How do I edit the save file to increase my current funds?

[Moon_Dew]

I'm wanting to edit the save file so that I can increase my current funds (not funding, but the funds I've earned and have yet to spend).  I know where the save file is, but I'm still not sure as how to go about it.  Could someone help me out here?

Before anyone says anything, yes, I know the answer's probably in ufopedia, but that site's down right now, with no sign of coming back up any time soon.

[Countdown]

So you want us to help you cheat? 

If you go into the save file and use CTRL+F to search for "funds" it will give you a list of numbers. The bottom one is your current cash. I've edited the file when I've done dumb things like buy 30 scientists when I  meant to buy 30 engineers.

As far as UFOPaedia, I don't even know if something like that would be in there. UFOPaedia is more for XCOM in general rather than Open XCOM specifically. There is an Open XCOM section with a helpful guide to the rulesets, but I don't know how thoroughly other things are covered.

While UFOPaedia is down you can use the internet archive to look up basically anything there. Not 100% up to date, but most of the information is unchanging since the game is from 1994: https://web.archive.org/web/20160225145259https:///www.https://ufopaedia.org/

[Gyuudon]

Requesting invincible squaddies... unlimited money.... Why even play this mod?

[Bloax]

My best guess is that this is to learn the contents of the mod (even though playing it blind is part of the fun) now that ufopaedia is kill.

[Cristao]

Download Notepad+ and open the save file. I am not going to tell you more than that.

[Arthanor]

You don't need to download anything. OpenXCom saves are ascii files and can be read in any text editor (WordPad or notepad should work fine in Windows)

[yrizoud]

I doubt they are ASCII, as they contain soldier/base/ship names.
It would be safer to use an editor which won't change the existing encoding, and a real editor like Notepad++ can be configured for the TAB key to produce a number of spaces.

[Arthanor]

I've never had issues opening them in the default text editors I have and remember editing stuff on my windows computer sometimes (although that was rulesets Ithink). Notepad++ is better, sure, but I doubt it is required, especially for something as simple as this. Anyhow.. try and see.

[Cristao]

^I recommended Notepad++ because he is less likely to make an error. Well as long as he selects YAML code and looks out for red.

[Solarius Scorch]

Weird, I always screw up when editing with Notepad++ because it tries to do stuff without asking me. Mostly "fixing" the number of spaces even though I did it by hand. In short, I hate the bastard and stick to the simpler EditPad.

[BetaSpectre]

The save files all hold the funding data, I forget the exact word but with notepad or notepad+ you can find a number that's the same as your current funds and edit it.

I liked to do this for the original X-Com cause a clandestine last line of defense against an alien menace only getting what some businesses get in funding just didn't make much sense to me.

Sometimes I would play the originals without ever using armor or advanced weapons just to show that the basic gear isn't that underpowered haha.