Future Tech/Civic is unselectable

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Issue by chaorace
Saturday Jun 03, 2017 at 04:12 GMT
Originally opened as CQUI-Org/cqui#548

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This is a secondhand report from the Steam comments, but I've seen it a few times now and I think it's an edge case worth investigating since we do have some heuristics which specifically don't account for repeating techs

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Comment by ricanuck
Sunday Jun 04, 2017 at 03:27 GMT

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Yes, I have seen it, quick workaround was to select Futures from the World Tracker instead, which is in fact easier than going to the Tree to select them.

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Comment by JHCD
Sunday Jun 04, 2017 at 11:28 GMT

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Never seen that problem and I always open the Tree...
Occours that problem only for the repeatable entries?

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Comment by chaorace
Sunday Jun 04, 2017 at 17:38 GMT

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@JHCD Yes, I believe it's only for repeat entries

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Comment by ricanuck
Tuesday Jun 06, 2017 at 17:40 GMT

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Yes, IIRC, it triggers after the first Future was selected, and you try to select the second.

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Comment by SpaceOgre
Saturday Jul 08, 2017 at 11:13 GMT

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The problem is here:

function SetCurrentNode( hash )
  if hash ~= nil then
    local localPlayerCulture = Players[Game.GetLocalPlayer()]:GetCulture();
    -- Get the complete path to the tech
    local pathToCivic = localPlayerCulture:GetCivicPath( hash );
    local tParameters = {};
    tParameters[PlayerOperations.PARAM_CIVIC_TYPE]  = pathToCivic;
    if m_shiftDown then
      tParameters[PlayerOperations.PARAM_INSERT_MODE] = PlayerOperations.VALUE_APPEND;
    else
      tParameters[PlayerOperations.PARAM_INSERT_MODE] = PlayerOperations.VALUE_EXCLUSIVE;
    end
    UI.RequestPlayerOperation(Game.GetLocalPlayer(), PlayerOperations.PROGRESS_CIVIC, tParameters);
        UI.PlaySound("Confirm_Civic_CivicsTree");
  else
    UI.DataError("Attempt to change current tree item with NIL hash!");
  end

end

It seems like localPlayerCulture:GetCivicPath does not work so well when the tech is researched. I think this is a problem in vanilla to since I can't find anything different from our code that interferes with this. I tried to replace the pathToCivic with the hash instead and that works.

I think we might need to a special SetCurrentNode for the future civic and tech that checks if is done and then just adds the hash instead of the pathToCivic.

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Comment by ehmonny
Tuesday Aug 01, 2017 at 04:03 GMT

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@SpaceOgre

Hey man, just wondering if there are any resolutions to this issue yet. I just downloaded the CQUI mod and I've run into the issue listed above. I'm not able to select tech/civic and I can't set any policies either.

I'm really not familiar with programming so I'm not sure if that was a solution that you posted above.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Comment by SpaceOgre
Tuesday Aug 01, 2017 at 08:24 GMT

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@ehmonny Sorry nothing yet and will have to wait until the Summer Patch fixes are done.

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Comment by ehmonny
Tuesday Aug 01, 2017 at 20:49 GMT

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Thanks very much for the quick reply