Understanding battle strategies...newbie question

tbontob · #1 August 31st, 2002, 03:28 AM

Near the beginning of this thread, Grandpakim says:

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One of the best moves I ever made was to go into DefaultStrategies.txt and change the whole works to the way I wanted it. Now any changes I make are mere refinements to a system I like. A big time saver. Oddly enough, the only thing you can't change (except in-game) is the damage percentages-- no entries in the text file.

Anybody know where the damage percentages are kept?

Fyron · #2 August 31st, 2002, 05:31 AM

Empire Options > Strategies > Damage

tbontob · #3 August 31st, 2002, 02:04 PM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Empire Options > Strategies > Damage

Yes, but the issue is in what file are the damage percentiles placed (if at all). Like the raw data for the default strategies are found in "DefaultStrategies.txt" but this file does not address damage percentages at all.

capnq · #4 August 31st, 2002, 07:14 PM

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the issue is in what file are the damage percentiles placed

Since they're displayed in a spinner, the defaults are probably hardcoded. I'm not sure where the game stores changes you make during play.

tbontob · #5 August 31st, 2002, 08:08 PM

capnq says:

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Since they're displayed in a spinner, the defaults are probably hardcoded. I'm not sure where the game stores changes you make during play.

Another term for me to learn.

What is a "spinner"?

Fyron · #6 August 31st, 2002, 08:27 PM

By "spinner" he means that the display can be thought of as a "wheel". Pushing the left or right arrows next to it rotates the wheel. I doubt that is the reason it must be hard-coded.

This info will be saved in your empire file if you save it during the game (after changing these values).

tbontob · #7 August 31st, 2002, 09:08 PM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
This info will be saved in your empire file if you save it during the game (after changing these values).

Yes, it would have to save it to the savegame file. Otherwise, we would have to reset the damage values every time we loaded the game.

MM does have a standard set of values for "Damage" for all its battle strategies. I am beginning to believe that they were not comtemplating having to change them in the near future to accomodate a new battle strategy which would have different "damage" values.