[BUG] Most Resistance- and Defense-increasing technology does absolutely nothing - Cause Found

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Ticket: CBA-395-54776

While I was testing out my custom race, I discovered that the resistance tech wasn't increasing resistance. Then I discovered that almost none of the resistance techs worked. The reason for this turned out to be the fact that most Resistance techs do this:

<Stats>
<EffectType>ResistanceBonus</EffectType>
<Target>
<TargetType>Faction</TargetType>
</Target>
<BonusType>Flat</BonusType>
<Value>0.2</Value>
</Stats>

However, unlike Soldiering, ResistanceBonus and PlanetaryDefense are not Faction stats, they are Colony stats, so it started working once I changed it to this:

<Stats>
<EffectType>ResistanceBonus</EffectType>
<Scope>Global</Scope>
<Target>
<TargetType>Colony</TargetType>
</Target>
<BonusType>Flat</BonusType>
<Value>0.2</Value>
</Stats>

Interestingly, there actually WAS one Resistance-boosting tech in the default tech tree that had this set correctly, but all the others incorrectly set their scope to Faction.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I thought I saw this happening! Just my empire was too big to pin it down easily. Good catch!

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Update: This also happens with Planetary Defense.

Quoting Christian_Akacro, reply 1

I thought I saw this happening! Just my empire was too big to pin it down easily. Good catch!

The AI loves to go for planetary resistance technology, too, so it should help them actually defend now.

EDIT: Ticket submitted. CBA-395-54776

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

This is still present in the 1.03 opt-in.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Sansloi37, reply 3

This is still present in the 1.03 opt-in.

Still present, and I know why. It was changed to this:

<Stats>
<EffectType>ResistanceBonus</EffectType>
<Target>
<TargetType>Colony</TargetType>
</Target>
<BonusType>Flat</BonusType>
<Value>0.1</Value>
</Stats>

It needs to be this:

<Stats>
<EffectType>ResistanceBonus</EffectType>
<Scope>Global</Scope>
<Target>
<TargetType>Colony</TargetType>
</Target>
<BonusType>Flat</BonusType>
<Value>0.1</Value>
</Stats>

EDIT: Submitted ticket #WCS-875-33946

Planetary Defense technologies were not touched, and they also need this exact fix.

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Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Suddenly, I got a notification in Notepad++ that TechDefs was changed, so I reloaded it... fixed! Works now. Both defense and resistance techs.

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

No it is not, at least not for all of them.

  • Altarian: Staller Marines gives a multiplier for PlanetaryDefense. PlanetaryDefense is already an multiplier in it self;
  • Drengin: fixed;
  • Iconians: fixed;
  • Iridium: fixed;
  • Krynn: JihadFocus2 has the same fault as the Altarian Staller Marines;
  • Terrans: fixed;
  • Thalan: fixed;
  • Yor fixed;
  • Generic Techdefs.xml: fixed.

So they almost got them all. :moo:

 

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Well this might explain why it is so easy to run through all the enemy colonies... Nice find!