Admin Commands Spawning Drones and AI Enemies

[Fraser]

Hello Folks, there's a few topics floating around about this that don't seem to be getting any responses.

Does anyone have any advice on the Ai Manager command and getting it to work i,e Spawn Drones or inhibit waves of drones to launch.

And are they any players with experience on adding AI controlled CV,SV,HV onto Multiplayer games?

I have a dedicated server through GTX Online Gaming server providers, I'd really like to be able to create threats and story lines for the players.

[zaphodikus]

Bumping this thread, because there are docs on this, but they are not really 'organised' in a way that you would be able to find them in under 5 minutes..... Hopes someone with patience can add a linky.

[Fraser]

Yeah there's really not a lot out there on this which surprises me as you'd think server hosts would want to spawn some action from time to time to keep the players on their toes.

if you type "help aimanager" in the console you get some additional info, but it seems like the commands do not work.

I typed "aimanager adddronewave" and receive message saying Drone Wave spawned - but I've no waves ever spawn.

I tried "aimanager addvessel" this works but it spawns a drone base! I was hoping to spawn waves not an entirely new base.

"aimanager addtrooptransport" appears to do the same as the addvessel.

The rest of the commands do nothing

aimanager adddronewave
aimanager adddronewave NBDRONE

So the only thing I can do it seems is spawn entirely new drone bases for the players to take on.

I hope they develop some tools for the admins of servers to add / remove AI to their worlds. Even add custom blueprints that move about and fight.

[KillSmithID]

I am looking for the same info. I used to custom make starships and bases and then replace the player core with an alien core, but you can't even do that anymore. I also can't find anything else on the subject.

[Fraser]

Exactly what i'm trying to do as well! we should have commands as Admin's to spawn in new threats and keep it fresh and exciting.

I managed to create a CV in Creative mode with an Alien core, then create it on the Server, the ship just sat there but did shoot at me. Then I placed AI spawners on the inside - when my players attack the ship was empty but the spawners were still there. Bit disappointed about that.

I then followed someone's guide about putting a prefab design of a blueprint into the server directory and adding it to the YAMLof a planet that had not yet been generated so that when a player finally did go there the ship would spawn there. That didn't do anything either.

Would really like some better A.I and a means to create threats.

My players are too strong for this game and they'll become complacent if nothing can stop them (Game is far too easy and we have it on hard!) I need to rein them in a bit and show them their not the dominant force in the universe.

[ravien_ff]

Originally posted by Fraser:

Exactly what i'm trying to do as well! we should have commands as Admin's to spawn in new threats and keep it fresh and exciting.

I managed to create a CV in Creative mode with an Alien core, then create it on the Server, the ship just sat there but did shoot at me. Then I placed AI spawners on the inside - when my players attack the ship was empty but the spawners were still there. Bit disappointed about that.

I then followed someone's guide about putting a prefab design of a blueprint into the server directory and adding it to the YAMLof a planet that had not yet been generated so that when a player finally did go there the ship would spawn there. That didn't do anything either.

Would really like some better A.I and a means to create threats.

My players are too strong for this game and they'll become complacent if nothing can stop them (Game is far too easy and we have it on hard!) I need to rein them in a bit and show them their not the dominant force in the universe.

I'm just guessing here, but I don't think spawners will work on a ship. They should work just fine on a base though. I haven't played around with it at all though.

[KillSmithID]

Originally posted by Fraser:

Exactly what i'm trying to do as well! we should have commands as Admin's to spawn in new threats and keep it fresh and exciting.

I managed to create a CV in Creative mode with an Alien core, then create it on the Server, the ship just sat there but did shoot at me. Then I placed AI spawners on the inside - when my players attack the ship was empty but the spawners were still there. Bit disappointed about that.

I then followed someone's guide about putting a prefab design of a blueprint into the server directory and adding it to the YAMLof a planet that had not yet been generated so that when a player finally did go there the ship would spawn there. That didn't do anything either.

Would really like some better A.I and a means to create threats.

My players are too strong for this game and they'll become complacent if nothing can stop them (Game is far too easy and we have it on hard!) I need to rein them in a bit and show them their not the dominant force in the universe.

Did you just swap the core in creative and then spawn it in server? If so that's awesome. I had to manually destroy the core and then replace it in the server in previous versions of empyrion. Also I've found throwing in some mystery bases that have notes and lead them on a chase/mystery adventure, as well as giant blockades of those stagnant ships around planets to fight against.

[piddlefoot]

Done through the debug menu, only an Admin of the server can do it, not sure if can be done on a server.
We use it in SP for testing.

[mr_bman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3ZnZcgOpt8&ytbChannel=null

[Fraser]

Originally posted by KillSmith:

Originally posted by Fraser:

Exactly what i'm trying to do as well! we should have commands as Admin's to spawn in new threats and keep it fresh and exciting.

I managed to create a CV in Creative mode with an Alien core, then create it on the Server, the ship just sat there but did shoot at me. Then I placed AI spawners on the inside - when my players attack the ship was empty but the spawners were still there. Bit disappointed about that.

I then followed someone's guide about putting a prefab design of a blueprint into the server directory and adding it to the YAMLof a planet that had not yet been generated so that when a player finally did go there the ship would spawn there. That didn't do anything either.

Would really like some better A.I and a means to create threats.

My players are too strong for this game and they'll become complacent if nothing can stop them (Game is far too easy and we have it on hard!) I need to rein them in a bit and show them their not the dominant force in the universe.

Did you just swap the core in creative and then spawn it in server? If so that's awesome. I had to manually destroy the core and then replace it in the server in previous versions of empyrion. Also I've found throwing in some mystery bases that have notes and lead them on a chase/mystery adventure, as well as giant blockades of those stagnant ships around planets to fight against.

Yeah that's what I did and it worked but it didn't fly around patroling it just remained still until my players came to take it out. It put up a real fight and they enjoyed it alot, but it does need AI troops to spawn onboard and patrol around to really pimp up the fun. I hope they give us soime tools for this type of thing soon :)

[KillSmithID]

Originally posted by Fraser:

Originally posted by KillSmith:

Did you just swap the core in creative and then spawn it in server? If so that's awesome. I had to manually destroy the core and then replace it in the server in previous versions of empyrion. Also I've found throwing in some mystery bases that have notes and lead them on a chase/mystery adventure, as well as giant blockades of those stagnant ships around planets to fight against.

Yeah that's what I did and it worked but it didn't fly around patroling it just remained still until my players came to take it out. It put up a real fight and they enjoyed it alot, but it does need AI troops to spawn onboard and patrol around to really pimp up the fun. I hope they give us soime tools for this type of thing soon :)

So I'm doing the same thing, spawning it and then swapping out the core in survival, but it's not shooting at anything. I put ammo in the ammo box before I did the swap, and it works most other times. You know why it wouldn't work?

[Fraser]

Hi KillSmith, I've only successfully done it once which is why I posted this topic asking for assistance, it doesn't seem very user friendly and it's inconsistent.

If I was you i'd switch God mode on in survival mode and check to see if the Core is still Alien, you might already know but to locate parts of a ship open up the ships devices find the component your looking for an click highlight you can then find it real quick.

Also were the turrets on the ship alien turrets? you can't use the same one's used by player ships. It might be worth going around the ship and swapping them out.

If you are successful the downside is the ship will not move it just stays static until someone wishes to agro it.

However i've heard that there is a way to save the ship file and drop it into the "content/prefab folder in the game directory, if you do this you can then add it to a sectory yaml (the sector can't have been generated yet) easisest way would proibably be to replace the text of small alien frieghters on that Yaml with the name of your own ship. Then it will generate your ship instead of the freighter and it will actually fly around. I've not acheived this myself as all the sectors have been generated on my server and no one wants to wipe until 8.0.

Final thoughts make sure your ship has alien turrets I think this may be where you went wrong.

[Sephrajin]

That was what i was going to say.
In the end, its you editing (or add) a yaml playfield file and there you add the alien cored cv to be spawned... either directly, immobile, or via the patrolling plattform if you want it to move around.

Either way, it must be 'spawned by the yaml' in order for the spawn plates to work.

This post is best intention but all AFAIK as i'm 'not there' yet.

[KillSmithID]

Fraser, I've done all that. I guess my.hopes were just up because in previous updates I could swap turrets and cores and what not and they all worked. I have one ship and three bases that are working firing player turrets, but I've tried unsuccessfully to do the exact same thing and it seems there is an inconsistency in the game. I am with you and don't want to edit the yaml file until everyone is ready to wipe. Hopefully there will be a fix soon!

[Fraser]

That sucks sorry fella, I've not attempted it again since planets became populated for fear of screwing up.

That video in this forum that MR BMan posted I managed to get to work but i'd prefer to have some propper admin tools to spawn Ai as and when I need to.

I've posted about it on this forum and the games offical forum and i'm surprised at the lack of interest in the topic i would have thought every PVE Admin would be looking for it.

They mention AI Improvements in the road to 8.0 so fingers crossed something comes with that.

[ZDuB]

Originally posted by mr_bman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3ZnZcgOpt8&ytbChannel=null

i followed the instructions on the video, but it didnt work. The Carrier is still in Akua Orbit.
Does it only work if you start a new game? if thats the case , then for me its useless!