You can make new research files for the new race, which have different logistics values.

I'm working on having a custom ship trigger an aoe ability from itself to affect surrounding ships antimatter regeneration rates (NP there).

I want the effect to only be triggered at a gas giant or plasma storm and only to affect the tanker.

Thoughts anyone?

I want the tanker to trigger the buff when it uses it's ability (which will be a timed ability).  I just need the ability to only function while at a plasma storm or gas giant and only the tanker can turn it on.

Is it possible to have a buff only effect a particular planet type?

(Not that I know of--but I haven't modded the Rebellion side yet). 

Ideally, the tanker has an ability that can only occur near a gas giant.

If you do it as a passive, you can manage something close to what you want without misfires.

You need a periodic staging application for each scenario that checks for the existence of the corresponding buffs before triggering your effect.  You can give it a "timer" by encapsulating the system inside a longer lasting file.

Tradeoffs either way, missfires or no control over the activation.

If you're still working in diplomacy, you don't need the new triggers either way.  LastSpawnerNoLongerHasBuff is a very useful finish condition for restricting things to specific targets or conditions.

Thanks for the info all--apparently my reply got 'et.

Is there any chance in Rebellion that we can have an ability that spawns a planet module structure?

Oh duh...yeah.  Nice spot.

Did you load the game in the dev executable and did you update the entity count in the manifest?

The dev.exe has a different mod folder than normal now, you'll have to copy the mods over there.

The name of the ability would occur in the following locations:

• The entity manifest
• The name of the ability itself
• Any entity that uses that ability

Check to make sure it is in the entity manifest and that your entity manifest count is correct...check to make sure you actually have a file called "Ability_EMP_BoardingParty"...if those things are done, then make sure any references to the ability are spelled correctly...you might have named the file differently from how it is referenced in the manifest or on a the ship that uses the ability...

I assumed that you were making a new ability or something and had adopted your own naming convention for the entity file...however, particle files also adopt that naming convention (the underscore deal)...so, you may need to look for the particle file and make sure it's there and named correctly...

Also, what in general are you trying to do?  Some entity somewhere is trying to do an effect that uses that particle file....again, I'd bet either there's a typo or it's not in the proper folder or something...

Not quite sure what the first error is but the 2nd one needs to be fixed regardless...they may or may not be related, fix the 2nd one and find out...if you still have the 1st error, hopefully someone will come along that knows what it means...

Things learned while making a nightmare born of my psychosis...

RemoveBuffOfType

Only works once, if the buff it's removing stacks to ten, you need ten separate instances.
Yes, that's right.  Two files with five instant actions, even with different delays, will only remove two copies.

spawnShipsArrivalDelayTime

It lies.  Like a dog.
If you set you instant action delay time of 0 in conjunction with a 12 second arrival delay, it won't add up the same as 10 and 2.

Planets SUCK

Doing something complicated off a planet?  Don't.
They don't just require passives.  They break all kinds of strangely normal things even within a passive.
Use the planet based ability to trigger a nested function in a passive ability on one of the planetary defenders.
After you do this, you've escaped the purging fires of hell for a milder climate, like a crematorium.  If you don't, two buffs with different functions and identical application methods just might leave you confused as to why only one of them works, and only some of the time.
If something horribly complicated that should be working isn't, check applications to the planet and make them use travel.

I'm sure I ran into more problems, but I can't think of them at the moment.  My brain is fried from 90+ hours of strange problems over the last week...

It's already a 78 file buff chain.  In this case, that would be one more sustained loop in the system.

This most likely isn't possible, however, I'm wondering if it is at all possible to create an ability that grants more XP to the enemy when the ship that has this ability is destroyed?