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.