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  1. Just a little addition regarding the values of CRAFT.DAT for incoming Retaliation Battleships. Bytes 34-35 appear as 8-0 Bytes 40-41 appear as 181-9
  2. Again, thanks for the information. A question, how does ZONAL.DAT affect "the odds of a mission appearing". In all my games, I've never seen the contents of ZONAL.DAT be changed by the games, no matter how many UFOs I shoot down or how many complete their missions successfully. Also, the number of aliens generated by the game for the base defense seems to correspond with the UFO on a the retaliation mission. Changing the Battleship into a Small Scout still triggers the base mission on arrival, but only one alien was generated by the game, and killing him ended the mission.
  3. Ah, thanks for the help. In my current save, I've got an Ethereal Battleship heading for a base attack on an Europe base, and the modified record is the fifth one, with values 1, 0, 0, 0. (this being my starting base). Checking the wiki, it seems like the records are in the order specified by ZONAL.DAT. More notably, the month-long retaliation "campaign" by the UFOs does not seem to be divided into "find base" or "attack discovered base" types. In a save at the end of the previous month, XBASES.DAT was completely unmodified, and yet the battleship knew where to go. In an alternate timeline where I shot down the scouts, the Battleship still showed up on a retaliation mission, but zoomed around Europe like the scouts, presumably trying to find the base. However, simply modifying the record for a base attack does not seem to work, there must be a retaliation "campaign" already in progress for the battleship to know where the base is. It seems that when the battleship arrives, XBASES.DAT tells it where to go (or not), and the scouts change XBASES.DAT when they discover the base.
  4. Hey, does anyone know how to get the aliens to attack an X-COM base? Modifying CRAFT.DAT to produce a Retaliation Scout going for the X-COM base doesn't seem to work, and I don't know how XBASES.DAT is supposed to work either.
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