ALIEN.DAT

This file contains information on the activity of aliens in both countries and regions. The same format is used for XCOM.DAT only it obviously applies to XCOM activity in the area.

Structure

The format is rather tedious and the best line width is 124 bytes, which will cover an entire month of both Countries and Regions. There are a total of 12 months stored in this file. Each value is stored in 4 bytes in the usual low then high manner. It is presumed that they are signed and will go negative after FF FF FF 7F (0x7FFFFFFF in normal notation), but this has not been tested, nor should it be possible in the game normally.

The first record contains this month's information. The second last month's and so on.

These offsets were completely ripped from Hatfarm's website, with some rearrangement to aid look-up (hopefully)

Offset dec (hex)	Area Name		Offset dec (hex)	Area Name
0 (0x0)	USA		68 (0x44)	Arctic
4 (0x4)	Russia		72 (0x48)	Antarctica
8 (0x8)	UK		76 (0x4C)	South America
12 (0xC)	France		80 (0x50)	Europe
16 (0x10)	Germany		84 (0x54)	North Africa
20 (0x14)	Italy		88 (0x58)	Southern Africa
24 (0x18)	Spain		92 (0x5C)	Central Asia
28 (0x1C)	China		96 (0x60)	Southeast Asia
32 (0x20)	Japan		100 (0x64)	Siberia
36 (0x24)	India		104 (0x68)	Australasia
40 (0x28)	Brazil		108 (0x6C)	Pacific
44 (0x2C)	Australia		112 (0x70)	North Atlantic
48 (0x30)	Nigeria		116 (0x74)	South Atlantic
52 (0x34)	South Africa		120 (0x78)	Indian Ocean
56 (0x38)	Egypt

See Also

• DIPLOM.DAT - Contains Information on the Diplomatic status of countries
• Saved Game Files