Battle length

[Callahan]

Greetings !

I intended to play around a bit with the length of tactical battles, but found it difficult to locate this value in the exe.
Does anyone know where the value of battle length in turns can be modified ?
Preferably in ASCII position, I´m not so well with Assembler offsets.

Thanks in advance
Callahan

[xDx]

edit: removed for incorrect information

[thunderchero]

I am not sure where it is located as well. But I think it was reported once that there is a max amount of turns (25 iirc)

thunderchero

[Spocks-cuddly-tribble]

I intended to play around a bit with the length of tactical battles, but found it difficult to locate this value in the exe.
Does anyone know where the value of battle length in turns can be modified ?

IIRC the default limit for battles is 50 tactical turns.

Try simultaneous changing of the following three values (two of them are 1 byte signed = 127 / 0x7F max):

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-auto battle:
005283EC                 cmp     ecx, 32h    // at 0x1277EE

-tactical combat (& auto battle ?)
004724BD                 cmp     eax, 32h      // at 0x718BF
0047280C                 cmp     ds:597884, 32h   // at 0x71C12

Also here is how to implement your system attack troup transport suggestion:
viewtopic.php?p=25733&sid=c8b0951e4e894 ... c77#p25733

[Callahan]

Thanks, Spocks-cuddly-tribble !

That seems to work just excellent for combat length adjustment !

Also many thanks for the system attack implementation.
I´m quite eager to test this ASAP.

Greetings
Callahan

[Callahan]

Greetings !

I did some testing with battles of only a few turns ( 4 to 6 mainly ) and I found the results quite interesting.
As most battles do now take several game turns, it is possible to bring in reinforcements into ongoing battles.
It is now also possible to invade a system even with superior hostile forces present.
This way even an inferior opponent can be a threat.
Yet the AI does not know this.

Therefore I would now like to increase AI aggressiveness during a war.
Currently, the AI is quite defensive if of inferior power, making them passive, sitting ducks even when I raid or bomb one of their systems.

Is there a way to make the AI attack my systems as well as my ships in their space all the time ?

[Flocke]

sounds like a really interesting feature, but changing AI behavior is not known yet