[Potential Bug]: Error while parsing expression & supply mules not working with AI stations
altmank opened this issue · 13 comments
Seeing this in my debug logs for the 6.3.3 build. I'm also having some issues with supply mules not finding trades:
[=ERROR=] 256318.07 extensions\mules_and_warehouses_extended\aiscripts\station_mule.xml(422): Error while parsing expression: Operator expected
- Input: $targetIsResource and (not $targetIsProduct))
- Pos: ^
[General] 256318.07 ======================================
[General] 256318.07 ======================================
[=ERROR=] 256318.07 extensions\mules_and_warehouses_extended\aiscripts\station_mule.xml(423): Error while parsing expression: Operator expected - Input: $(not targetIsResource) and ($targetIsProduct))
- Pos: ^
[General] 256318.07 ======================================
[General] 256318.07 ======================================
[=ERROR=] 256318.07 extensions\mules_and_warehouses_extended\aiscripts\station_mule.xml(425): Error while parsing expression: Operator expected - Input: $targetIsWare and (not $targetIsResource) and (not $targetIsProduct))
- Pos:
the error is due to a missing parentheses but the variables are for debug only, they aren't used in the logic.
You're going to have to be way more specific on the supply mules
Okay, I thought that might be my root cause. I'm reverting to 6.3.2 to see if my issue persists. I didn't see good logging when I was running debug for 6.3.3 related to supply mules. Not sure why not.
In my current game, 6.3.3 version of mules. I can assign a supply mule to my PHQ, serve source only and allowed to check AI wares. It fails to find any trades to buy any of the research wares. If I set the same trader to just "Trade for" the PHQ, it finds wares to goes out to buy.
Hmmm, no change in 6.2.2.
Here are my settings for supply mule:
https://i.imgur.com/vVcDMXb.png
https://i.imgur.com/nT3f9lq.png
Here is the same trader then set to trade for the station and finding the wares to buy:
https://i.imgur.com/IK1QBSm.png
The problem here is with the fact that I had hardcoded the supply mule to require at least 75% full cargo. In the next release there's a slider that let's you drop that down as low as 25%. I wasn't comfortable taking it much lower because I didn't want people complaining about supply mule moving 10 wares.
I had a lot of trouble getting the PHQ research requirements filled as well. What I ended up doing was using 2 small traders, one autotrader, and one supply mule. With the next update, set the supply mule to 25% cargo requirement and you should be able to fill everything, if the auto trader doesn't cover it for you.
Unfortunately I don't know of a way to check that a trade is "special" for fulfilling research, or I would just ignore the cargo requirement for research trades. I already do that for build storage.
Ahhhh, I was seeing this all of a sudden in other scenarios and I think it relates to installing a mod that 5X cargo size for traders. I'm guessing they can't get enough cargo from the AI.
ah, yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I think @Misunderstood-Wookiee is putting out the patch soon here, that'll let you use the slider.
Awesome. Is this the only line I need to tweak at the moment if I want to manually adjust it?
<set_value name="$minCargoSize" exact="0.75*($ShipCapacity)f / $maxTrades" />
yep
Thank you!
Alright, I learned the bare minimum to mod in a percent slider by following the playerbuymod code as an example. Set to 1 percent and my little guy is off to buy me some wares with his super big cargo hold.
Awesome! Appreciate your time and the mod.