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ORIGINAL: arvcran
So DOWNLOAD … copy over existing … done? (to install)

Yes. There are only 2 help files that are different so you could also just replace those 2 files if you have tweaked any of the base files.

I'm having problems with the Caleph racial fighter bays making fighters. I looked at the research files but I don't see the issue. Then again I haven't modded or played in a long time.

If anyone can confirm or not that would be great. If not no problem.

Edit: I can't get another race to build normal fighters either. Could be my install is borked.

Edit2: Reinstall worked.

Found an oversight in RetreatUE.

The Enton race has the special component "Disbelieve Mask" which is stealth. The Enton design templates have steathcloak set to 0. That means the AI will never add it to Enton designs.

To fix Just change the value from 0 to 1.

This only applies if you care lol. If you design your own ships it won't matter, but the AI won't play Enton to their potential.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/m241l6noslhdg ... s.zip?dl=0

Here are the ship templates I use for this mod. They have been changed as follows:

All exploration ships have one of each lab. This allows them to research as science ships.
Each mining station and gas minig station has +4 fighter bays. Most had zero to begin with but some had one.

Use if you want. Ignore otherwise. If you do use them back up your originals first.

Somehow installing Bacon + Retreat is totally fine, but Das Chrome breaks the game (very low fps, starting at 10k troop maint. , low Income)

Anyone experienced this or knows the reason?

Das Chrome is a reskin (replaces icons, pictures). I doesn't affect the game. Can you give more detail?

I have this strange problem where once I encounter my first pirate, they would either offer protection and then immediately cancel it, attacking my starport and circling continuously over the planet, or just keeping circling over the planet without doing anything.

Did anyone else encounter this problem?

If they offer then cancel go to diplomacy and reaccept.

Is them continually spinning above my planet a well-known bug?

Not sure why it's a bug. In some game starts after the initial attack, I accept the protection and they just hang out at my planet. Since I'm under protection I can ignore them until I'm ready to cancel.

Or just use the editor and erase them.

Weird. The game ran perfectly fine yesterday, but I'm getting error messages now.

Does this mod include the AI Improvement Mod by Ice?

RetreatUE has it's own AI improvement like Icemania's. Just different.

Ah! Thanks!

RetreatUE fix thread updated.

Stupid question time! I am trying to set up a passenger ship to transfer population. I get an unhandled exception when i press ctrl-w. Am i supposed to set something up in passengers.txt? have I done something wrong elsewhere?,is it a bug? where is this passenger.txt file if i do have to manually edit it outside the game? I can't find it.

Anything that points me in the right direction will be great,Thanks

ORIGINAL: k1ngsk1n

Stupid question time! I am trying to set up a passenger ship to transfer population. I get an unhandled exception when i press ctrl-w. Am i supposed to set something up in passengers.txt? have I done something wrong elsewhere?,is it a bug? where is this passenger.txt file if i do have to manually edit it outside the game? I can't find it.

Anything that points me in the right direction will be great,Thanks

Yeah, passenger ship missions was one of my early mod effors and works a little differently than the other stuff. It is an external file, in the same directory as the exe. In it you place the names of the source and destination planets. I suggest you copy and paste them directly from the game and then save the file. You don't need to close the file, just save it. Then press ctrl-W in the game. If I had to do it over I would do it like the fighter targets. Its so cumbersome that I rarely even use it anymore.

Another question,I can't seem to get a colony ship to build asteroid colonys.In the baconsettings.txt they are on and I see the shortcut and instructions. I have tried to colonise some that are well within my colonisation range but I do not get the command in the menu. The only command I see is hold position when I open it. What am I not seeing that is stopping me?

ORIGINAL: k1ngsk1n

Another question,I can't seem to get a colony ship to build asteroid colonys.In the baconsettings.txt they are on and I see the shortcut and instructions. I have tried to colonise some that are well within my colonisation range but I do not get the command in the menu. The only command I see is hold position when I open it. What am I not seeing that is stopping me?

The range is very short... about 300 or so if I recall correctly. Make sure you have the ship selected and are hovering over the asteroid and then alt-ctrl-right click. Be sure to hold down the alt first, which you are probably doing since you see the hold position option at least.

Hey, I've been running this setup with no problems until my pc forced an update a couple of days ago. Today I tried to open up the game for the first time since and it doesn't work. I replaced the Bacon exe with the original and that one seems to work fine, even though it takes long to load up. When I try the Bacon exe, I get to the first bacon mod by Roger Bacon message and then nothing. According to steam, the program is running in the background but it doesn't show up anywhere, including task manager. I have Windows 10, if that helps. I suspect that the latest update broke my game somehow, or has some incompatibility but I am out of my depth as to how it can be fixed. Any ideas? otherwise I think I will delete everything and redownload from scratch. I'll post again if that works.

EDIT: I found the program running under background processes of the extended task manager. Still, it doesn't fully load up. Like I said, it shows the first Bacon Mod popup, then nothing else.