Help Concerning Fleet Size

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Hi, I've been playing Sins with a few friends for a few years now (since before Entrenchment!), and we've kinda tailored certain aspects of the game to our liking over the years. The only mod I am currently using is Distant Stars (for Diplomacy).

I don't really do a lot of modding, mostly just tweaking (in-game strings, music, portraits, etc.), and now I've run into something I don't think I can easily tweak.

Currently, when setting a game's options, the "Fleet Size" option changes the default fleet capacity by 25%, i.e. 25% increase for larger fleet -- 25% decrease for smaller fleets. To give Starbases and Capital ships a bit more punch, I'd like to try playing with 50% smaller fleet sizes. I just always feel that by end-game I have more ships than I really know what to do with!

I was hoping I could get some advice on where to start making the necessary changes for the additional decrease. I haven't really done at lot of hands on modding in the past, so I thought maybe someone on the forums could point me in the right direction. Thanks for taking the time to help out! :D

 

-M

modding
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Looks like I ended solving my own problem. In case anyone looks here in the future, there are 2 options:

1) gameplay.constants > change the value of fleetSupplyScalar

2) RESEARCHSUBJECT_MAXSHIPSLOTSPHASE1.entity > Change values for each level for each race

Way easier than I expected.  :X

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

I must be doing something wrong... I edit the fleetSupplyScalar line for small to .25 and still nothing...

 

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

What folder were you in?  For instance, if you edited the file in the Sins game folder and you run a mod, the mod will override any changes you made to the base game...  (And you really don't want to be messing with the core game files anyway...)

The best thing to do is create a mod and call it smaller fleet or something.  You can do this by going into you mod folder for the version of the game you are playing and creating a folder with whatever name you felt like calling it.

Once you are inside of that folder, create another one called GameInfo

Go into that folder...

Copy and paste your gameplay.constants file into that folder so that whatever changes you make will be in mod form and not affecting your core game files.

Find the Section:
    fleetSupplyData-Small
        fleetSupplyScalar 0.75
    fleetSupplyData-Normal
        fleetSupplyScalar 1.0
    fleetSupplyData-Large
        fleetSupplyScalar 1.25

and change the values there.

Start up your game and go to options from the main menu, and to mods from the sub menu.  Enable your mod and click apply at the bottom.  After a second or two you should be able to navigate through the menus again so you can start up a game and try out the new settings.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Yea I was playing a mod and i changed it in the mod....I can do it with all other Mods but DS. I just dont like the size in this Mod lags after playing... EZ fix, im playing a diff Mod now... to hard 2 change what i want in that mod... Thanks Stant123 will give that a go sometime this weekend.