Smaller Enemy Ship Fleet Size

[Blaze Devlin]

It happens quite often in GOF 2.0Mod Beta Patch Ver. 1.4 that an enemy ship fleet consisting of 4 merchant ships and 4 military ships for instance encounters my ships on the World Map. This equals to a total of 8 enemy ships. It could be of course smaller, for instance 3 and 3 or 2 and 2 or so. But the point is, that I suffering often an "ENGINE" crash after mowing to Sea Mode.

My idea is to reduce the enemy ship fleets to lets say a total of 6 ships. To do so, I guess I must modify some of the files. Can anybody tell me please if it is possible to do it? And if yes, how please?

Thanks a lot and happy boarding!!

 

[Pieter Boelen]

If this is anywhere like PotC, look at PROGRAM\Encounters\Encounters_init.c

 

[Hylie Pistof]

How many ships do you have? As I recall the enemy fleet size and type is set to be just a bit better than yours.

 

[Blaze Devlin]

I got 4 ships at this time in action (including my flagship) as you can see at the picture above. Plus another 4 ships stored at the port control.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

It is adjustable. Have you looked in the files Pieter mentioned? That looks like the place to adjust things, although I do not understand what the numbers mean.

Your only other alternative is to get more powerful hardware that can handle the heavy loads all of those class 1 and 2 ships put on the engine.

 

[Blaze Devlin]

Yes. I already modified the file Pieter mentioned earlier. I did the following at the top of the file:

void InitEncounters()
{
    int i;
    ref rEnc;

    for (i=0; i<MAX_ENCOUNTER_TYPES; i++)
    {
        makeref(rEnc, EncountersTypes[i]);
        rEnc.Index = i;
        rEnc.Chance = 100;
        rEnc.Skip = false;
        rEnc.MinRank = 1;
        rEnc.MaxRank = 1000;
        rEnc.Merchant.ShipsMin = 0;        rEnc.Merchant.ShipsMax = 3;
        rEnc.War.ShipsMin = 0;            rEnc.War.ShipsMax = 3;
        rEnc.Type = ENCOUNTER_TRADE;

At the line "rEnc.Merchant.ShipsMax" and "rEnc.War.ShipsMax" I changed the values from 0 to 3. So as far I understand it should generate ONLY a max. of 3 merchant ships and 3 war ships.
In addition to that I modified the most of the specific encounter types. Here is an example for the case "Fleet":

makeref(rEnc, EncountersTypes[ENCOUNTER_TYPE_FLEET]);
    rEnc.Type = ENCOUNTER_WAR;
    rEnc.MaxRank = 1000;
    rEnc.Chance = 50;
    rEnc.worldMapShip = "manowar";
    Enc_ExcludeNation(rEnc, PIRATE);

    if(!REALISTIC_SHIP_ENCOUNTERS) // = If Realistic Ship Encounters is NOT enabled
    {
        rEnc.MinRank = 36;
    Enc_AddShips(rEnc, "War", 3, 3);
    Enc_AddClasses(rEnc, 18, 0, 0, 1, 4);
    Enc_AddClasses(rEnc, 1000,0, 0, 1, 4);

    }
               else // = If Realistic Ship Encounters IS enabled
        {
    rEnc.MinRank = 10;
    Enc_AddShips(rEnc, "War", 1, 5);
    Enc_AddClasses(rEnc, 8, 0, 0, 1, 7);
    Enc_AddClasses(rEnc, 1000,0, 0, 1, 7);
    }

Now if you look at the lines "Enc_AddShips" you see the numbers 3, 3 at the top and 1, 5 at the bottom. I reduced those values (before it was up to 3, 6 or so). But I`m not sure if it means 3 + 3 = 6 and 1 + 5 = 6? Or do the numbers not belonging together? Because that would be exactly what I want to do, that no more than 6 enemy ships show up at sea mode!

For example I having a total of 4 ships and it happens often that the enemy ships fleet consists of 8 ships. That is the DOUBLE size of my own fleet in other words! But it would be interesting to know if there is a multiplying factor that says: enemy ship fleet = player ship fleet x 2 or something like this? Since now I couldn`t find it! Does anybody having a tip or an idea to share with me?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Enc_AddShips(rEnc, "War", 1, 5);
^ That line means that the encounter contains between 1 and 5 warships; the actual amount should be randomly chosen.
As the maximum is 5, that exceeds the player fleet of 4 ships. If you want to prevent that, lower that second number.
New game probably required.