Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations

ok nevermind, I sorted this by checking the forums history, could someone delete this, thanks.

armada2 had an error in its coding resolving the identity of pots which can build stuff by themselves, but i think that should have been fixed in the latest patch. there shouldn't be a problem with identical odfs either. One thing you could check is if your sod does really contain the 3 hardpoints for research yard1, yard2 and yard3.
You could also try to remove the baseName = "byard2" command, a odf with a changed basename is threated like the other odf, so all yards have the same odf from armadas perspective. shouldn't be a problem cause i do also use it in Fleet Operations, but we could try it :)

well I fixed all that, thanks though Optec.

My problem now is the AI wont build the yards.

yep sadly thats an issue we are still working on. the ai does automatically look for a construction ship to build a base and does not consider research stations. but messing with the AI is a quite difficult thing - but its on the todo :)

ahh I see, well it's something I can work around, and AI may be difficult but I am really enjoying the work you guys have done so far on the pp. my thanks.

How much AI modification does it look like it will take to integrate all the new Fleet Ops/PP features?

depends on the values of the maxbjildablenumber command and the techtree values
for the other stuff

the AI is something very difficult, as far as my knowledge goes DOCa is still working on understanding it :) just imagine how flexible it is..

I do wonder why they put in such requirements when all it has to do is follow a build list.

well i don't think they wanted to establish this requirement. i'm not much into the programming stuff, but i could imagine that it checks the crafts it commands for function calls, and - perhaps to save time while iterating - it does only check construction rigs. or it does look for constructstation() functions and not for researchpod() functions.. well just guessing here :) they never needed any different in original Armada2 so they did not need to implement it :)