MadMage Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Hello all, I'm looking to lower maintenance costs of aircraft, bases and personnel - where would I find these values in the .xml files? Much appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Msvknight Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Aircrafts- Aircraft.xml Base- building.xml and i think you can change Personnel in the gameconfig folder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kabill Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 A note on personnel - their maintenance cost is the same as their hiring cost and you can't separate the two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMage Posted August 23, 2014 Author Share Posted August 23, 2014 Interesting... I'd looked in the aircraft.xml file, but was unable to locate which line was maintenance costs. I'll take a closer look; much appreciated. The aircraft maintenance costs being as much as the aircraft was to buy is just silly... much of the game's difficulty seems to come from artificial scarcity of funding. High up-front costs are fine, but the maintenance costs get so high that your income trickles to a halt even if you've got only three bases... that's just a terrible way to manage the difficulty level. Ground combat is only difficult because I can't spend anything on my troops' gear, so I'm fighting androns with ballistic weapons while trying to invest in radars and aircraft. *gripe* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steelpoint Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 A note on personnel - their maintenance cost is the same as their hiring cost and you can't separate the two. Are you certain? Because when I look in the files I see that most Aircraft have a $100,000 maintenence/upkeep cost. Which seems independent of their purchase cost. Unless I'm missing something. @MadMage. You will want to look for the "upkeep" field. Its the 18th line (19th technically). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kabill Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Are you certain? Because when I look in the files I see that most Aircraft have a $100,000 maintenence/upkeep cost. Which seems independent of their purchase cost.Unless I'm missing something. Aircraft have separate maintenance costs, yes. But not personnel. (It's commented in gameconfig.xml) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steelpoint Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Ah, I misread. My mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMage Posted August 24, 2014 Author Share Posted August 24, 2014 I'm going to a try a game with all maintenance costs halved - I balanced personnel costs a bit by not entirely halving them, but making scientists and techs the same price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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