.com.unity Forums
  The Official e-Store of Shrapnel Games

This Month's Specials

BCT Commander- Save $8.00
winSPWW2- Save $5.00

   







Go Back   .com.unity Forums > Shrapnel Community > Space Empires: IV & V > SEV Modders Knowledge Base

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old May 28th, 2008, 08:20 PM

PogueMahone PogueMahone is offline
Private
 
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 4
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
PogueMahone is on a distinguished road
Default How can I change the starting game year?

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.
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old May 28th, 2008, 08:36 PM

PogueMahone PogueMahone is offline
Private
 
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 4
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
PogueMahone is on a distinguished road
Default Re: How can I change the starting game year?

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.
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old May 28th, 2008, 09:16 PM
Ed Kolis's Avatar

Ed Kolis Ed Kolis is offline
General
 
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Posts: 4,547
Thanks: 1
Thanked 7 Times in 5 Posts
Ed Kolis is on a distinguished road
Default Re: How can I change the starting game year?

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
__________________
The Ed draws near! What dost thou deaux?
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old May 28th, 2008, 09:35 PM

PogueMahone PogueMahone is offline
Private
 
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 4
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
PogueMahone is on a distinguished road
Default Re: How can I change the starting game year?

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.
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old May 29th, 2008, 12:11 PM
Ed Kolis's Avatar

Ed Kolis Ed Kolis is offline
General
 
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Posts: 4,547
Thanks: 1
Thanked 7 Times in 5 Posts
Ed Kolis is on a distinguished road
Default Re: How can I change the starting game year?

Strange, well, I sent an email to Malfador about the issue...
__________________
The Ed draws near! What dost thou deaux?
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old May 29th, 2008, 01:35 PM
Captain Kwok's Avatar

Captain Kwok Captain Kwok is offline
National Security Advisor
 
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 5,623
Thanks: 1
Thanked 14 Times in 12 Posts
Captain Kwok is on a distinguished road
Default Re: How can I change the starting game year?

That setting doesn't effect the game date, but rather the rate at which the system animations occur.
__________________
Space Empires Depot | SE:V Balance Mod
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old May 29th, 2008, 04:42 PM
Ed Kolis's Avatar

Ed Kolis Ed Kolis is offline
General
 
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Posts: 4,547
Thanks: 1
Thanked 7 Times in 5 Posts
Ed Kolis is on a distinguished road
Default Re: How can I change the starting game year?

Yep, that's what Aaron said
__________________
The Ed draws near! What dost thou deaux?
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old May 29th, 2008, 07:00 PM

PogueMahone PogueMahone is offline
Private
 
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 4
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
PogueMahone is on a distinguished road
Default Re: How can I change the starting game year?

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.
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old May 30th, 2008, 04:06 AM
Leternel's Avatar

Leternel Leternel is offline
Private
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: France
Posts: 46
Thanks: 0
Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post
Leternel is on a distinguished road
Default Re: How can I change the starting game year?

but remember that building like atmospheric modification plant use true years, so what is called 5 years are 50 turns...
__________________
What ever can be the question, 42 is the answer!
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 01:40 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©1999 - 2024, Shrapnel Games, Inc. - All Rights Reserved.