FreeOrion

They are.

Seems to work fine.


Yeah, it's fine now.

CreateShip still doesn't work. The freeoriond.log says something about looking up the environment types for species "", which seems to indicate that the problem is that the newly created ship doesn't have a species associated with it.

Also, food consumption is working properly now.

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I'm going to delay the fix of this until after v0.3.15, if it's not a huge major big problem...

If ships can't be created, the colony base doesn't work, and expansion becomes brutally slow. I can "fix" this for now by just cutting the cost of the colony ship parts to make actual colony ships less expensive, though.

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*sigh* OK. Can you post a save to test with? Immediately before the CreateShip effect would be used. Edit2: nevermind, it's easy to replicate.

Edit: I don't know if it's the cause of the problem, but the planned logic for created ships' species is:
* If the source is a planet, use that planet's species.
* Else, if the source is a building, use that building's planet's species.
* Else, if the target is a planet, use that planet's species.
* Else, if the target is a building, use that building's planet's species.
* Else, if the empire id that is to own the ship has a capitol planet, use that planet's species.
* Else, abort.

Sound reasonable for what you're trying to do?

Eventually I'll probably add a species parameter to the effect, but not for v0.3.15.

Edit3: The problem is unrelated to species. It seems to have been due to me changing from "health" to track ship damage, to "structure". Ship now don't have a health meter, but I was trying to set it when creating the new ship.

Edit4: Should be fixed.

- Selecting a colony ship, then opening the system sidepanel doesn't make the colonize planet button appear. The ship must be deselected, then reselected before the colonize order can be given.

- Food consumption predictions for the next turn assume that the population is not starving and will continue to grow, which causes them to be wrong when there's actually not enough food.

- Increasing the decay of meters when they're above target via content files works fine, but the predicted meter value for the next turn doesn't take it into account. As a result, meters say they're decreasing at a rate of 1 per turn when they're actually decreasing at 2 per turn.

- Ship design descriptions don't take into account additional/optional effects groups when calculating stats. I've changed stealth and detection parts so that the bonus comes from these effects groups, so that they can be put in a stacking group, which means that stealth and detection values in design descriptions are off whenever one of these parts are present.

Of course, none of these can really be considered huge major big problems...

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There's no really any way to fix that easily. Since effects on parts could have arbitrary conditions or refer to arbitrary meter values, it's in general not possible to assign a single value to a meter due to a custom meter effect. As such, the "stats" that are used for autogenerated design descriptions are only the stuff that's specified in the list of name = value lines in part or hull descriptions.

I think tzlaine and I discussed adding an optional stacking group string to stats, though, which would resolve that specific issue. But in general, if you want accurate descriptions with complicated effectsgroups, you'll need to write your own custom description.

- planets with a target population of 0.1 (or presumably anything less than 1) continue growing until they reach a stable population of 1.

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I think this has been fixed.

- after a colony ship has been ordered to cancel colonization, it can't be re-ordered to colonize on that turn.

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-Effects groups altering Health appear to be working 4 times per turn. The following effects groups from species.txt, meant to increase health growth to 3 per turn, end up increasing it to 9 per turn:

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Does that really only affect just health meters, and not all non-max non-target meters that have associated max or target meters? (Which are the current population, health, farming, mining, industry, trade, research, construction, fuel, shield, structure and defense meters.)

I haven't checked construction, fuel, shield, structure or defense yet, but the resource meters are definitely fine for this, and work as predicted with a tech designed to increase growth to 3 and decay to 5.

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This is now done. CreateShip requires a species parameter. The species can be hard coded, "SP_HUMAN", or reference the source or target objects: eg. Source.Planet.Species or Target.Species

CreateBuilding can also now reference objects for its building type name: Target.BuildingType (assuming the target is a building). You could also reference the Source object, though I don't imagine that would have much use when you could just hard-code the building type name in that case.

This should be fixed.

This effects group in species.txt:causes the game to hang on Production and Growth, with "Universe::Destroy called for nonexistant object with id: 249283"

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