FreeOrion

Here is another big batch of crosslinks, mostly between ship hulls and required buildings. Also corrected some wrong info caused by recent changes to organic hulls rebalancing.

revision 5649.
"another big batch of crosslinks, mostly between ship hulls and required buildings by sloth."

Excellent.

Future note:
rather than this:
"... allows development of Protoplasmic Hulls, Symbiotic Hulls, ..."
where the "s" is not part of the link and thus stands out, you could phrase it thus:
"... allows development of the Protoplasmic Hull, the Symbiotic Hull, ..."

eleazar wrote:rather than this:
"... allows development of Protoplasmic Hulls, Symbiotic Hulls, ..."
where the "s" is not part of the link and thus stands out, you could phrase it thus:
"... allows development of the Protoplasmic Hull, the Symbiotic Hull, ..."

I'd drop the articles and just put "... allows development of Protoplasmic Hull, Symbiotic Hull, ..."

I'd drop the articles and just put "... allows development of Protoplasmic Hull, Symbiotic Hull, ..."

It feels more natural with the articles. I would keep the articles for the first and last object and omit the rest: "...allows development of the Protoplasmic Hull, Symbiotic Hull, and the Bio-Adaptive Hull." something like that.

unjashfan wrote:...It feels more natural...

Define "natural"?

Many (most?) content descriptions avoid articles, eg. "Increases industry on..." not "Increases the industry on..."

Is the Scripting Work page on the wiki still relevant? If so I would like to work on some of the ship tasks.

Snowflake wrote:Is the Scripting Work page on the wiki still relevant? If so I would like to work on some of the ship tasks.

I don't believe any of those things have been done yet.

Edited to contain fixes and workarounds.
Here is a go at giving ships variable speeds depending on species.


Species.txt :
en.txt (stringtables folder) under Species Picks heading:
It works just like any other species bonus/malus.
Edited to contain fixes and workarounds.
Immobile ships will now not be affected and slow ships will not grind to a halt with ships now being given a minimum speed of 20-29 uu per turn.
This code is released under: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, and the GNU GPL 2.0 license.

Snowflake, cool, did you test it?

Snowflake wrote:'''−− Ships are 20 uus slower.'''

What's with the weird accented a's? Writing something in MS word and pasting fancy dashes into what should be UTF-8 text?

Also, never write "uus". Unit symbols don't get an s to be plural, and the point here is that it's a distance per turn, so put "uu/turn".

Also, these scripts are potentially problematic for ship designs that by default move 20 or fewer uu/turn, or for designs that aren't supposed to be able to move.

eleazar wrote:Snowflake, cool, did you test it?

Yes and it works, but my first few tries at a % increase/decrease failed so I went with a flat one.

Geoff the Medio wrote:

Snowflake wrote:'''−− Ships are 20 uus slower.'''

What's with the weird accented a's? Writing something in MS word and pasting fancy dashes into what should be UTF-8 text?

Also, never write "uus". Unit symbols don't get an s to be plural, and the point here is that it's a distance per turn, so put "uu/turn".

Also, these scripts are potentially problematic for ship designs that by default move 20 or fewer uu/turn, or for designs that aren't supposed to be able to move.

The weird text was what was in the code so I went with what was there. They supposedly represent the "-" that appear before the text on the species selection screen.
I will change the uus to uu/turn and try to find a workaround for nonmoving/slowmoving ships.

Snowflake wrote:The weird text was what was in the code so I went with what was there. They supposedly represent the "-" that appear before the text on the species selection screen.

I think you're not viewing the stringtable with a good text editor then. You need one that reads and saves as UTF-8. Some of those are minus signs, −, which are not the same character as hyphens, -.

Off the top of my head all ships have a speed much greater than 20uu, but skipping the negative version of the pick would be fine by me too.

Can we use a tag to distinguish immobile hulls from the rest?

Geoff the Medio wrote:

Snowflake wrote:The weird text was what was in the code so I went with what was there. They supposedly represent the "-" that appear before the text on the species selection screen.

I think you're not viewing the stringtable with a good text editor then. You need one that reads and saves as UTF-8. Some of those are minus signs, −, which are not the same character as hyphens, -.

I tried a different text program and you were right. The fault was with my text editor.

Could someone please drop some hints on script debugging in here or on the Wiki? As in: where do I find error messages caused by scripting? I did look at freeorion.log and freeoriond.log, but that is so cluttered with a myriad of other stuff... Since I caught hints of the code using some kind of logging facility, could effects messages be split off into another file?