ACTS.DAT

Contains information about which acts and with what priority in respective zones the aliens are going to try. Each of the twelve zones has seven possible 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 unsuccessful 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.

See Also

• MISSIONS.DAT - Information on the current UFO missions
• ALIEN.DAT - Graph information on alien activity in areas
• ZONAL.DAT - Aliens' priority for areas