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I have the following plan:
First question is if BaseBuildMinimums respects the maxLoops setting. It seems not.

Problem is, the const builds the power at the specified location, but after it is destroyed it builds one
at a location where it would build it, had one not given a location. So this looks like a bug.

Its been a while since I worked on aip's but I think the correct statement could be either
maxTimes = or maxTries =
you would want maxTimes = 1

By looking at the AIP Editor I can say that maxTries belongs to the Attacker Type and that just means how often a
unit will be attacked. And it seems as if maxLoops does not belong to the BaseBuildMinimums Plan but to
BuildLoop and BuildMinimums. I'll check those.

BaseBuildLoop

BaseBuildLoop now that's a new one. Works, but ignores the BuildLoc. So that should be fixed too.

Yeah RD, I'd like to know how to make BaseBuildLoop use location pathpoints too.

You use it when you want 1 cons to build several buildings in succesion. For a single building I would not use it (iirc it has no use).
It may become more effective when you build 2 cons, one for building and one for fieldwork and want to prevent the AIPs using fieldcons to build say a GT in the base, which than may also stall the rest of the plans from triggering untill it has done its job.

The way I do bases it by placing paths on the map and allowing the cons to build a proper base before any is send out. If something changes while 1 cons is doing fieldwork, it likelly is still busy if a previous buildplan is triggered and so the one in the base is again used.
This wil build 3 Pgens at the specified locations, wont build a 4th, and will revert back to building at the specified locations when one of those Pgens gets knocked out. The risk of using paths however is that you probably dont want anything to be build outside any paths as than you may prevent other buildplans from executing properly (although that can again be avoided by carefully setting up -all- AIPs to build in a very specific order).

In other words, have yet to see a reason why you would want to build stuff from a loop as it at most would slow down your AIP from calling its plans.

Note the AIP editor only allows you to use the old commands, 1.3 added some more IIRC.

Though I know RD was messing with the AIP editor, or at least I think he was.

Yep aip editor = out of date.
many new aip functions have been added in 1.3
http://www.bzscrap.org/downloads/Docume ... 1_9_09b.7z

i started working on getting it to compile, but then found i needed the full, professional install to do so, so i asked OM if he could do it, but he got busy and i started working on G66.

buuuuuuut, now that we have Lua, it's almost moot (but it would be nice to have it working for 1.3)

I could look at it. I have VS pro now through Dreamspark.

go for it