tech limits..
 

i play alot of mods. some i like some i don't .. i always play hard.

the thing is some time i like starting on tech 1.. building alot of crappy ships and taking on things..

but since i take alot of time.. the other party build a tech 4 or 5 ship and there goes my fun..

is there a way of limiting the opposition to the same tech as me?

i dont want to limit the tech at the start of play as i like evenually going to tech 5..

( i play alot and am good, so i always win, on hard. I Just like having some old skool big battle then modern ones in the same game )

any i deas?

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I don't think there's really a straight forward way of locking them to your tech level. You can try to make it more expensive for the Rebels to upgrade by raising the cost of slicing units and make them slice more units. For the Empire you can raise how much it costs to research a tech level and increase the time. Nothing you can really do about the Consortium though.

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What do you mean, exactly, that you want it so that if you're at tech 1 the enemy is at tech 1 without the AI 'cheating'?

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In Campaigns_Underworld_Gc.xml.....
...you could limit their tech level this way. Off the top of my head I can't think of anything right now.

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or you could script it so when you advance a tech level, the advance one

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that is what i want to happen.. if i am on tech 1 they are too.. when i go to tech 2 so do they... TOPS BUT
how do i script that? i have now idea on changing there.

consortium i rarely play mainly play maps where just empire . rebels..

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anyone know how to do these scripits?

:confused::confused:

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is it possible at all?

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Sorry man no clue at all. Doubt anyone has tried this yet. You'd have to do a lot of studying of the existing scripts and functions to see if you could find anything of use.

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he quoted it... i was hoping either he or someone else could do it.. anyone else want something like this?

as said consortium i dont play on rebal or empire in foc

HELP:bows::bows::bows:

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Uhhh... I have no idea. Ask SI, he's our local expert on those tricky things. He should be able to give you the best idea of whether or not it's possible... I don't think so though, personally.
Sorry. :/

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new idea.

what about starting a new game at tech 1 but with tech 5 as max..BUT editing the code somewhere so they all stay at 1 ..then when i want tech 2, quit and change the tech 2 in code . then reload save game?

Would that work..?

or stating game max 1 and then exiting the game, chane the save game tech to max 2?

Would that one work..

though i have not got a clue where this is in the xml code.

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I'm not 100% sure what you're saying, but probably not. Sorry. :/

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It would be under the campaign files, like Campaigns_Underworld_GC.xml ... you can get away with hotswapping some files, but a lot of times it just crashes the game. I'm not even sure it would reference this file again once a particular game is generated. Honestly this is a pretty out there request, I'm not saying it's a bad one... just an unusual one so doubt the dev team ever contemplated supporting something like this.

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oops forgot to reply
any way i suggest at scripting like this:
<Story>
<Event Name="Universal_Story_Start">
<Event_Type>STORY_ELAPSED</Event_Type>
<Event_Param1>1</Event_Param1>
<Branch>Branch_01</Branch>
</Event>
<Event Name="Empire_ActI_Advance_Empire_Tech">
<Event_Type>STORY_TRIGGER</Event_Type>
<Reward_Type>SET_TECH_LEVEL</Reward_Type>
<Reward_Param1>Empire</Reward_Param1>
<Reward_Param2>1</Reward_Param2>
<Prereq>Universal_Story_Start</Prereq>
</Event>
<Event Name="Empire_ActI_Advance_Rebel_Tech">
<Event_Type>STORY_TRIGGER</Event_Type>
<Reward_Type>SET_TECH_LEVEL</Reward_Type>
<Reward_Param1>Rebel</Reward_Param1>
<Reward_Param2>1</Reward_Param2>
<Prereq>Universal_Story_Start</Prereq>
</Event>
</Story>

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and then have something like vador favor as thing to do then you would do it to advance a tech level

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what do you mean like vador favour..

also where to i put all that code?

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Vader's Favor is one of the scripted missions from the original EAW story campaign. You'll have to take a look at the various story xml's, I forget which one it is offhand.

Where you put the code is probably going to depend on which side you're playing. If you're just playing GC it would probably be one of the Story_Plots_Sandbox##.xml files depending on which campaing you're playing and which side. The annoying part is you'll have to code it for the AI twice, also you might have to disable their ability to increase tech levels on their own as well.

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This should work, and goes into the underworld story plot that you would like to have this available for....

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the only probelm with that sidious is that you will be at tech 4 at the start, i would like to make a suggestion like a story elapsed eg.
and keep doing that for so long and add more time, and sidious does the under world have a tech level?

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Thanks for the help, SSdcommander, I did that at 1:00 am after working 18 hours. I would put a <Prereq> of the last tech level.

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sorry for being a tool with the code..

so if i do all that above it will be good for galatic game?