[MOD 0.12.20+] Misanthrope 0.3.7 -- Better Biter Mechanics

[wahming]

You're determined not to let me test this from scratch, aren't you?

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[Afforess]

You're determined not to let me test this from scratch, aren't you?

Misanthrope Crash.jpg

Dang, and I swear I tested this.

I'm pretty sure I know what is wrong though. Ugh.

[wahming]

I'd be interested to know what the problem was when you fix it. It looked like your if !null check should have worked, why didn't it?

[Afforess]

I'd be interested to know what the problem was when you fix it. It looked like your if !null check should have worked, why didn't it?

If you are bored, open up libs/world.lua in Misanthrope and change this line https://github.com/Afforess/Misanthrope ... ld.lua#L17

It should be `global.mod_version = 40`.

I think that should fix it.

Long story short, the global.bases data structure is supposed to be created and initialized as part of the setup, but I set the default mod_version wrong, so it assumed the game was an existing save instead of a new save.

[wahming]

It's very much still happening.

[Afforess]

It's very much still happening.

Once I got home I was able to debug and fix it.

https://github.com/Afforess/Misanthrope ... _0.4.2.zip

[flabort]

Based entirely on the error message he is receiving, it's this line that's the problem:
https://github.com/Afforess/Misanthrope ... se.lua#L95
One of the variables that table.insert is looking for is not a table, and is expected to be a table, as "table expected, got nil" implies.

Since I can see "base" is a proper table, that means "global.bases" is not. Search your code for anywhere else "global.bases" is mentioned (also make sure you're not mixing up plural and singular), make sure it's a table; if you can't figure it out, I'd take the current line, which currently looks like this:

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local base = { queen = entity, hives = {}, worms = {}, currency = 0, name = RandomName.get_random_name(14), next_tick = game.tick + math.random(300, 1000), history = {}, valid = true}
table.insert(global.bases, base)

and replace it with something like this:

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local base = { queen = entity, hives = {}, worms = {}, currency = 0, name = RandomName.get_random_name(14), next_tick = game.tick + math.random(300, 1000), history = {}, valid = true}
if global.bases == nil then
    global.bases = {}
end
table.insert(global.bases, base)

[Afforess]

Based entirely on the error message he is receiving, it's this line that's the problem:]

The data structures were supposed to be set up on_init in the world class, which was the source of the problem: https://github.com/Afforess/Misanthrope ... ld.lua#L34

Anyway, 0.4.2 should initialize correctly.

[wahming]

Running into some performance issues with 0.4.2. Getting pretty jerky. Performance completely restored once I removed the mod.

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[Afforess]

Running into some performance issues with 0.4.2. Getting pretty jerky. Performance completely restored once I removed the mod.

Performance.jpg

Can you upload save + mods and I can look into it.

[wahming]

Here you go

[Afforess]

Running into some performance issues with 0.4.2. Getting pretty jerky. Performance completely restored once I removed the mod.

Performance.jpg

So I loaded your mod and saves up, and wandered around for ten minutes, killed a few biter bases, but I never saw script performance with 0.4.2 exceed 0.3, nowhere near 9ms. I figured maybe because I use a SSD, it was hiding the issue, so I also downloaded factorio to my standard slow hard drive and while performance was a tad worse, still nowhere near 9ms.

So was there anything in particular you were doing to trigger the issue? If you prefer, I should be around on #factorio IRC this weekend.

[wahming]

I wasn't really doing anything special. I would note though, that I had been playing for a few hours straight. Any chance of a memory leak?

[Afforess]

I wasn't really doing anything special. I would note though, that I had been playing for a few hours straight. Any chance of a memory leak?

So you didn't see the 9ms usage until after several hours? Hmmm.

I dumped the mod saved memory first thing to see if I could spot anything unusual. There were some minor issues that I caught but nothing that I think accounts for the performance you saw.

[Afforess]

I wasn't really doing anything special. I would note though, that I had been playing for a few hours straight. Any chance of a memory leak?

Ok, so I am going to work on a developer mode GUI which you should be able to toggle and flip on/off Misanthrope behaviors to hopefully allow you to debug if/when the issue with performance repeats.

[mbattjes@gmail.com]

It's back:

[mbattjes@gmail.com]

Pretty silly but the problem there was that i didn't have a base yet. As in not a single building.
Edit: scrap that it also happens with buildings present (but maybe not in range of biters?)

The evolution problem however is real. Its going to 100 within 15 mins:

[Afforess]

I replied in the mod portal, but to repeat, I'll take a look and fix.

[nuhll]

How to exclude rails?
I know theres a mod for it, but it dont work for 1.3... and i cant find another one...

[snowhusky5]

How to exclude rails?
I know theres a mod for it, but it dont work for 1.3... and i cant find another one...

seconded, it would be nice to have an option to make rails biter-proof, for those of us who want to make multiple semi-independent outposts rather than a single sprawling amoeba with nothing outside its borders except biters.