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NPR Team button
« on: July 28, 2014, 11:15:00 AM »
There is a button called "NPR Team" in the Teams/Academy window. I am hesitant to push it in fear of catastrophe, so what does it do? I cross my fingers for automation of teams, though I doubt this outcome.
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Re: NPR Team button
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2014, 11:21:20 AM »
I don't see this. Even in SM mode. Maybe a screenshot of where you see it? FWIW, I'm on 6.43

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Re: NPR Team button
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2014, 03:53:41 PM »
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Re: NPR Team button
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2014, 03:58:25 PM »
What's the popup say when you hover over it?

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Re: NPR Team button
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2014, 04:00:37 PM »
There is none! ???
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Re: NPR Team button
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2014, 04:03:08 PM »
What would an NPR Team even possibly do? I always thought NPRs didn't have those things, because their mommies think they are special, so they can't even count their maintenance and such.
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Re: NPR Team button
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2014, 07:48:18 PM »
What version are you using Vandermeer?

There is something a little odd here as you have an espionage team with no listed members but with an rating of 145, although I think that is because the Team Members listbox only populates when you actually select a team (it doesn't refresh when you change colony)

What happens if you select the team?  Is this team located on one of your own colonies or an NPR planet?

I cant replicate this on my 6.4.2 setting.
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Re: NPR Team button
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2014, 02:48:54 AM »
Maybe it gives your team to NPR? Go ahead and press it. We are all curious.
 

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Re: NPR Team button
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2014, 04:02:17 AM »
I am using the very newest 6.43. I now tested that I only see that button when in designer mode, which is why nobody seems to know of it. Since 6.4 I have to be in this mode constantly, because those pesky civilian shipping lines just won't stop spawning, so I have to delete their newest offspring's ships, designs, TF's and engines every 5 years or so.
There is something a little odd here as you have an espionage team with no listed members but with an rating of 145, although I think that is because the Team Members listbox only populates when you actually select a team (it doesn't refresh when you change colony)
Yes, it only shows the team members when selecting a team, so here it is:


Maybe it gives your team to NPR? Go ahead and press it. We are all curious.
Ok, so I saved for insurance, and pushed it, but I all got was a T-Shirt "Pressed the doom button and survived", and this error:


It says "error in converting the data". It is possible to press the button again, but it just results in the same. This could be though because I don't have any NPR in this game yet, so I may test that later on those.
..Maybe this is a way you can help some NPR fully exploiting their planet, or even ruins if they happened to colonize a planet with some. I think they wouldn't create teams themselves, since they possibly don't even have officers, but with this you could help them out maybe?
...Or it is just a shade of a possible future function, just how some technology is in as either relict or not working yet.

I can not report this error, since it is designer mode specific.

///edit: I looked up my version and corrected the part.
« Last Edit: July 29, 2014, 09:21:26 AM by Vandermeer »
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Re: NPR Team button
« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2014, 05:43:30 AM »
Maybe it gives your team to NPR? Go ahead and press it. We are all curious.

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Re: NPR Team button
« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2014, 09:14:49 AM »
You might want to drop Steve a note specifying the error, in case he's not encountered it yet.

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Re: NPR Team button
« Reply #11 on: July 29, 2014, 09:22:39 AM »
I will. Maybe I can fish some illumination too.
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Re: NPR Team button
« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2014, 06:31:24 AM »
I will. Maybe I can fish some illumination too.

You're probably already aware of this, but please make sure he knows you're only seeing it in designer mode.  What happened in this thread (someone reports an issue but doesn't realize it's due to designer mode/changes to data base and doesn't mention that he is using/modifying one or the other, then Steve (or in this case others) wastes time trying to figure out what is going on) is exactly the reason that he's reluctant to give out the various passwords.  Given that that's the case, we don't want to strengthen his reluctance :)

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Re: NPR Team button
« Reply #13 on: August 11, 2014, 02:16:27 PM »
This was added at some point to test the creation of NPR teams but now that function is handled automatically in the game. Pressing it works fine for me though. It's not really worth trying to find the issue because this only appears in designer mode.

I generally run in debug mode when playing Aurora. Any time I get an error, the program pauses so I can investigate. Because of that, any issues in designer mode I fix as I go along.