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Old January 3, 2000, 03:51   #1
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Explanations of SMAC Config Text Files
Is there any kind of explanatory notes regarding the config text files such as alpha.txt? That would be very handly for all potential world builders.
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Old January 3, 2000, 19:36   #2
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I thought Apolyton or SidGames had a section like that...
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Old January 11, 2000, 04:36   #3
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Along these lines -- anybody know what the seven zeroes at the end of several lines in the following part of alpha.txt control?

#CITIZENS
Technician, Technicians, None, Fusion, 3, 0, 0, 0000000
Doctor, Doctors, None, CentMed, 0, 2, 0, 0000000
Librarian, Librarians, PlaNets, MindMac, 0, 0, 3, 0000000
Engineer, Engineers, Fusion, Disable, 3, 0, 2, 0000000
Empath, Empathi, CentMed, AlphCen, 2, 2, 0, 0000000
Thinker, Thinkers, MindMac, AlphCen, 0, 1, 3, 0000000
Transcend, Transcendi, AlphCen, Disable, 2, 2, 4, 0000000
Drone, Drones,
Worker, Workers,
Talent, Talents,
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Must be flags. It would be interesting to see what would happen if you turned some of them on...
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Old January 12, 2000, 19:11   #5
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What about all those 0's outside SP's


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Old January 13, 2000, 04:22   #6
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Originally posted by heardie on 01-12-2000 06:11 PM
What about all those 0's outside SP's
They determine how badly the AI wants that SP. The first is the agressiveness rating, negative numbers being pacifist and positive numbers being force-using. The next four are the conquer/military, discover/knowledge, build/infrastructure, and explore/colonize "values" of the SP to the AI.

So the Hive, for example, would prefer a 1, 2, 0, -1, 0, SP (like the Command Nexus) to a -1, 0, 0, 1, 1, SP (like the Human Genome Project).
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Old January 13, 2000, 16:11   #7
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Originally posted by Urban Ranger on 01-03-2000 02:51 AM
Is there any kind of explanatory notes regarding the config text files such as alpha.txt? That would be very handly for all potential world builders.
alpha.txt http://apolyton.net/smac/modification/alphatxt.shtml

faction.txt http://apolyton.net/smac/modification/factiontxt.shtml
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Old January 17, 2000, 04:48   #8
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Old January 17, 2000, 07:12   #9
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With the #WORLDBUILDER section of alpha.txt
I've played a little bit with these two lines

15, ; Deep water (Encourages fractal to grow deep water)
10, ; Shelf (Encourages fractal to grow shelf)

But it seems that the shelf setting has a threshold of 50. Setting a value above this seems to make it totally random. Also when using custom size maps (eg 128x256) the amount of land seems to be that of the 64x128 sized map with the remainder being set as normal ocean.
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I think you need to go into the basic Alpha.txt and change the values for "Huge Planet" from 64,128 to 128,256 or even 256,512 (and then select Huge Map instead of Custom Map)to get morelandmass on the humongous maps.

At least it worked for me with Map of Planet - haven't actually tried it with a truly humongous custom map as I like the 90% water feature anyway.

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