How do you create a scenario

[geoschmo]

One thing I have found very helpful in reducing the amount of time for the long boring setup part is tweaking the components.txt files, facilities.txt, and vehicle sizes.txt files. I don't mean the same thing as what SJ is talking about. These tweaks are not intended as a mod for the player to play with, only as an aid to speed up the process.

For example, got the super dreadnaughts designed, but they take 2 years to build? Change the space yard facility to build with 20,000 minerals per turn instead of 2,000.

Trying to setup the players 25 starting techs and takes 3 years to research them all? Make a research facility generate 10,000 points instead of 800.

Once you go back to playing with standard files, or your scenario mod files, everything is back to normal.

Geoschmo

[Puke]

On the starting with a super-ship thing, rather than creating a super race and gifting everything, you can lower the tech requirements of the important parts and have each race build it their selves. this way it looks like a ship that would normally belong to them and not an alien ship (which chould be good too)

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"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)

[Noble713]

Is it possible to use the cheat codes to do things like add ships and technology, then turn them off when you go to save the scenario?

[Puke]

yes and no. the idea is not to use cheat codes, but to edit the components.txt to make high tech components available at the start. then when you want the scenario to begin, use the standard data files so those components are not available any longer. this way you have whatever was built at the setup phase, but you cant build any more until it is researched (or never, if you tweak it that way)

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"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)