air units and free market

[trala]

i installed gog smacx, then official patch 2.0 and Yitzis patch.

my question is: does this bug still exists? havin free market + air unit = drones. even if its in the base? or did i installed it wrong?

other question: does yitzis patch improve the ai? or do i need to install the better ai patch?

thanks!

[Buster's Uncle]

kyrub?  What does the stuff of yours Yitzi incorporated do?  I'm not entirely clear on that point myself.

[Nexii]

It's not a bug, but you can modify pacifism drone settings in alphax.txt by these strings:

5,       ; Pacifism rules code for units in owner's territory or in bases {0 to 15}
5,       ; Pacifism rules code for units in pact brother's territory {0 to 15}
11,      ; Pacifism rules code for units in unowned territory or with truce/treaty but no pact {0 to 15}
11,      ; Pacifism rules code for units in enemy territory {0 to 15}

Flags are explained at #15 here
http://alphacentauri2.info/wiki/New_alphax_variables_in_Yitzi's_patch

[trala]

mhhh, i see, its because its a unit  with *offensive* air combat capability.

kinda strange, that free market does that. seeing the us invading and toppling governments all over the place in the past:)

but what about my second question

[Buster's Uncle]

Something of kyrub's is incorporated; all his work is on improving AI, but mostly vanilla SMAC only - I'm not very familiar with his SMAX patch, which is why I asked him to comment.  Yitzi will know anyway, if kyrub doesn't speak up...

[Yitzi]

i installed gog smacx, then official patch 2.0 and Yitzis patch.

my question is: does this bug still exists? havin free market + air unit = drones. even if its in the base? or did i installed it wrong?

Air units producing drones under Free Market even when in your territory or a base is not a bug, but my patch does allow you to change it: Open up alphax.txt, and on the line that says "Pacifism rules code for units in owner's territory or in bases {0 to 15}", change the 5 to a 0.  Just make sure to change it back for multiplayer games unless everyone agrees to the change.

other question: does yitzis patch improve the ai? or do i need to install the better ai patch?

thanks!

My patch improves the AI to the same extent as Kyrub's SMAX patch, but his more extensive SMAC patch is not included.