ACTS.DAT

acts.dat

contains information which acts with which priority in respective zones aliens are going to try. Each of the twelve zonzes has seven possilbe acts which sums up to a total of 84 bytes.

Each month two acts (beginner level) are started by aliens and their priority in [acts.dat] is set to zero. If all acts of a zone are tried, the zone is set to zero priority. This would give you about five years worth of alien acts.

The acts are:

offset	act		
0	Research 	
1	Harvest 	*
2	Abduction 	*
3	Infiltration 	*
4	Base 		
5	Terror 		**
6	Retaliation	***

* These are not tried in some zones as they are not realistic, e.g. abduction in Antarctic.

** One act of terror is tried every month, priority is not used.

*** Retaliation is triggered by unsuccesful acts, priority is not used.

The total file might be like this:

                 Re Ha Ab In Ba Tr Re
NAme    0000000: 0e 10 14 14 14 00 00
Arctis  0000007: 19 00 00 00 23 00 00
Antarc  000000e: 19 00 00 00 23 00 00
SAme    0000015: 0a 18 0c 12 14 00 00
Euro    000001c: 0a 0a 0f 14 06 00 00
NAfr    0000023: 08 08 08 08 13 00 00
SAfr    000002a: 07 08 08 08 09 00 00
ZAs     0000031: 05 05 06 0a 08 00 00
SEAs    0000038: 08 0d 15 0d 08 00 00
Sibir   000003f: 06 00 04 00 09 00 00
Austra  0000046: 0f 0b 04 08 16 00 00
Pacific 000004d: 0f 00 00 00 1c 00 00

Supply, which is requested by the alien base, is not part of acts.dat.