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word      Action that Failed
word      Ship Id (0 if not applicable)
word      Planet Id (0 if not applicable)
word      Cause
...optional addition data

Sent when: some action fails

Sent to: owner of the unit which tried the action

This record is intended as a general failure report mechanism, to avoid the need to guess why an order didn't work.

The Action field contains the action that failed; by convention, this is a utilX.dat record number, or a larger number if there is no equivalent record. The Cause field contains a standard failure code. The record provides space for optional additional data.

Failure codes: The following Cause codes are currently defined. Not all of them are already used. The first codes are equivalent to those used in the cloak failure record.

Codes currently in use: These are all the Action / Cause combinations which PHost currently generates.

• Action = 16 (Ship Recycled)
  • Cause = 14: attempt to recycle a ship you don't own (some clients wrongly allow you to set these orders).
• Action = 18 (Ship Colonized)
  • Cause = 15: planet was inhabited by unfriendly race
• Action = 20 (Ship Construction)
  • Cause = 10: cloning of a ship failed due to lacking minerals. This message is sent when you do not have enough minerals by the turn the ship is actually scheduled for building.
  • Cause = 11: clone order not accepted because starbase doesn't have sufficient tech.
  • Cause = 14: clone order not accepted because you can build this ship normally.
  • Cause = 18: clone order not accepted because ship is unclonable.
• Action = 21 (Ship Trade, give command)
  • Cause = 12: receiver didn't have a ship or planet at the ship position
  • Cause = 18: ship is ungiveable
• Action = 35 (Cloak Failure)
  • Cause = 0: cloak failed due to random chance
  • Cause = 1: cloak failed due to insufficient fuel
  • Cause = 2: cloak failed due to excessive hull damage
  • Cause = 3: cloak failed due to an ionic pulse
  • Cause = 4: cloak failed due to wormhole travel
  • Cause = 5: cloak failed due to a tachyon pulse (from a Loki)
  • Cause = 6: cloak failed due to ion storm
• Action = 45 (Planet Trade, give command)
  • Cause = 12: receiver didn't have a ship at the planet
• Action = 56 (Repair)
  • Cause = 15: attempt to repair a ship you don't own and you are not allied with.
• Action = 10000 (ship mission failed)
  This record describes a failed ship mission, which may not have their own util.dat record number. It contains three words of additional data, reporting the mission, intercept and tow numbers.
  • Cause = 0: Rob failed due to random chance
  • Cause = 10: towing ship ran out of fuel, training ship had no fuel, Academy ship trying to exchange crew had no fuel.
  • Cause = 13: attempt to lay mines but AllowMinefields resp. AllowWebMines is off
  • Cause = 14: attempt to RGA or pillage a planet which has already been plundered this turn
  • Cause = 15: attempt to lay mines in someone else's Id without permission (MineIdNeedsPermission); a Gather-type mission or training failed because the planet was not friendly, crew exchange failed because target ship didn't have ship-level alliance or matching friendly code.
  • Cause = 16: all minefield slots are used
  • Cause = 17: MaximumMinefieldsPerPlayer limit exceeded
  • Cause = 18: tow strength too weak to tow target
  • Cause = 19: attempt to add mines to a non-existing, non-matching, or maximum-size field, attempt to transfer torpedoes, fighters or cash to a ship that is at a different place or cannot carry the torpedoes/fighters, attempt to train while not at a planet, target ship for crew exchange not existant or at different location.
  • Cause = 20: attempt to train but ExperienceLimit already reached