Request for the Designer Mode Password

[CaptainBipto (OP)]

Hey guys! Sorry to bug you Steve I am not sure if my PM i sent to you about half an hour ago actually went thru due to my dodgy internet connection.  I have run into the perpetual 5 second interval and if possible pls PM me the Designer password so I can get my game back on track! My apologies if you did get my PM but my outbox didn't show anything.  Thanks again for the game!!!!

[83athom]

There is none, just hit OK.

[CaptainBipto (OP)]

Hmm I tried that and it said no valid password.   Is that normal? Thanks btw!

[Witty]

Yeah I'm not entirely sure what Athom is talking about. There definitely is a password.

I don't know it personally, and I don't think anyone besides Steve is able to distribute it without getting into trouble. Steve himself hasn't been in these forums for over a month however, so you may have to wait a bit to get it.

[CaptainBipto (OP)]

He gave it to me a looooong time ago but that PM disappeared:(

[83athom]

I am sure there isn't one, I just tried going into SM and when it asked for a password, I just clicked OK and it accepted it.

[MarcAFK]

I am sure there isn't one, I just tried going into SM and when it asked for a password, I just clicked OK and it accepted it.

That's spacemaster mode, there's no password for that unless you set one at the start of the game.
Designer mode lets you alter the database, which can cause undesirable bugs. Steve won't give you any help for problems you encounter if you gave altered the database, he avoids giving to password out to prevent erroneous bug reports.

[letsdance]

i asked him for the pw a few months ago. i guess he doesn't read PMs here, because i got no reply at all. i didn't try email. i'd like to mod the game =)

[CaptainBipto (OP)]

I sent him an email just now:p

I'm sticking with this game.  Maybe next time if I can't get the pword. . . I'll stock my game with SM races.

[sloanjh]

That's spacemaster mode, there's no password for that unless you set one at the start of the game.
Designer mode lets you alter the database, which can cause undesirable bugs. Steve won't give you any help for problems you encounter if you gave altered the database, he avoids giving to password out to prevent erroneous bug reports.

A little more detail: Designer mode allows you to "see" (and give orders to) computer-controlled NPR empires in the GUI as if they were player-controlled NPRs.  Since the AI makes assumptions about what the empires it controls are doing, if you change the state of the computer-controlled empire (i.e. give orders or (possibly) delete things) it can break the AI, generating the erroneous bug reports that Steve wants to prevent.

John

[CaptainBipto (OP)]

In SM I managed to find the fight dragging out my game.  A NPR encountered some ships called Pirate Alpha, Charlie and Bravo.   The NPR ships would see pirate alpha on active but not do anything

[MarcAFK]

I thought I already posted this, but in the logs you can see information about NPRs that isn't viewable in SM mode.

[83athom]

i asked him for the pw a few months ago. i guess he doesn't read PMs here, because i got no reply at all. i didn't try email. i'd like to mod the game =)

What kind of mod are you going to do?

[letsdance]

What kind of mod are you going to do?

since it don't have the pw, none it seems =)

if i had the pw it depends on what's all in the database. i'd like to mod engines as in my suggestions thread, and remove the 10x size factor for commercial designs (by reducing the size of such components), and remove commercial shipyards. probably also the cost of some techs. but it all depends on what's possible and i don't know that.

[boggo2300]

You do realise the Database and Developer passwords are different?

or aren't they anymore?

Matt