[Solved] Changing research/tech times

**Seraph07** · June 12, 2009, 11:29 PM

Is their a particular way to change research and construction times ? I tried doubling the existing ones and now I get CTD. Id like to make the contruction times a bit longer, and the research of the higher tier techs MUCH higher.

**l33tl4m3r** · June 13, 2009, 12:16 AM

Originally Posted by Seraph07

Is their a particular way to change research and construction times ? I tried doubling the existing ones and now I get CTD. Id like to make the contruction times a bit longer, and the research of the higher tier techs MUCH higher.

Which DB tables are you editing?

Technologies and Building Levels db tables should both be what you are looking for!

**Seraph07** · June 13, 2009, 12:24 AM

Oh god , what the hell did I do? I was only enjoying the best campaign of my life. I reinstalled APE and then the Beta version, then fired it up. I noticed sepoys avaiable in London, regiments of 40. Thats a conflict with the faction specific drum and fife. Now I can't figure out what order I loaded it in, and I keep getting CTD'S.
I was editing proper tech's, had no problems whatsoever. Made the changes and now my campaign is over.

Okay I figure it out, only took me an hour. The version of APE i had backed up,start pos, plus the order I was loading mods was conflicting w/ the unit DB or something. I just kept pressing buttons untill it worked.

**l33tl4m3r** · June 13, 2009, 01:20 AM

Did you get your desired results?

**Seraph07** · June 13, 2009, 01:30 AM

Negative, whenever I change the values I get CTD. I double everything. Any advice?

**l33tl4m3r** · June 13, 2009, 01:38 AM

Originally Posted by Seraph07

Negative, whenever I change the values I get CTD. I double everything. Any advice?

In the proper_technologies table you are doubling the research points?

**Seraph07** · June 13, 2009, 01:43 AM

Yeah, and it's killing me. I back it up and for some reason I keep getting ctd's, though im sure it has to do with the mods im using. I don't know why, but it's having an aneurism over the faction specific drummer-battle march.

**alpaca** · June 13, 2009, 06:15 AM

What might be happening is that you make some illegal changes and the game can't read the pack anymore and therefore everything in it is dropped. Then, when something else tries to refer to it, the game crashes.

**Seraph07** · June 13, 2009, 08:02 AM

Okay well last time i just took the number of research points, and doubled it. CTD'd, and when I copied over w/ my backup, corrupted a few of the saves. Is there some formula for total points, like it gets all pissy if your tree isn't balanced?

**l33tl4m3r** · June 13, 2009, 01:21 PM

Originally Posted by Seraph07

Okay well last time i just took the number of research points, and doubled it. CTD'd, and when I copied over w/ my backup, corrupted a few of the saves. Is there some formula for total points, like it gets all pissy if your tree isn't balanced?

That is very possible -- and I don't know if there is a ceiling on the number of points either.

Try increasing them first in multiples of 7 (the original base amount for a school research points.)

Then try increasing this multiplied value. 7 to 14, 14 to 28, etc.

**Seraph07** · June 13, 2009, 02:03 PM

Hey I got it, I was putting the values in carelessly. I guess if a tech is in the wrong tier, or doesn't sink up w/ the other one it causes an error. Thanks for the assist