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Bateau <Bateau-is-a@MAN.invalid> wrote in
news:j6jbs1tecp16oe205ua4m331ucqr6j327h@4ax.com: 
> thewises <thewises@enter.net> wrote:
>>How do you modify MISSIONS.DAT? I found some information about other
>>X-COM save game files, but I couldn't find anything on this one. My
>>understanding is that it controls what missions the aliens are doing.
>>So if you hack this file, could you change what missions the aliens
>>do? 
> 
> Try Scott Host, author of XCOMUTIL.

I don't think that XCOMUTIL has any options for modifying MISSIONS.DAT. It 
seems to me that every time you start a new game, it selects what missions 
the aliens do, and in what region. The only way to get a different set of 
missions is to start a completely new game. I want to know if you can 
modify this file so that you can force the aliens to do a specific mission 
in a specific region. For example, I could cause floaters to conduct a 
terror mission in Australia. Or whatever mission I want.

Apparently it's not just MISSIONS.DAT that has to be modified. There's 
another file, ZONAL.DAT which (I think) controls what regions the aliens 
are operating in.