noblejms wrote: ↑Wed, 12. Aug 20, 10:13
1. When I select a miner and right-click on another miner, I did see the "Mine for commander" option. However after the subordinate got assigned to the commander, the subordinate's behavior just shows "Escort" only and there's no mining order queue up for the subordinate. I'm not sure why, is it because I installed the "Mod Support API" incorrectly? When I installed the "Mod Support API", I downloaded the zip file and just unzip the folder into the game's "Extension" folder, in the same folder as this mod. Did I do it correctly?
You did all correctly, it is a known issue on our side. Basically, EgoSoft patched some ambiguous code, and previously I exploited that ambiguity to make this mod work. Now I will need a new workaround (WIP) to recreate that kind of ambiguity.
noblejms wrote: ↑Wed, 12. Aug 20, 10:13
2. What happens if your commander is set to Expert Automine, but its subordinate only is a 1-star captain and supposedly can only do Sector Automine? Does the civilian fleet needs to be composed of ships commanded by captains of the same tier (like everyone in the fleet can do Expert Automine)?
Technically speaking all the three mining variants (i.e. Sector, Advanced, and Expoert) will use the same underlying script (let's call it "Generic") to mine stuff, so how I approached it was that the subordinate will always get the normally-impossible "Generic" variant (except when commander is using Expert; the subordinates will use Expert instead of "Generic" when the range settings are higher than what the "Generic" variant would allow).
But to avoid skillful commanders "uplifting" the less skillful subordinates, I've made it such that mining subordinates will perform at the efficiency level that they themselves are supposed to perform, with one exception: commanders whose skills are less than some of their subordinates will cause those subordinates to work less efficiently than when they operate alone by themselves. (Think of it as some confused subordinates sitting there listening to the strange orders from the commander.)
noblejms wrote: ↑Wed, 12. Aug 20, 10:13
3. If I assign military ships to escort the commander of a civilian fleet, do those military ships only escort the commander or will be assigned to the subordinates as well?
That is the selling point, we read the assignment value at script-level, so if you really want them to be escorts, they really become escorts. We dont mix them up. (Currently not working for miners because miners now cannot be given assignment value = mining; this is the EgoSoft ambiguity patch I was talking about.)