Spring RTS Engine

for a solid cross-AI evaluation of new strategies i need to force a cap on which units can be built, and which cannot. for instance, only being able to build the KBot-lab units would suffice (without an additional Construction KBot to disrupt things, of course)

i wonder if this is even possible on the level of an Engine tweak, since many AI's already have their buildtrees compiled into the .dll's (NTAI being a nice exception).
on the other hand, tweaking the XTA mod to only offer a few construction options seems infeasible as well :)

any leads are more than appreciated!

tweaking the XTA mod to only offer a few construction options seems infeasible as well

Welcome to Spring modding. It's not infeasible- about 5 minutes with Notepad will see you through. Just delete all of the sections out've Gamedata/Sidedata.tdf that are for buildtrees you don't want availble, and voila

Just limit units when you host the game (theres a tab for it), then save the settings so you only have to do it once...

i thought some of the Ais didn't play nice when unit restrictions are applied (through the lobby client)

Suppose it would mess up learning tables for AAI, but no reason why NTAI wouldnt work...

at krogothe: thanks a bunch, as i was setting up the AI matches via the SpringSP interface i always missed that. the options presented look lovely :)

at argh: kind to welcome me :) no Sidedata.tdf file here. i tracked it down as being a unit description format originating from previous TA games. wonder if it is still used in new TA Spring versions? (and if yes, i wonder with what it ships of course). argh argh :)