Is Space Cloud Domesticatable?

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n00b
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Is Space Cloud Domesticatable?

#1 Post by n00b »

will and outpost with Cloud Spawns create domesticated space clouds?

Bonus points if you can explain how a noob could have answered their own question by looking at the code.

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Re: Is Space Cloud Domesticatable?

#2 Post by Oberlus »

What are Cloud Spawns?

You can go to your scripting folder and explore a bit, or better use search engines to look for keywords (e.g. cloud, nest).

There are no Dampening Cloud nests (only Kraken, Snowflake and Juggernaut):
https://github.com/freeorion/freeorion/ ... nster_nest

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Re: Is Space Cloud Domesticatable?

#3 Post by wobbly »

Oberlus wrote: Fri Oct 08, 2021 3:35 pm What are Cloud Spawns?

You can go to your scripting folder and explore a bit, or better use search engines to look for keywords (e.g. cloud, nest).

There are no Dampening Cloud nests (only Kraken, Snowflake and Juggernaut):
https://github.com/freeorion/freeorion/ ... nster_nest
n00b means the high cloud cover special created by the space cloud monster, and no it doesn't create domesticated space clouds.

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Re: Is Space Cloud Domesticatable?

#4 Post by n00b »

The pedia entry and the item over the planet are both called "Cloud spawns"

They seem to be a nest that spawns "space clouds".

Why are they different from other nests that spawn domesticateable monsters?

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Re: Is Space Cloud Domesticatable?

#5 Post by defaultuser »

As far as I know, the only way to get domesticated monsters is by capturing a nest and spawning new ones. There's no way to tame "wild" ones.

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Re: Is Space Cloud Domesticatable?

#6 Post by wobbly »

There's also the kraken in the ice and perhaps another kraken from ruins special. The nests that spawn domesticatable monsters specifically say so in the pedia. If it doesn't say it spawns domestics it doesn't.

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Re: Is Space Cloud Domesticatable?

#7 Post by defaultuser »

Yeah, I forgot the White Kraken. I haven't seen one from ruins,

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Re: Is Space Cloud Domesticatable?

#8 Post by n00b »

wobbly wrote: Thu Oct 14, 2021 7:27 am There's also the kraken in the ice and perhaps another kraken from ruins special. The nests that spawn domesticatable monsters specifically say so in the pedia. If it doesn't say it spawns domestics it doesn't.
"Domesticated Mega Fauna" in the pedia does not say it has limits on the nests you can use it on.

https://github.com/freeorion/freeorion/ ... les/en.txt
SHP_DOMESTIC_MONSTER_DESC

"Though huge and alien the time-tested arts of domestication can also be applied to the space monsters that travel the starlanes. Building Colonies or Outposts at monster nests will enable the raising of domesticated monsters."

I see that the nests that ARE domesticateable say they are, but until you see one that says that vs one that does not you cannot KNOW they are not domesticateable. even then you have to guess.

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Re: Is Space Cloud Domesticatable?

#9 Post by Ophiuchus »

The spawn cloud special is not a nest and I think nothing really hints it is.
If there is such a hint we should change it.
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