Author Topic: Campaign changes - Need Help (Read 17565 times)

Nahdar · « **on:** November 25, 2012, 11:21:20 »

Hello folks,

I rediscoverd Nexus TJJ a few days ago and i still love it

I tried to succesfully end the campaign on professional, which is nearly impossibil.

So I wanna change my ressouce point amount and unlock all devices and weapons from the start.
I googled and found this: http://naarsika.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=308&t=10162

But i still do not understand WHERE I can change the ressouces point and WHERE I controll WHEN every Device or Weapon is avialabe in the Nexus Tactics Excel file.
And at least I have to know where the tactics.ini file is, i readed a lot about but i still do not find it.
And of course if there is a another (easier

) way to achive what i want, maybe with the tactics.ini file...
I would apprciate any Help

Nahdar

The Old Dragon · « **Reply #1 on:** November 25, 2012, 17:15:33 »

Hi there Nahdar,

As far as I'm aware, there isn't a 'tactics.ini' file. There is a tactics folder which contains the 'tacticsai.ini', 'tacticsbase.ini' and 'tacticstypes.ini' files; however, none of these will help with changing what resource points you get or when devices become available. You need to look in the 'rules' files to do this.

Have a look in 'Nexus - The Jupiter Incident\Universe\Story\Rules'. In here you'll find what you need to change.
A word of warning though - back these files up before you do anything! If you get the slightest thing wrong, N:TJI will crash without any warnings or messages.

Nahdar · « **Reply #2 on:** November 25, 2012, 18:09:21 »

Thank you for you fast answer!

But i do not found a main file of nexus is no "universe"
I've got just "mod_tools" "mod" and "save" the rest are exe. and .dat files

The Old Dragon · « **Reply #3 on:** November 26, 2012, 10:12:35 »

Ahh, you've not 'unpacked' the Nexus_00.Dat file. This is where all the game files required by the story live.

Head over to http://www.moddb.com/groups/the-nexii/downloads/elfartos-datool/#3369057 and download a program called 'DaTool', this version should come with full instructions I believe.

Arparso · « **Reply #4 on:** November 26, 2012, 10:52:38 »

If you're not comfortable with command-line tools, then you may also use "DatXtract" from here on this forum, which also gets the job done extracting the nexus_00.dat:

Download DatXtract

Nahdar · « **Reply #5 on:** November 26, 2012, 16:32:45 »

How can i save my changes?

I extract the complete nexus_00.dat in a desktop file, but if i understand it right, I have to recomprimize the nexus_00.dat file again after i did my changes? How can i do that, did not find it in the readme.

The Old Dragon · « **Reply #6 on:** November 26, 2012, 16:52:05 »

Nope, Nexus runs quite happily with the folders version of Nexus_00.dat. Just make sure that you have either the Nexus_00.dat file or the folders in the root directory. Nexus will get confused and won't run if you have them both.

Nahdar · « **Reply #7 on:** November 26, 2012, 17:11:20 »

YES! it works,

Big thank you

Just one thing left to be perfekt now. Do you know how i can unlock the locked slots of the brutus and sparta? I can't find it in there ...

GeoModder · « **Reply #8 on:** November 28, 2012, 19:04:51 »

Quote from: Nahdar on November 26, 2012, 17:11:20

Just one thing left to be perfekt now. Do you know how i can unlock the locked slots of the brutus and sparta? I can't find it in there ...

I *think* you can change this in the universe/tactics/tacticstypes.ini file in combination with the universe/story/objects/player_fleet.sobj file. Never mind if you can't see .ini or .sobj extensions after those filenames.

But before tinkering there, MAKE A COPY OF THESE FILES AND STORE THEM ON ANOTHER FOLDER!

In tacticstypes, you'll find in the SHIPTYPE 48 and SHIPTYPE 49 paragraphs a line saying "Devices #weap_heLaser ;" and "Devices #weap_techScanner ;".
Elsewhere in these paragraphs devices are defined using a "DefDevices" parameter instead of the "Devices" parameter. I think using the "Devices" parameter makes a device unchangeable in the ship configuration screen. Try changing these two "Devices" parameters to "DefDevices", and start a new campaign (iirc, the contents of most Nexus files are only read into a new campaign at the start of it, not halfway an existing campaign safe file).