Nexus Skirmisher
Nexus - The Jupiter Incident => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nahdar on November 25, 2012, 11:21:20
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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 (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 :D
Nahdar
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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.
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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
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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 (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.
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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 (http://arparso.de/nexus/forum/index.php/topic,129.0.html)
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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.
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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.
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YES! it works,
Big thank you :D
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 ...
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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).