Aha! Fixed the bug. Tee-hee-hee.

Should only be fixed in new games.

Thank you again for your work! Now that you mention it, we did save 2 turns later and indeed the outpost thief buildings were there when we loaded that save, not before.

Glad you were able to find a workaround. Keep up the good work!

Patched! Not perfect, but better.

Previously Gladius was ignoring the removeUnit effect upon save/load. Gladius doesn't respect the outcome and places the unit back on the board! W/o loading the save game, the unit is sort-of half-there... no icon nor unit-blocking occurs, but it does put the Thieves in the turn order if they are in melee with enemy.

I have added a Summon trait duration = 1 to the effect. The Summon trait will activate 1-round later and _actually_ remove the unit. So, as long as you don't Save/Load on the same turn the Outpost Thief was summoned, its unlikely you'll ever notice them. If you do, you'll see them -- and they'll block terrain -- but only until your next turn.

I've put a question into the mod community to see if anyone can fix this behaviour neatly. But the patch is pretty good.

Celtik- Not at all, thank you! I have been able to replicate the issue. The fort unit seems to sometimes appear in some hexes, turns later! I have no idea why. But, this means I can start to debug it.

Thank you for looking into it. I am playing as the Sisters and my friend is Space Marines, the AI is Astra Militarum, we're all on the same team. We are playing hotseat by the way, not online. My friend moved the tactical unit you can see on the screenshot on the oupost claimed by the AI and used the outpost thief action to get it. it worked great and there was no issue. The outpost thief "buildings" were not there. They appeared 2 turns later, that is why the tactical unit is not on the outpost anymore.

I am using your other mod Nameless in addition to this one, as well as a more color mod and a private one I made to change the map sizes (I just edited worldparameters.xml). I don't think they conflict.

Disbanding the units worked, I'm dumb I haven't thought of that, thanks!

Celtik- The fortification unit, "OutpostThief", immediately destroys itself in my testing before publish and now. Essentially this unit has a passive action whose sole effect is to removeUnit. Somehow, this passive has failed to do its work.

You've run into a case that I haven't seen to date, something unusual. Can you provide me with any more detail? For example, how was the outpost claimed? (I don't see a unit on the hex). Any detail may be a clue. Any other mods you got? If you have some others I can look for a conflict and try and resolve it.

((Mods can have some strange interactions, but this seems an unlikely culprit, unless somehow there's another mod with a neutral unit called "OutpostThief".))


((Also, I mentioned using Debug mode to destroy the units, but actually since they are under your command you can just disband them with the Disband action.))

For a stop-gap so you can continue, use the Debug mode and destroy the offending units.

Celtik- that's exactly how the mod works! It is supposed to immediately sacrifice the fort units though. I know it has done so in testing, I wonder what has changed. I'll look into it.

In addition to my previous comment, unfortunately it is worse than just a graphical glitch. The mod spawns an invisible outpost thief fortification around the claimed outpost. It is blocking movement all around the outpost.

Here is a screenshot (sorry about the brightness, it is not like this in game, anyway you can clearly see the issue): https://ibb.co/XZB713vB

We are using this mod in a coop game because there is an AI player in our team. We were able to get an outpost from the AI that it stole right under our nose, the mod worked great.

However now there is the outpost thief icon above all hexes around the outpost. It seems to be only a graphical glitch but it is annoying. Any idea how to remove it? If we disable the mod the game crashes.

BoSmoke - yw! Enjoy.

nm, just had to start a new game! TY much brother o7

I was wondering how exactly you use this? I have not been able to see outpost thief option but I am 8 hours into this game lol tired. I am SM and put a fortress down next to an outpost only for the allies to build a city right next to mine and take them. I do have a unit on said outpost btw.

Really should soothe a lot of ruffled feathers when playing MP. Sometimes, a faction gets boxed into the corner, and has to request allies not to take obvious outposts... this solves all that haggling ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

"Outpost thief"
This is a neat feature especially when playing with AI team mates.

I have a mod which I never published which does the same but with another unique unit which is removed the turn after. I'll not publish that mod now :)