Difference between revisions of "ZONAL.DAT"

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contains information which zones with which priority aliens are going to attack. There are 12 zones. If a priority of a zone is zero, the zone will only get terror attacks. In editing too many zeros into the file I have often found that the game is considered lost. -[[User:Mkirchner|Mkirchner]]
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This file is a dynamic list of the chances that the aliens will conduct a mission in a particular zone. There are 12 zones. If a priority of a zone is zero, the zone will only get terror attacks.  
  
 
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  0xb Pacific (+Rest) 5
 
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It is unclear under what circumstances the contents of this file change.  The monthly assignment of new missions doesn't cause changes here.
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Once all these missions (research, harvest, abduction, infiltration, and base creation) have been preformed in a particular zone, the value for that zone in this file is set to zero.
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 09:48, 8 July 2014

zonal.dat

This file is a dynamic list of the chances that the aliens will conduct a mission in a particular zone. There are 12 zones. If a priority of a zone is zero, the zone will only get terror attacks.

offset	zone		priority
0	North America	18
1	Arctic		4
2	Antarctic	4
3	South America	10
4	Europe		16
5	North Africa	12
6	South Africa	8
7	Central Asia	12
8	Southeast Asia	15
9	Siberia		10
0xa	Australia	10
0xb	Pacific (+Rest)	5

Once all these missions (research, harvest, abduction, infiltration, and base creation) have been preformed in a particular zone, the value for that zone in this file is set to zero.

See Also

  • ACTS.DAT - Information on actions the aliens will be or are doing
  • ALIEN.DAT - Alien scores/activity for regions used in graphs
  • WORLD.DAT - Contains polygonal information on terrain, countries and areas as drawn on the Geoscape
  • Saved Game Files