How can I change the starting game year?

[PogueMahone]

I would like to mod SE5 so that I can have year one as the starting year, and also so that the turn year increment is one year per turn instead of one tenth of a year per turn. Can this be done? I looked in settings.txt and didn't see anything in there that would effect the starting year or the turn year increment, nor did I see any other data folders that looked like they would cover either of those things.

[PogueMahone]

Well of course as soon as I submitted my post I found the value in settings.txt that changes the starting game year.

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Starting Game Date := 24000

The turn year increment is still one tenth of a year when I set the date to 1, but at least I can set the starting year.

[Ed Kolis]

There's a field in Settings.txt called "Game Time Rate Multiplier" or somesuch - I think if you set that to 10, then the turns will increment one year per turn, but I've never tried it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[PogueMahone]

I tried that and it had no effect. I'm thinking maybe it effects what things cost at different stages of the game, but that's just a guess. It doesn't do anything to the turn year increment though.

[Ed Kolis]

Strange, well, I sent an email to Malfador about the issue...

[Captain Kwok]

That setting doesn't effect the game date, but rather the rate at which the system animations occur.

[Ed Kolis]

Yep, that's what Aaron said http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[PogueMahone]

Well thanks for trying anyway! At least I'm able to change the starting date. I can always pretend the decimal point isn't there. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Leternel]

but remember that building like atmospheric modification plant use true years, so what is called 5 years are 50 turns...