🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:36:20 +0100, "Count Zero" <CountZero1@gmx.de>
wrote:

>Hallo,
>for me even the beginner mode seems to be to hard. My soldiers die to easy,
>therefore I want to cheat a little bit.
>Does anyone has an idea how to increase the armor stats of my men. I'm not
>looking for a savegame editor, but for a game editor to change theses values
>for all unamored troops once and forever.
>I'm more interested in the story than in the fighting itself.

Drop loads of people into research ... Sooner or later something will
come along that you can build to give your guys armour. Research is
absolutely key though ... Early in the unmodified game, I'd be running
a base with something like 20-25 soldiers, 50 research, 10 engineers.
Expansion priority would be on getting new labs built, for more
research. I'd be using 100 scientists, split 50/30/20 between
different projects. After that 100 scientists, I concentrate on
building up the engineers and soldiers so I can build things while
maintaining a decent fighting force.

Try for better guns too ... If you stick to laser based weapons
(they're fairly early) then these guns don't need clips ... Makes it a
bit easier to manage. For a supply of cash, I sell most of the alien
artifacts I get, except for leaving one behind so I can actually
research it :-)

I've been away from X-Com a little while though (I'm waiting to build
a machine called Slowpoke, which at 166MHz will be perfect for X-Com
and Apoc). The place to go for info is Scott Jones's site, which has
patches, links but primarily it has a darn fine editor.

Ere we go : http://xcomutil.scotttjones.com/

Pete Lilleyman
pete.lilleyman@blueyonder.co.getrid.uk
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