Talk:Utilities (Apocalypse)

Midnight Editor: X-Com Apocalypse

Filename: mexcomap.zip
Filesize:147kB
Author: Marcin Wichary
Version: 06.2a (internal v1.01)
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Versions

Two version were common, both named mexcomap.zip

1. version 0.6, internal version 0.92, exe dated 1997-08-04 (size: 228,768), zip size 130,305 bytes.

which has basic functionality but appears more stable than

2. version 0.62a, internal version 1.01, exe dated 1997-09-09  (size: 382,976), zip size 152,454 bytes.

this version allows more options, including changing the score and weeks-elapsed.

Notes

It has been 25years since v0.6.

Your operating system may not like either of these files. Try these:
WinXP-SP3
Extract to Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents.
1. Alt-Tab to desktop.
2. Copy over your savegame into My Documents.
3. Run MEXCOMAP.EXE, find your savegame here, not in the game folder.
4. Edit, then save. Ignore error messages, if any.
5. Copy edited savegame back to over Savegame folder.
6. Alt-Enter to maximise screen if it became a 640x480 window
6. Reload the save.
7. Check all your labs for unassigned personel.

If mexcomap.exe is located somewhere other than My Documents, the program may fail to open the selected savegame.

Other Windows versions may work similar (not tested) since a similar My Documents folder appears to be common.

Mexcomap - Unofficial Manual - Errata

Cautions

• Savegames edited by other programs which changes research time-to-complete requirements will confuse this savegame editor and reset all projects to unresearched!
• Ammunition quantitys will be calculated from default original values.
  

Relations
If an organsisation deems civilians to be hostile, they will be engaged in (one-sided) combat if present on the battlescape which may distract anyone currently hostile to X-Com. (ie: aliens and security will kill off civilians)

• Friendly-Neutral-Hostile relationships between organisations will be carried over from other editors if thay have been changed. These relations settings for civilians will be reset to neutral always at the start of a new game hence, they do not carry over.
• Civilians set to hostile can only work when editing a savegame.
• To do Hostile Civilians using Mexcomap:
  • Organizations Tab.
  • Select "Civilian"' in the lower selector box. X-Com and Civilians are present now in both boxes.
  • Click "Hostile". All sliders move to left side.
  • Click lower left button "Second->First to Second->All". Civilians are hostile to all now. Do not click the other button directly above!
  • Click "Neutral" button. Civilians are now not hostile to X-Com.
  • Press the "Save" button.
    

What this has just achieved is that -everyone- except X-Com, hates civilians and will now actively hunt them done and kill them all. It has just made future battlescape missions easier if civilians are present!

Explainations

• Update Save Time = forces the weeks elapsed to this number, based on Tech Level. This will match UFO types to the week in which they normally appear, aslisted here and (re)set the equipment level of building security and base invaders.

Errors

General Tab

• Finish construction of facilities may crash the game.
• Dig More Corridors may visually corrupt a Base Defence mission.
  

Facilities Tab

• Changing the build-days-needed to something shorter when the same type is under construction within your base may crash the game.
  

Stores Tab

• Ammuntion quantity per magazine/clip is calculated using original values.

eg: a unedited Law Pistol Clip = 16rounds. Different editor earlier changed this 24rounds. To give your stores 100 clips of this 24round ammo:

{(New Clip Capacity ÷ Original Clip Capacity) × Stores New Quantity} = Stores Clip-Quantity Number

using the numbers above:

{(24 ÷ 16) × 100} = 150

To get 100 clips of 24round Law Pistol ammo, you must enter 150 into the Quantity box.

Research Tab

• Finished tick-box if 'ticked' may not allow continued research into further topics. To remove the error, untick box then set slider to 99% for any or all projects you want to finish quickly (even if they don't appear yet).
  

Score Tab

• Damage To City should not be set to a positive number. The game gets confused and you may lose all funding.
  

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