Weird crash in 1.5 beta

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Before I go into this, I must note that SD has warned people not to use mods with 1.5, and that what I'm saying here might just be something that has been fixed internally, or won't be an issue in the final release.

To get to the meat, I ended up running 1.5 with a mod, SoGE, out of curiosity, to see that it ran. To my complete and utter surprise, it worked, and even loaded a map without issue. At least, it loaded one random map fine, the second one caused an MD, for no apparent reason. After an educated guess and use of the ingame map maker, I figured out the cause of the second MD, DLC planets. To explain, the aforementioned mod has it's own Barren planet (PlanetBarren.entity which has the same file name as 1.5's), it has for some time; I made a map which had one of these, and upon hitting preview, I got an MD.

This makes me ask the question, does the existance of the DLC "lock out" entities with the same name as the DLC planets (PlanetBarren.entity, PlanetOceanicFair.entity, etc), as this will have an adverse effect on some mods.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Most likely. The DLC will be something that will heavily affect mods (like Distant Stars) that have modified planets I am sure.
The fact that 1.5 will have these items in its coding though is interesting.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

I'm currently of the mindset that mods are just going to have to require the player to have the DLC...unfortunate for some I suppose, but it's not a whole lot different than choosing whether to embrace a $10 micro expansion like Entrenchment or Diplomacy...

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Seleuceia, reply 2

I'm currently of the mindset that mods are just going to have to require the player to have the DLC...unfortunate for some I suppose, but it's not a whole lot different than choosing whether to embrace a $10 micro expansion like Entrenchment or Diplomacy...

Even if this issue remains, we can just rename our planets to PlanetBarren2.entity and change the reference in the orbitBody section of the GalaxyScenarioDef file and bypass it entirely. I do not think it will be a big deal. If I am forced to choice I will just specify to my mod users to disable the DLC since my mod adds lots of planets anyways.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting GoaFan77, reply 3
Even if this issue remains, we can just rename our planets to PlanetBarren2.entity

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