Mysterious non-player side buildings [Solved]

Ich-Henker · Flamethrower **Joined**: 06 Aug 2015 **Location**: Germany

I wanted to create defensive structure clones to use the new initialpayload logic from ares but a strange bug occurs: the AI builds the bunkers but they belong to no side, so they attack the the Ai that build them and the AI itself attacks them back - until they completely kill each other.

1. Solution one was to set the techlevel from -1 to a positive value like 1 but i do not want the human players to have them as a buildable option techlevel=11 does not work.
Other building clones work fine but with every defenive structure so far it did not work. I even uncloned them so all of them have their own shp and art.ini entry did not help it.
I delist it from the defense structure list to prevent multiples of it.

Here is the code -anyone familiar with this problem?

;French Bunker clone
[GABUNK2]
UIName=NOSTR:Allied Battle Bunker
Name=Allied Battle Bunker
Adjacent=4
AIBasePlanningSide=0 ;gs 0 for Good, 1 for Evil
Armor=concrete
BaseNormal=no
BuildCat=Combat
Prerequisite=GACNST
Capturable=false
ClickRepairable=yes
Cost=500
Crewed=no
DebrisAnim=Dbris3sm,Dbris4lg,Dbris4sm,Dbris6sm,Dbris7lg,Dbris7sm,Dbris8sm,Dbris10lg,Dbris10sm
Explosion=TWLT070,S_BANG48,S_BRNL58,S_CLSN58,S_TUMU60
MaxDebris=15
MinDebris=5
Owner=French,Russians,Confederation,Africans,Arabs,YuriCountry,YuriCountry_SouthPole
RequiredHouses=French
ForbiddenHouses=British,Germans,Americans,Alliance
Powered=no
Sight=7
Strength=600
TechLevel=-1

Okay= used alternate Prerequisites - thanks!
CanBeOccupied=yes
MaxNumberOccupants=5
CanOccupyFire=yes
;IsBaseDefense=yes
AntiInfantryValue=25
AntiArmorValue=5
AntiAirValue=0
AIBuildThis=yes

RehteA · Soldier **Joined**: 16 Oct 2013

Occupyiedable + TechLevel=-1 = neutral building when empty.

With initialpayload, I guess the building was created first and become neutral and then this neutral building created some neutral infantries inside thus they are all neutral.

Have you tried TechLevel=0?

ApolloTD · Commander **Joined**: 19 Nov 2003

It is just that you are NOT supposed to do TechLevel=-1 bunkers (CanBeOccupied=yes)
that are 'buildable' for even the AI.

As that is the ONLY thing that separates normal garrisonable civilian buildings on the maps from normal buildable soviet like battle bunkers.

Nothing to do with ARES, you just stumble into initial design decision.

TechLevel=11 won't work as that also has the ability to tell AI, do not make!

Your only good choice is to give it prerequisite that player CAN'T have.

Graion Dilach · Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2015 10:46 am Post subject:

Keep in mind that the AI follows building prereqs, so this additional prereq building must be buildable by the AI!

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Ich-Henker · Flamethrower **Joined**: 06 Aug 2015 **Location**: Germany

Thank you for your kind help!