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Registered: June 2011

Wanting to test my cargo dialog I made a new shop design for a small freighter by just adding an engine - but it wouldn't show in my production dialog so I couldn't make one.

Is this a known issue?

Re: Can't produce new designs?

Sat, 25 June 2011 07:24

Chief Warrant Officer 1

Stars! Nova developer

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Registered: May 2011
Location: Chile

This is an unintended bug; the starting Starbase on homeworlds is an Orbital Fort with a maximum dock space of 200kt. It should be a StarBase.

I also encountered this some weeks ago and drove me crazy trying to debug it until I noticed, lol.

Re: Can't produce new designs?

Sat, 25 June 2011 18:20

Daniel

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At the risk of stating the obvious, the work around is to build a starbase with the starbase hull.

Have fun.

Re: Can't produce new designs?

Tue, 28 June 2011 05:06

pilotpirx

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In the start code my Starbase hull is taken like this Rolling Eyes

Quote:

starbaseHull = components["Space Station"]

[Updated on: Tue, 28 June 2011 05:06]

Re: Can't produce new designs?

Wed, 06 July 2011 17:26

Master Chief Petty Officer

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Daniel wrote on Sat, 25 June 2011 18:20

At the risk of stating the obvious, the work around is to build a starbase with the starbase hull.

Tried this and no dice... Sad

I'm going in.... Work at computer

Re: Can't produce new designs?

Wed, 06 July 2011 17:30

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Be advised that designs currently are out of whack. I'm currently sorting out the Id indexing for them, as everything crashes for me (Design manager, production queue, etc).

Re: Can't produce new designs?

Wed, 06 July 2011 17:50

Master Chief Petty Officer

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You might want to do a quick update... I just fixed those... Wink

Re: Can't produce new designs?

Wed, 06 July 2011 17:52

Master Chief Petty Officer

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Registered: June 2011

pilotpirx wrote on Tue, 28 June 2011 05:06

In the start code my Starbase hull is taken like this Rolling Eyes

Quote:

starbaseHull = components["Space Station"]

Yes... but a few lines later is
starbaseHull = components["Space Dock"]

Fixing that makes the design look nicer in the design manager - but the TotalDockCapacity still comes out as 0 in the production dialog

[Updated on: Wed, 06 July 2011 17:53]

Re: Can't produce new designs?

Wed, 06 July 2011 18:03

Chief Warrant Officer 1

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That's related to the Starbase going missing bug. It's probably my fault, as it occured during the whole Reports/Ids refactoring.

Try checking the Intel.LinkIntelReferences and the ClientState.LinkClientStateReferences methods, as they assemble object linking when restoring from XML. It seems as the starbase components are not being properly loaded.

This could also be related to the designs not being indexed by Id yet, which is what i'm doing now.

Re: Can't produce new designs?

Wed, 06 July 2011 18:14

Master Chief Petty Officer

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It seems to load the fleets Ok, but turns out that the Starbase fleet attached to a star has no ships in it. Will do more digging tomorrow (or whenever I get back to this)

Re: Can't produce new designs?

Wed, 06 July 2011 18:46

Chief Warrant Officer 1

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I've been meaning to ask: Is there a way for selection lists on the gui to hold two values?

For example, to display a design list we need to display the name, but use it's Id as identifier in the code. So how to retrieve the Id when a user changes the name selected?

EDIT: Nevermind, a quick trip to MSDN answered my question Razz

[Updated on: Wed, 06 July 2011 18:48]

Re: Can't produce new designs?

Wed, 06 July 2011 21:47

Chief Warrant Officer 1

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I fixed the missing starbases issue. It was the temporary code you placed on the Reference linking on ClientState and IntelReader, it now restores them from the fleet reports by the preloaded Id on star.Starbase.

Re: Can't produce new designs?

Thu, 07 July 2011 05:55

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Aeglos wrote on Wed, 06 July 2011 21:47

Ah yes... thanks for that Smile