What do you mean by "full" buff??

There has to be a way to use DoDamage, as i looked through the files and the Unstable Gas Ability of Gas Gaints uses also DoDamage in BuffUnstableGasDeathDamage.

Also i downloaded jizz sins editor 1.02, i still worked with 1.01 without the possible values feature.

I hope this makes it easier to edit the files.

This is really nasty. but since ships travel very slow thourgh the suns grav well you can loose your half fleet.

Woops, I meant fluff, not full. Meaning it wouldn't do anything other than call a second buff, to trick the game into not having DoDamage come from the main ability.

But on that note, yeah, you're absolutely right.. the gas giant does have DoDamage in its ability chain.

Hmm, have you tried putting your original one on some random neutral instead of a star? See if it works with DoDamage then?

Ok now i understand.

No but I will do this next, also i will add the unstableGas ability to a star to see if it works. Maybe only stars have this problem.

I will keep you informed.

One Question:

is there any other tutorial for modding abilities and buffs, then  the official included in the forge tools 3?

Unless there's a user made one somewhere, nope! Trial, error, and experience/memory

Ok here my results:

I added the pulsar ability (the one i original created, not the hullrepair version) to a planet entity. It works perfect!

But the same ability on a star still crashes.

oh i forgot to say i change the pulsardamage buff (see below) the blue lines are from  buffunstablegasdeathdamage, i allways used the buffs from the forge tools 3 entrenchement. but these differ from the files in the installation dir.

TXT
entityType "Buff"
onReapplyDuplicateType "PrioritizeNewBuffs"
buffStackingLimitType "ForAllPlayers"
stackingLimit -1
buffExclusivityForAIType "ExclusiveForAllPlayers"
isInterruptable FALSE
isChannelling FALSE
numInstantActions 1
instantAction
    buffInstantActionType "DoDamage"
    instantActionTriggerType "OnDelay"
    delayTime 0.000000
    damage
        Level:0 100.000000
        Level:1 0.000000
        Level:2 0.000000
    damageAffectType "AFFECTS_SHIELDS_AND_HULL"
    damageType "ENERGY"
    isDamageShared TRUE
numPeriodicActions 0
numOverTimeActions 0
numEntityModifiers 0
numEntityBoolModifiers 0
numFinishConditions 1
finishCondition
    finishConditionType "AllOnDelayInstantActionsDone"

Well, now we know it's definitely weirdness with a star and DoDamage, since your original ability works fine. Here's what I'd recommend:

Make a small mini mod with just this ability. Make a test map for it with a star and the neutral right next door to your homeworld.

Send both of those to support@ironcladgames.com (make sure everything is behaving the way it's supposed to, star is crashing and the neutral is not with the same ability attached to them).

Explain everything you figured out so far, and what you tried. Leave the files in text also.

This way, they can easily check to see what's going on. It probably won't be high priority, but if they have time they might fix this in an upcoming patch. The easier you make it for them, the more likely it'll be that they can see what's going on quickly

Good idea,

i make this tomorrow, and thanks for help

I send the email, lets wait for the anwser from IC.

In the meanwhile I will continue with some other abilities that are for planet enties

Good luck