00_defines no longer supports individual overwrites

[Lavo]

With the release of the Utopia expansion and the Banks update, 00_defines was changed to being a txt file from a lua file, which has had the unfortunate side effect of preventing individual lines in the 00_defines file from being overwritten via another file placed in the defines folder. This practice has been supported by Paradox, and in fact modders have been told to do so as the 00_defines previously had in a header: "for modding, avoid overwriting this file - instead overwrite individual -- keys".

Losing this ability has hurt many mods across the spectrum and additionally has drastically increased the amount of mod conflicts to the point of possibly breaking several mods altogether. Will this be fixed some time in the near future?

 

[Crusader Vanguard]

I agree with this completely. This is a huge blow to the modding community. Paradox, please address this in the 1.5.1 hotfix. Many, many mods depend on this to be individually overwritten to function together and do what they are meant to.

 

[CaptainX3]

Yeah, this one change will completely wreck the modding community I'm terms of what will work together. It's urgent that this is addressed ASAP.

 

[Grimhat]

Indeed. I got 38 tiny customization mods relying on this feature...

 

[Andon]

I've been attempting numerous solutions to get things to work, but so far it's been a no go. Reverting this would be the best option, but if not, at least let us know how we're supposed to make mods compatible.

 

[Frostwood]

Pretty much broke my mod....

 

[Mibri1988]

Is the QA Aware of this issue?

Cause it's heavily limiting the modability of the newest game Version.

 

[Issen.]

This is indeed quite problematic for cross-mod compatibility. I hope we can get clarification or a potential way to fix this soon, otherwise this is going to be a big hit to the modding community.

 

[Kayden_II]

I've tried Note-Pad++, OpenOffice, Win-7-Word-Pad and even the Win-7-Editor ...
Nothing works in Regards of Overwriting individual/some Stuff in this File by Making a separate One ...

I hope, that This wasn't made on Purpose ?! ...

BUMP.

 

[Gruntsatwork]

Hi everyone, this is a known issue and we're on it right now. Definitely not working as intended right now.

Thanks @Mibri1988 for making me aware of the thread, hope I could stop some of your fears.

 

[MrSoulbinder]

Thanks for the clarification!

 

[Lavo]

Poked some other modders, I can confirm that the fix does work, the new format is akin to the following:

NShip = {
WARP_WINDDOWN_OUTSIDE_BORDER = 0.0
HYPERLANE_WINDUP_OUTSIDE_BORDER = 0.0
}

 

[Ramiil]

hmm, T

Poked some other modders, I can confirm that the fix does work, the new format is akin to the following:

NShip = {
WARP_WINDDOWN_OUTSIDE_BORDER = 0.0
HYPERLANE_WINDUP_OUTSIDE_BORDER = 0.0
}

UPD: It works in 1.5.1 beta