Also posted on steam (227Steam over there)
I wanted longer paced games and the tech/manu sliders are limited even when you adjust them in the XML. I decided to add a multiplier to all the <ResearchCost>X</ResearchCost> values in MasterTechDefs.xml and while a global replace could add a 10x/100x etc value I wanted more fine adjustments and each patch updating the core required I do it again.
Since I hacked thru it, I thought I would share. The below shows adding a 1.5X modifier, and you can change it by altering the number in line 15 (1.5)
I recommend Notepad++ and the XML tools plugin, but your fav XML whatever should do the transforms.
example from MasterTechDefs.xml before
<FlavorDescription>Tech_AntiMatterPowerPlants_FlavorText_Description</FlavorDescription>
<ColorDef>TechOrange</ColorDef>
<Icon>Icon_Production.png</Icon>
<Image>event_slum_Small.png</Image>
<Rarity>Uncommon</Rarity>
<ResearchCost>180</ResearchCost>
example from MasterTechDefs.xml after
<FlavorDescription>Tech_AntiMatterPowerPlants_FlavorText_Description</FlavorDescription>
<ColorDef>TechOrange</ColorDef>
<Icon>Icon_Production.png</Icon>
<Image>event_slum_Small.png</Image>
<Rarity>Uncommon</Rarity>
<ResearchCost>270</ResearchCost>
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Code: xml
- <!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?--></p><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
- <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
-
- <!-- Identity transform -->
- <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
- <xsl:copy>
- <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
- </xsl:copy>
- </xsl:template>
-
- <!-- Template to transform ResearchCost element -->
- <xsl:template match="ResearchCost">
- <xsl:copy>
- <xsl:value-of select="format-number(., '0.##') * 1.5"/>
- </xsl:copy>
- </xsl:template>
-
- </xsl:stylesheet>
- <!-- Identity transform --> <!-- Template to transform ResearchCost element -->
