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Modding => Released Mods => XPiratez => Topic started by: machinehater on July 13, 2020, 09:44:11 pm
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Hey!
I searched for over an hour now, can't find any answer, so i may ask you here:
I play ironman, and, for some strange reason, i am about to lose the game, because my score is very low for the second month now.
If i lose a game, because of bad decisions, it is perfectly fine, but i feel that i got some bad rng, maybe researched the wrong things, i play blind. Just do not want to lose all my work.
Can i edit the savegame somehow in preventing a game-over?
Not getting much money is ok for me, just want to go on.
Can't find anything in the savegame, that seems to change what i want (if possible i do not want to cheat on the score, how said before, if they do not want to pay me anymore, it's ok. If this is the only way, fine, but i can't find the score in the safegame!)
Please help me.
Armin
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Uh, i just found something in the ruleset piratez_globals (defeatScore: -900) .
Is it this?
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Yeah, it was the defeatScore.
I just leave the topic here, in case some other poor guy has the same question.
Cheers
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The most likely source of your game over is some enemy craft with a very long running mission, outside your radar range. Aside from green civilian craft, everything generates negative score flying around and additional negative score sitting landed.
Certain craft like excavators run mission that last for weeks and spend most of there time landed.
To combat this in the early game when you don't have global radar coverage check the score graphs by region to see what region has the mission active then go look for it and kill it.
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Thank you!
But how do i reveal enemy ships outside my Radar Range?
With expeditions?
Can i send them to america, if i am in asia?
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Just patrol, what's new about this?
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Well, this was a stupid question i suppose...
Anyway, somewhere in the game i must have taken a wrong turn, i am still with one base and there seems to go on very much shit outside of my knowledge.
Time to expand (and throw away lots of dollaros)!
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Dollaros in your bank account don't help you anyway, unless you are saving for something specific.
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If you are that desperate, just download my 50 Million dollar loan mod. It will give you a peace of mind.
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Uh, i just found something in the ruleset piratez_globals (defeatScore: -900) .
Is it this?
If I am not mistaken you could also just clear the warning flag in your save:
warned: false
It is below the expenditures, just search for wanred. That will save you for a month, the game will simply forget that it warned you last month. You will still lose next month, because the flag will be raised again, since you have a negative score this month.
NOTE: I actually haven't tested that, but it should work.
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If i lose a game, because of bad decisions, it is perfectly fine, but i feel that i got some bad rng, maybe researched the wrong things, i play blind. Just do not want to lose all my work.
Ofc it's bad decisions. Knowingly or unknowingly. If you're not proactive, the system is designed to make you lose through low score sooner or later. It usually happens around early-mid year 2, depending on your luck. (It's one of very few ways you can actually lose).
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I play ironman, and, for some strange reason, i am about to lose the game, because my score is very low for the second month now.
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maybe researched the wrong things, i play blind.
Why-oh-why did you decide to do a hard challenge (which is playing ironman) if you have not learned the advanced mechanics of the game? It's trying to drive a race car blindfolded, before you even learn how to drive.
Playing ironman basically demands you use any and all the tricks (I don't mean cheating) you have at your disposal to win. How to expand aggressively. Which factions to take on, and which ones to leave alone. Which shipping is free game and which is a death trap. How to protect against missiles. What to research and when. Which pieces of gear are optimal for a given playstyle/role. Using activity graph as a poor man's radar. And so on... You have no rollback, so you have little room for mistakes. And RNGesus will make you commit a couple of mistakes anyway.
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Why-oh-why did you decide to do a hard challenge (which is playing ironman) if you have not learned the advanced mechanics of the game? It's trying to drive a race car blindfolded, before you even learn how to drive.
Playing ironman basically demands you use any and all the tricks (I don't mean cheating) you have at your disposal to win. How to expand aggressively. Which factions to take on, and which ones to leave alone. Which shipping is free game and which is a death trap. How to protect against missiles. What to research and when. Which pieces of gear are optimal for a given playstyle/role. Using activity graph as a poor man's radar. And so on... You have no rollback, so you have little room for mistakes. And RNGesus will make you commit a couple of mistakes anyway.
Well i can answer that from my personal viewpoint. I play ironman because anything else feels like cheating to me. So any game that gives the option, i take it. (that, and i am too lazy to remember saving when needed, ehm... :))
And i also play (played) blind, because it is the excitement of discovery that makes the game fun for me. Looking up what to research would be like checking who the murderer is before starting to read a detective novel.
That being said, i absolutely understand that doing the above means i will hit a wall face-first more often than not. But i am okay with that - i love restarting to try a different approach (which is why i am so excited about L3 coming out - an excuse to start over! :))
So in short, play any way you want, just don't complain after ;)
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To answer the original question, you can just cheat in-game, in Geoscape press Ctrl+D and then Ctrl+6 (with debug: true in options.cfg). This will reset the entire monthly xcom and alien activity.
To reply on some other stuff:
- if you play ironman because everything else feels like cheating, then your will is so weak that you'll eventually cheat anyway
- by playing ironman, you are actively refusing to help both modders and developers with bugfixing and development, since you can't provide saves which are in most cases the only thing that can help with bugfixing
- if I had a nickel each time I see a corrupted save because someone ragequitted (alt+F4) at the point in game where creating a valid save is not possible (e.g. during debriefing)... I'd have a LOT of nickels :) And many people would be able to finish their campaigns instead of having one unloadable save and no backup
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- if you play ironman because everything else feels like cheating, then your will is so weak that you'll eventually cheat anyway
It took me some time to understand how you could possibly arrive at that conclusion, but i think i get it now: You think someone who has to choose ironman feels like he has to do it because otherwise the temptation to reload would be insurmountable. Ergo, his will is weak, and as such, he would cheat anyway.
Well, no. I do not choose ironman because otherwise i would reload - i choose ironman because i know i would never reload, so i might as well play ironman. For me, it is "the right way to play". Losing a save to corruption is an acceptable risk to me (just an excuse to start over really so not much of a risk to begin with).
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- by playing ironman, you are actively refusing to help both modders and developers with bugfixing and development, since you can't provide saves which are in most cases the only thing that can help with bugfixing
- if I had a nickel each time I see a corrupted save because someone ragequitted (alt+F4) at the point in game where creating a valid save is not possible (e.g. during debriefing)... I'd have a LOT of nickels :) And many people would be able to finish their campaigns instead of having one unloadable save and no backup
^ Should the "superhuman" button even be in game then? Particuarly if there's known bugs that allow a 100+ hour save to get corrupted. I play "ironman" but never hit the button for these reasons, and most games released these days that are "ironman" have autosaves anyways. A button never stopped people ironmanning UFO defense.
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^ Should the "superhuman" button even be in game then?
If you mean "ironman" button... I would very much like to see it gone... but once a feature is introduced, it's not easy to remove (without people rioting on streets).
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Well, not sure how much coding it would be, but ADOM has a nifty feature. It's basically Ironman (it deletes the save file upon load), if you die, it's the end. But it still keeps autosaves that the game somehow uses if the last play session was not ended gracefully. I don't know the technical details but it works pretty well. Any crashes, power outages and even save file corruption is averted. Probably too complicated for OXCE to implement it though, just for the sake of a feature that is used mostly for challenges.
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It took me some time to understand how you could possibly arrive at that conclusion, but i think i get it now: You think someone who has to choose ironman feels like he has to do it because otherwise the temptation to reload would be insurmountable. Ergo, his will is weak, and as such, he would cheat anyway.
Well, no. I do not choose ironman because otherwise i would reload - i choose ironman because i know i would never reload, so i might as well play ironman. For me, it is "the right way to play". Losing a save to corruption is an acceptable risk to me (just an excuse to start over really so not much of a risk to begin with).
It's not nice to play dumb like this and ignore other points Meridian made, only so you can double-down on what you have written before. It doesn't add credibility to your claims, quite the opposite.
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It's not nice to play dumb like this and ignore other points Meridian made, only so you can double-down on what you have written before. It doesn't add credibility to your claims, quite the opposite.
I believe when someone calls you a weak-willed cheater because he apparently misunderstood what you wrote, you have the right to clarify.
If that is not correct, then i apologize. Your forum, your rules.
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You called us (everybody who doesn't play ironman) cheaters first, remember? :)
Well i can answer that from my personal viewpoint. I play ironman because anything else feels like cheating to me.
Anyway, I don't have anything against cheaters, everyone is free to play as they like.
I just wanted to show the second side of the ironman mode... a mode, which brings me personally only trouble, nothing else, week by week, month by month, year by year.
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You called us (everybody who doesn't play ironman) cheaters first, remember? :)
Honestly, it has not even crossed my mind what i wrote could be interpreted that way. I was only talking about my personal preference. But, in retrospect, i understand now.
Maybe instead of "anything else feels like cheating" i should have written "anything else goes against my personal ruleset" which says "thou shall live with the consequences of thine actions" :)
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"thou shall live with the consequences of thine actions" :)
Better option for this is to play "honestman" to live with the consequences, the ironman mode in OXC doesn't hold any of the bragging rights it might hold elsewhere.
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That's what I called dumb; ignoring the fact ironman mode makes it near-impossible to debug (ie. someone playing ironman mode is useless to everybody else), which Meridian explained in really simple to understand words. Also I don't believe Meridian called YOU specifically a weak-willed person, just spoke from experience and general wisdom (which I can fully confirm). How many OXCE players do you know? We have seen hundreds if not thousands. Yet ofc some people are so arrogant they think everything is about THEM personally. Some humility there, please.
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Let's stop here.
Both stax77 and myself have used words that can be misunderstood. We have both admitted it, no hard feelings, let's move on.
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Hmm. Perhaps Ironman mode should save the last X autosaves somewhere, but 'hidden' (eg. with the extension renamed) so they don't appear in the load list. This would preserve the spirit of Ironman but would leave you with something to submit if you hit a bug.