

thunderchero

Post by **GeorgiaBoy** » Tue May 26, 2009 10:06 am

thunderchero wrote:no reason for this change. this was issue for changing major race planets not minors.

Note to self and info for others.
I have replaced installer conflict on warzone fixed. same link as before;

Link for new multi installer;
UDMIII_3.0.0a_b
File size 87.6mb
hard drive space required 624mb

changes before final release of this version;
edit starting population for normal maps
increase minors on small and medium to max on large map.

thunderchero

Hi thunderchero,

I have two questions:

1) I am assuming 30 starting minors. Are all of them space-faring?
2) More generally, is the Dominion balanced with the other major powers?

Thank you for the update.

Regards,

GB

Post by **thunderchero** » Tue May 26, 2009 10:34 am

GeorgiaBoy wrote:1) I am assuming 30 starting minors. Are all of them space-faring?

if you select many in options you should get 29 of the 30 minors, and no minor that are space-faring is unchanged from last version (10)

GeorgiaBoy wrote:2) More generally, is the Dominion balanced with the other major powers?

Give it a try and you tell me,

This was attempted yes.

thunderchero

Post by **GeorgiaBoy** » Tue May 26, 2009 4:06 pm

thunderchero wrote:
GeorgiaBoy wrote:1) I am assuming 30 starting minors. Are all of them space-faring?
if you select many in options you should get 29 of the 30 minors, and no minor that are space-faring is unchanged from last version (10)

GeorgiaBoy wrote:2) More generally, is the Dominion balanced with the other major powers?
Give it a try and you tell me, This was attempted yes.

thunderchero

Out of the ten minors, do they all expand?

I will search the forums to see if I can gey more spacefaring minors...

Oh yeah, I am playing the Feds now. The Dominion appears balanced...not quite canon, but playable!

GB

Post by **thunderchero** » Tue May 26, 2009 4:32 pm

GeorgiaBoy wrote:Out of the ten minors, do they all expand?

no minor expands to other systems.

GeorgiaBoy wrote:I will search the forums to see if I can gey more spacefaring minors...

more minor races could be spacefaring, but with current ships for other race. trek.exe is full. no more room.

GeorgiaBoy wrote:Oh yeah, I am playing the Feds now. The Dominion appears balanced...not quite canon, but playable!

good to hear

thunderchero

Post by **captaindusk** » Wed May 27, 2009 1:50 am

thunderchero wrote:no reason for this change. this was issue for changing major race planets not minors.

Note to self and info for others.
I have replaced installer conflict on warzone fixed. same link as before;

Link for new multi installer;
UDMIII_3.0.0a_b
File size 87.6mb
hard drive space required 624mb

changes before final release of this version;
edit starting population for normal maps
increase minors on small and medium to max on large map.

thunderchero

Good morning. When starting a single player game with the newest UDM III version with Large Galaxies the game throws me back to desktop every 2 of 4 starting attempts. No error message. The crash happens after the race selection. Settings were Irregular/Large. Normal Galaxy sizes Version works fine. previous versions have been completely uninstalled.

Is minor shipbuilding already included or are the modified exes from previous versions still needed? I only ask because I got no option during installation as in All the Ages Mod.

Post by **thunderchero** » Wed May 27, 2009 7:43 am

captaindusk wrote:Good morning. When starting a single player game with the newest UDM III version with Large Galaxies the game throws me back to desktop every 2 of 4 starting attempts. No error message. The crash happens after the race selection. Settings were Irregular/Large. Normal Galaxy sizes Version works fine. previous versions have been completely uninstalled.

what galaxy type and size, have you checked error log?

captaindusk wrote:Is minor shipbuilding already included or are the modified exes from previous versions still needed? I only ask because I got no option during installation as in All the Ages Mod.

yes building minors is included and none of the old exe patches will work

thunderchero

Post by **captaindusk** » Wed May 27, 2009 8:13 am

Here are error logs.
Irregular Maps - Large.

ST:BOF Wed May 27 07:35:45 2009

Version Under Test: 72
File: ..\..\source\universe\readrace.c, Line: 257, 0
Initialize State: 31
Player Empire: 1 Starting Seed: 1243402545
Galaxy shape: 0 Galaxy Size: 2

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ST:BOF Wed May 27 07:42:13 2009

Version Under Test: 72
File: ..\..\source\universe\readrace.c, Line: 257, 0
Initialize State: 31
Player Empire: 1 Starting Seed: 1243402933
Galaxy shape: 0 Galaxy Size: 2

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ST:BOF Wed May 27 07:48:20 2009

Version Under Test: 72
File: ..\..\source\universe\readrace.c, Line: 257, 0
Initialize State: 31
Player Empire: 1 Starting Seed: 1243403300
Galaxy shape: 0 Galaxy Size: 2

Post by **thunderchero** » Wed May 27, 2009 8:19 am

Thanks for report,

I think I have already corrected this in next update.

thunderchero

Post by **captaindusk** » Wed May 27, 2009 8:28 am

My pleasure.

It's the least I can do to contribute to your outstanding work.

Post by **thunderchero** » Thu May 28, 2009 1:08 am

captaindusk wrote:My pleasure.

It's the least I can do to contribute to your outstanding work.

also from tests I had of this crash it is due to placement of home systems when it runs out of room to place last system far enough away from other systems. and does not effect game play just creation of map for first time.

Also just an idea you might want to uninstall and redownload to make sure you have latest version (there has been 3) 1 was only posted less than one hour.

I am also hopeful final release of this version will be out friday

thunderchero