There was a forum post about dropping the mercenaries where it was talked about editing out the merc ships in the EXP1_MercenaryDefs.xml file. I well.... deleted the code in that file and had some good games with no merc ships yet still retained the other DLC components. Now it seems GC3 does some sort of file integrity check and my modified EXP1_MercenaryDefs.xml file is rejected.
Is there maybe another way to do this? perhaps make the merc market starbase have a 0% chance of spawning? I thought about jacking up the prices to an extraordinary amount but the idea above I think is better. Anyway I could not find an XML file that controls how, where, or when the merc market appears. Any thoughts?
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