This didn't even attempt to throw capsules for me, and when I threw capsules manually it crashed the game. :(

Steps to reproduce:

• Start new game

• Cheat in all technologies (for follower count) to be above 0: /c game.player.force.research_all_technologies()

• Get Armor/Defender Capsules and auto-deployer items (infinity chest start mod is great for testing)

• Equip all and run into foe's base. Nothing happened.

• I ran out (biters followed) and then I started throwing defender capsules manually. I got 1 thrown, and the second one threw error.

The mod Auto Deploy Destroyers (2.2.0) caused a non-recoverable error.
Please report this error to the mod author.

Error while running event Auto_Deploy_Destroyers::on_tick (ID 0)
LuaGameScript doesn't contain key write_file.
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'index'
__Auto_Deploy_Destroyers/autodestroy/enemyweight.lua:79: in function 'getEnemyWeightAround'
Auto_Deploy_Destroyers/autodestroy/enemyweight.lua:27: in function 'getEnemyWeightLazyLoaded'
Auto_Deploy_Destroyers/autodestroy/recall.lua:24: in function 'checkAndRecallBots'
Auto_Deploy_Destroyers/autodestroy/deploycapsule.lua:36: in function 'checkAndDeployFor'
Auto_Deploy_Destroyers/control.lua:17: in function <Auto_Deploy_Destroyers/control.lua:13>
--==--

Error while running event Auto_Deploy_Destroyers::on_tick (ID 0)
LuaGameScript doesn't contain key write_file.
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'index'
__Auto_Deploy_Destroyers/autodestroy/enemyweight.lua:79: in function 'getEnemyWeightAround'
Auto_Deploy_Destroyers/autodestroy/enemyweight.lua:27: in function 'getEnemyWeightLazyLoaded'
Auto_Deploy_Destroyers/autodestroy/deploycapsule.lua:64: in function 'checkAndDeployFor'
Auto_Deploy_Destroyers/control.lua:17: in function <Auto_Deploy_Destroyers/control.lua:13>

Hello, thanks for the detailed report.

It looks like you enabled DEBUG functions to figure out why no bots were deployed, which is the logic thing to do.
But it seems in the DEBUG LOG function there is a bug; the devs moved the write_file function from the game script to a helper script.
I can fix that in the next release. If there is no rush to get this debug part working, that will probably be in about 1 month from now.
For now please disable in the mod settings the Debug log option.

To figure out why no bots are deployed, you can keep the DEBUG PRINT option enabled...that one should still work.
My guess is that you will see an X amount of biters detected, but 0 bots to deploy calculated.
This mod is balanced around the mid- to late game where you have plenty capsules, strong(er) biters and some other weapons to fight off smaller groups.
So it is possible that you need a larger enemy force to see auto-deploy working.

You can either load a more realistic save (make a copy if you don't want to try this on your main save), or increase the enemies in your test map.
Alternative is to try to configure the "Aggression Factor" in the mod settings, but i'm not sure it will work to increase zero bots to a non-zero number (it is intended to decrease the calculated number of bots to deploy). Set it to something like 10, 50 or 100.

If you still can't get deployment to work, please try to copy or make a screenshot of the DEBUG PRINT when you're walking near biters with the equipment in your armor and enough capsules in your inventory.