100 Unit Bug - Revision history

ATHSE at 06:28, 1 April 2025

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	Note the allied stuff is first, next soviet and yuri, then there's a gap between 41 and 101 before civilian units are listed. The numbers don't really matter, only the order of the list does. Now I see that I have 41 buildable units, and can still make 60 extra ones without screwing up. If rules(md).ini has more than 100 units and new units are added in a map, the new units from map are appended to the rules list, in such cases this method fails to avoid the bug.		Note the allied stuff is first, next soviet and yuri, then there's a gap between 41 and 101 before civilian units are listed. The numbers don't really matter, only the order of the list does. Now I see that I have 41 buildable units, and can still make 60 extra ones without screwing up. If rules(md).ini has more than 100 units and new units are added in a map, the new units from map are appended to the rules list, in such cases this method fails to avoid the bug.

	=== Note about the list enumeration ===		== Note about the list enumeration ==

	Note, the numbers on the left can really be ''anything''. The engine doesn't pay any attention to it, it discards everything to the left of the = sign, and uses its own enumeration, starting at 1 (or possibly zero, but the numeration doesn't make the slightest difference in this case). You can even use stuff like		Note, the numbers on the left can really be ''anything''. The engine doesn't pay any attention to it, it discards everything to the left of the = sign, and uses its own enumeration, starting at 1 (or possibly zero, but the numeration doesn't make the slightest difference in this case). You can even use stuff like

ATHSE at 06:27, 1 April 2025

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		[[TS]], [[FS]], [[RA2]] and [[YR]] are coded in a way that limits the number of total buildable [[VehicleTypes]], [[InfantryTypes]], and [[AircraftTypes]] as well, to 100 units each. If you have a buildable object on a place after 100, the AI will think that is the only unit buildable and create it over and over. It will continue building until there is no money left or you stop it. This bug is fixed in [[RockPatch:Main\|RockPatch]] and Ares for {{yr}}. For {{ts}}, [https://github.com/CnCNet/ts-patches TS-Patches] fixes it which is used in [https://www.moddb.com/mods/tiberian-sun-client TS Client]. For another solution that partly avoids the bug see below for details.

		== Avoiding the 100 unit bug (by DCoder) ==

		Look at your [InfantryTypes] and [VehicleTypes]. How many entries do they have? If there's more than 101 buildable units (those without TechLevel=-1) and they're not all in the first 101 lines of the list, the AI will go nuts - it'll build the last unit in the list non-stop, and won't attack. To avoid it, you'll need to rearrange these lists, put buildable units first and the civilian and dummy units in the very end. I personally sorted it like this:
		[VehicleTypes]
		1=AEGIS
		2=AMCV
		3=BFRT
		4=CARRIER
		5=CMIN
		6=DEST
		7=DLPH
		8=FV
		9=LCRF
		10=MGTK
		11=MTNK
		12=ROBO
		13=SHAD
		14=SREF
		15=TNKD

		16=APOC
		17=DISK
		18=DRED
		19=DRON
		20=DTRUCK
		21=HARV
		22=HYD
		23=HTK
		24=HTNK
		25=SAPC
		26=SCHP
		27=SMCV
		28=SQD
		29=SUB
		30=TTNK
		31=V3
		32=ZEP

		33=BSUB
		34=CAOS
		35=YHVR
		36=YTNK
		37=LTNK
		38=MIND
		39=PCV
		40=SMIN
		41=TELE

		'';notice the gap here''
		102=AMBU
		103=BCAB
		104=BUS
		105=CAR
		106=CBLC
		107=CDEST
		108=CIVP
		109=CMON
		110=CONA
		111=COP
		112=CRUISE
		113=DDBX
		114=DeathDummy
		115=DOLY
		116=EUROC
		117=FTRK
		118=HORV
		119=HOWI
		120=YCAB
		121=YDUM
		122=JEEP
		123=LIMO
		124=PICK
		125=PROPA
		126=PTRUCK
		127=SCHD
		128=STANG
		129=SUVB
		130=SUVW
		131=TAXI
		132=TRUCKA
		133=TRUCKB
		134=TUG
		135=UTNK
		136=VLAD
		137=WINI
		138=XCOMET
		Note the allied stuff is first, next soviet and yuri, then there's a gap between 41 and 101 before civilian units are listed. The numbers don't really matter, only the order of the list does. Now I see that I have 41 buildable units, and can still make 60 extra ones without screwing up. If rules(md).ini has more than 100 units and new units are added in a map, the new units from map are appended to the rules list, in such cases this method fails to avoid the bug.

		=== Note about the list enumeration ===

		Note, the numbers on the left can really be ''anything''. The engine doesn't pay any attention to it, it discards everything to the left of the = sign, and uses its own enumeration, starting at 1 (or possibly zero, but the numeration doesn't make the slightest difference in this case). You can even use stuff like
		ALLIEDMCV=AMCV
		H4RV3S73R=HARV
		7^3-4^2=CMIN
		and similar if you want, it makes no difference. But, obviously, using a proper 1-based ordinal enumeration gives you ideas of how many "slots" you stil have available for buildable units.

		== 100 Unit Bug and Online Play: The 100 Units Bug causes Reconnection Errors! (DoctorEvil) ==
		After playtesting an early prototype of a heavily modded survival map of mine (''DoctorEvil's Second Pacific Survival'' to be exact) I have noticed that having a map with the 100 unit bug causes reconnection errors to occur after a while (during an online match via cncnet). I'm not sure on what exactly causes the recon error, but fixing the 100 unit bug also prevents random errors from happening.

		The way I fixed the 100 unit bug on my second pacific survival is by overwriting the existing civilian units instead of creating entirely new units.
		For example:
		[STEALTHFIGHTER]
		ROT=3
		Ammo=2
		Cost=1200
		Dock=GAAIRC,AMRADR
		Name=Stealth Fighter
		Armor=light
		Image=BEAG
		Primary=Maverick2
		(...)

		Overwrite existing units like this:
		[COP]
		ROT=3
		Ammo=2
		Cost=1200
		Dock=GAAIRC,AMRADR
		Name=Stealth Fighter
		Armor=light
		Image=BEAG
		Primary=Maverick2
		(...)

		Just make sure to check the INI flags for each civilian unit. All of them have TechLevel=11 or -1, ThreatPosed=0, AmbientSound=xxx, and so on. Keep in mind that fixing it this way also causes some cameos to not show the thing you declared in Image=xxx, due to the engine reading certain units from Art.ini instead.

		[[Category:Bugs_and_Errors]]

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