YitziPatch questions

[Buster's Uncle]

I am just wondering, I am playing with the Olympians.  (+1 drone for every 4 citizens).  I built the human genome project.  I am seeing 1 drone 2 citizens and 1 talent.  Yet getting drone riots. 

Is this a bug in the patch?

Thanks.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=14392172&postcount=48

psych is also calculating to -1 so im wondering hwo i would fix this.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=14392182&postcount=49

...I told him you'd probably want to see a save and might answer Sunday...

[MercantileInterest]

Olympians are a custom faction from Binary Dawn but they're only supposed to get an extra drone for every five citizens. Of course, any custom faction could be named Olympians.

Can't think of anything in Binary Dawn which would cause this sort of havoc but two people have had trouble (of a different sort) mixing it with Yitzi's patch so far.

[Buster's Uncle]

I've passed that along, thanks...

[Yitzi]

I've been away from the community for a while (it's been a tough few months), but the first thing you might want to check is whether you're playing with some of the alternate drone rules by mistake.  One of those rules causes a bonus-drone faction rule to produce "superdrones", and another one causes "superdrones" to count double, so if you're using both of those that would cause the problem.  Open up alphax.txt, and check what it lists under "drone rules code".

If that is the issue (and I'm sure it is), then you have to decide whether you want to play with the modified rules (which makes the Olympians/University/etc. somewhat harder because you can't use a lot of specialists to prevent having a lot of drones that need dealing with) or the base ones.

[Buster's Uncle]

Passed along...

[MercantileInterest]

If he is playing the Olympians from Binary Dawn, then he only needs to get the tech for Punishment Spheres and they will spring up in all of his bases. No more drone problems.  (Science will take a nasty hit though.)

[Bearu]

If he is playing the Olympians from Binary Dawn, then he only needs to get the tech for Punishment Spheres and they will spring up in all of his bases. No more drone problems.  (Science will take a nasty hit though.)

Who needs science when you have a massive torture device to keep the citizens in check? Why would anyone want liberated plebeians to occupy positions of responsibility?

[Buster's Uncle]

What kind of bugs were fixed in 3.5? This update actually solved a crash (terranx stopped working) when playing as University during 2264.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/yitzis-unofficial-smax-patch-3-5b.603565/#post-14561028

[Yitzi]

A list of bugs fixed can generally be found in the attached readme.  In particular, for 3.5:

-The "fungal pop shore spillover" phenomenon, which was intended for the game and disabled by a bug, has been reinstituted.
-The dream twister and neural amp used to cause all sorts of problems with the AI, including potential crashes; this has been stopped.
-Bonus comm frequency is no longer broken.

If the bug occurred in 3.4, it was probably that second one.  If the bug occurred in Kyrub's or Scient's or one of the official versions, then there are a lot of possibilities.

[MercantileInterest]

Does anyone know if the new variable IGNOREPREREQ counts as limited or unlimited? Thanks.

It's limited.

[Buster's Uncle]

Thanks for the reply. The Hive AI did build the Neural Amplifier shortly before the crash so that could very well be it. I'm glad I could continue the game with both Yang and a surprisingly aggressive Deirdre being at the top right now. Yang actually is going Green/Knowledge, mass producing mind worms and isle of the deeps. Deirdre is even higher on the power charts, building lots of sea bases, battleships, isle of the deeps, missiles and aircraft.

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/yitzis-unofficial-smax-patch-3-5b.603565/#post-14574431