UFO Limit per Continent

[Yzaxtol]

I have a very limited narrow view of modding at the moment so I don't really know what's possible or not, but with the introduction of some pretty good UFO combat mods, is it possible to switch the UFO limit from being a constatnt and change it to depend on how many continents you are currently watching?

 

I think the best thing would to start with a UFO limit of 2 with 1 extra for each extra continent you watch. To a grand total of 6. + abductions + terror

 

Otherwise as it stands now, watching multiple continents actually 'spreads' the work your interceptors need to do with it being rarer with every continent full of interceptors to ever have a ship in repair during UFO contacts.

[johnnylump]

That's not a bad thought. The function to do this in wouldbe XComStrategyGame.upk, class XGStrategyAI, function AIAddNewObjectives(). This sets the number of (non-abductor/non-terror mission-related) UFOs that randomly appear each month.

 

Question is whether there is a way to see how many countries or continents have satellites present; you'd have to look around and see if such a function exists. Then it becomes a matter of rescripting to fit in the function call and lots of lots of trial and error to get your rescript working.

 

Edit: It looks like the function at least knows what month it is, so you could have the number of UFOs increase by month (or every x months). Then it's up to the player to get satellites up by a certain time to spread out and manage the threat.

 

 

(Alternately, you could also turn on ShowUFOsOnMission in DGC.ini and turn off satelliltes' ability to prevent abductions. This will have a similar effect, as you'll see more UFOs overall as your satellite coverage goes up, but it's not exactly what you're after.)

Edited February 27, 2013 by johnnylump

[Yzaxtol]

Already done the UFO missions and satellite abductions. But i thought the amount of UFOs at the start was abit too much. Cheers for the help I'll see if I can reasonably change the settings somewhat and probably post UPK changes if i can manage it.