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@dysmorphis-hub dysmorphis-hub released this 09 Jun 19:55
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EVE Combat AI — v0.6.0-alpha "Technical Overhaul"

The July technical-polish + bugfix release. Goes through the Nexus bug tracker and comments,
fixes the install pain, and adds a proper one-click control app. Built from user bug
reports and feedback on Nexus.

⭐ Headline: EVE Control Center (new installer + launcher + live monitor)

install.bat and the console-launcher are replaced by a single app (ships via GitHub, in
the backend bundle — the Nexus plugin still installs via Vortex as before):

  • Auto-detects Starfield (Steam registry + library folders, with manual override).
  • One Install button: drops sfse_http.dll into Data\SFSE\Plugins, enables the EVE
    plugin in Plugins.txt, writes eve_config.ini — all with robust quoted paths. No more
    "path not found", no more truncated-.bat failures on non-English Windows.
  • Customizable LLM port (dropdown + field), GPU selector (NVIDIA CUDA / AMD Vulkan),
    model dropdown (any .gguf you drop in).
  • Live console (bottom half): streams Eve Core ↔ llama-server REST traffic
    (/decide, /completion, …) so you can watch EVE think in real time —
    timestamped, color-coded by category (combat / companion / director / llama),
    with a search box and req=N health coloring.
  • In-game log feed: a papyrus toggle tails your Starfield Papyrus log and folds the
    EVE-relevant lines (our traces + EVE error stacks, no other-mod spam) into the same
    console — so the LLM decisions and the in-game script behaviour line up on one timeline.
  • Start / Stop / Uninstall buttons.

Antivirus note: because it runs local servers, some AV may flag it (same false-positive
class as the .pyd). It's 100% local; nothing leaves your PC.

🐛 Bug fixes (from your reports)

Dropships / reinforcements

  • Wrong faction fixed — a Crimson Fleet dropship reinforcing a Spacer POI (djoole). The
    faction is now chosen by majority vote across the whole squad, not just the first body.
  • On/off switch — ReinforcementOff kills dropships entirely while keeping the combat AI.
  • Lands in/through buildings — fixed. Before committing a landing, EVE scans nearby
    structures and spirals the landing spot outward — up to 30 tries, each stepping
    farther from you (~80 m → ~350 m) and rotating the bearing — taking the nearest clear
    spot    . In a building-dense POI it pushes out and around until it finds open ground instead of
    dropping the ship on a roof. Only if it's completely boxed in all the way out to ~350 m does
    it fall back to crew-only insertion (no ship = no clipping). ReinforcementCrewOnlyOn
    forces crew-only if you never want the ship physics. (Distant drops are intentional — the crew
    marches in.)
  • Less frequent — the "2-in-10-decisions" cap is kept and exposed as a tunable.

World Director (POIs)

  • No POI mid-conversation. Director ticks are gated by the shared dialog check, so a POI
    never assembles while you're talking to someone.
  • Own notification toggle — DirectorNotifyOn/Off, independent of the combat channel.
  • Stability: the ghost-quest guard (below) stops a stale cross-version save from spawning a
    second Director instance — the cause of duplicate/erratic POIs after an update. Start clean
    (new save or the re-bind dance) and the Director runs as a single instance.

Swarm ⭐

  • The swarm actually reaches you. Pulled creatures used to be aggroed toward a single
    stale point and never re-driven, so "23 pulled" but nothing arrived. EVE now re-drives
    every engaged swarm creature to your current position on a repeating beat     (rush style +
    200 % speed + sprint), so the swarm keeps converging as you move.
  • Creature-feature mode. Against alien creatures, swarm is now the priority tactic —
    when it's available the director keeps picking it (and it's exempt from the variety filter),
    so fauna encounters become an 80s drown-you-in-bodies swarm. Human factions are unaffected
    (normal suppress/cover/flank/regroup).

Dialog

  • EVE no longer interrupts conversations. Combat dispatch, POI spawns and dropships are
    all gated while you're in dialog — fixes the "stuck in chat with no exit" lockup in Neon
    (liquidcool25). It resumes the instant the conversation ends.

Log spam

  • "Unbound scripts cannot start timers" — gone. The orphaned ghost-quest instance can no
    longer fire timers (guarded on init state). (djoole)

Companion

  • Andreja keeps her gun. Companion suppress no longer scripts a melee rush (that drove
    the "drops weapon, runs in with fists"); it now holds ranged aggression, with a safe
    fallback combat style + a boot warning if the style is unbound.

Setup

  • Custom llama port actually works now. Eve Core read the port from eve_config.ini
    everywhere — it was hardcoded to 8080 in the compiled backend (djoole). Set
    [llama] port = 8081 and it's honored. (Eve Core's own port stays 7777 — baked into the
    plugin.)
  • Uninstall fixed — now a Control Center button with robust paths (the old
    uninstall.bat "path not found").
  • Non-English Windows — build scripts converted to ANSI/CRLF so CMD stops dropping the
    first characters of commands (the Korean install.bat fix, generalized).

Notifications

  • Per-feature toggles — every system has its own now, all default off:
    NotifyOn/Off (combat), ReinforcementNotifyOn/Off, CompanionNotifyOn/Off,
    DirectorNotifyOn/Off. See EVE_CONSOLE_COMMANDS.md.

🔧 Under the hood

  • All Papyrus scripts recompiled (v0.6.0-alpha) and the backend .pyd rebuilt with a new
    shared eve_settings module for the port config.
  • New shared dialog gate (EveInit.PlayerInDialog, via Cassiopeia IsMenuOpen).
  • Shared bounds-based clearance scan (EveInit.CollectLargeStructures / PointClearOfStructures)
    used by both the dropship landing and the POI placement.
  • Swarm gets a repeating drive timer (re-targets engaged creatures to the player), and the
    combat prompt + action filter make swarm the priority pick vs creatures.
  • Ghost-quest guard (eveInitialized) gates combat/timer/dispatch so a stale serialized
    instance can't fire on a [None] host or duplicate the decision stream.

Update

Standard re-bind after updating (the usual stopquest → save → reload → startquest → save
per quest — see EVE_CONSOLE_COMMANDS.md). Re-run the Control Center Install once.

Known follow-ups (not in this build)

  • ini-driven defaults for the per-feature toggles — the console toggles ship now; reading
    their default states from eve_config.ini on boot is still to come.
  • Stable EvePlugin.esm filename (to retire the manual re-bind dance) — needs more in-game
    testing of Starfield's binding serialization before it can be trusted; deferred.
  • Antivirus false positives on the .pyd / Control Center exe — code-signing is the fix;
    still open.
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