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Better Invasion Experience

Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2017

Hi everybody,

since I (and a lot of others) am very unhappy with the current invasion mechanics I used my christmas vacation to play around a bit with InvasionStyleDefs.xml and fiddled with the numbers so that invasion is not so easy anymore (tested with conventional and information warfare; but the rest should go in the same direction).

I don't want to bother with creating an account on Nexus or something like that, so here is just the changed content of said file for everybody who is interested:

Code: xml
  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?>
  2. <InvasionStyleList
  3. xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  4. xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../Schema/InvasionStyleDefs.xsd">
  6.   <InvasionStyle>
  7.         <InternalName>ConventionalWarfare</InternalName>
  8.     <Title>CONVENTIONAL_WARFARE_TITLE</Title>
  9.     <Description>CONVENTIONAL_WARFARE_DESCRIPTION</Description>
  10.     <ImmunityStat>IsImmuneToInvasion0</ImmunityStat>
  11.     <ImmunityDescription>IsImmuneToInvasion0_Label</ImmunityDescription>
  13.     <Cost>0</Cost>    
  14.     <DefenseMod>0.0</DefenseMod>
  15.     <ResistanceMod>0.0</ResistanceMod>
  16.     <SoldieringMod>0.0</SoldieringMod>
  17.     <InvaderCasualtyMin>0.01</InvaderCasualtyMin>
  18.     <InvaderCasualtyMax>1.0</InvaderCasualtyMax>
  19.     <DefenderCasualtyMin>0.4</DefenderCasualtyMin>
  20.     <DefenderCasualtyMax>1.0</DefenderCasualtyMax>
  21.     <ImprovementDamageThreshold>0.95</ImprovementDamageThreshold>
  22.     <SurfaceDamageThreshold>0.99</SurfaceDamageThreshold>
  23.   </InvasionStyle>
  25.   <InvasionStyle>
  26.     <InternalName>InformationWarfare</InternalName>
  27.     <Title>INFORMATION_WARFARE_TITLE</Title>
  28.     <Description>INFORMATION_WARFARE_DESCRIPTION</Description>
  29.     <Prerequ>
  30.       <Techs>
  31.         <Option>InvasionOptimization2</Option>
  32.       </Techs>
  33.     </Prerequ>
  34.     <ImmunityStat>IsImmuneToInvasion1</ImmunityStat>
  35.     <ImmunityDescription>IsImmuneToInvasion1_Label</ImmunityDescription>
  36.     <Cost>1000</Cost>
  38.     <DefenseMod>-0.25</DefenseMod>
  39.     <ResistanceMod>-0.25</ResistanceMod>
  40.     <SoldieringMod>0.0</SoldieringMod>
  41.     <InvaderCasualtyMin>0.01</InvaderCasualtyMin>
  42.     <InvaderCasualtyMax>0.5</InvaderCasualtyMax>
  43.     <DefenderCasualtyMin>0.1</DefenderCasualtyMin>
  44.     <DefenderCasualtyMax>0.25</DefenderCasualtyMax>
  45.     <ImprovementDamageThreshold>1.0</ImprovementDamageThreshold>
  46.     <SurfaceDamageThreshold>1.0</SurfaceDamageThreshold>
  47.   </InvasionStyle>
  49.   <InvasionStyle>
  50.     <InternalName>BiologicalWarfare</InternalName>
  51.     <Title>BIOLOGICAL_WARFARE_TITLE</Title>
  52.     <Description>BIOLOGICAL_WARFARE_DESCRIPTION</Description>
  53.     <Prerequ>
  54.       <Techs>
  55.         <Option>InvasionOptimization3</Option>
  56.       </Techs>
  57.     </Prerequ>
  58.     <ImmunityStat>IsImmuneToInvasion2</ImmunityStat>
  59.     <ImmunityDescription>IsImmuneToInvasion2_Label</ImmunityDescription>
  60.     <Cost>500</Cost>
  62.     <DefenseMod>-0.5</DefenseMod>
  63.     <ResistanceMod>0.0</ResistanceMod>
  64.     <SoldieringMod>0.0</SoldieringMod>
  65.     <InvaderCasualtyMin>0.01</InvaderCasualtyMin>
  66.     <InvaderCasualtyMax>0.75</InvaderCasualtyMax>
  67.     <DefenderCasualtyMin>0.9</DefenderCasualtyMin>
  68.     <DefenderCasualtyMax>1.0</DefenderCasualtyMax>
  69.     <ImprovementDamageThreshold>1.0</ImprovementDamageThreshold>
  70.     <SurfaceDamageThreshold>1.0</SurfaceDamageThreshold>
  71.   </InvasionStyle>
  73.   <InvasionStyle>
  74.     <InternalName>PlanetaryBombardment</InternalName>
  75.     <Title>PLANETARY_BOMBARDMENT_TITLE</Title>
  76.     <Description>PLANETARY_BOMBARDMENT_DESCRIPTION</Description>
  77.     <Prerequ>
  78.       <Techs>
  79.         <Option>InvasionOptimization1</Option>
  80.       </Techs>
  81.     </Prerequ>
  82.     <ImmunityStat>IsImmuneToInvasion3</ImmunityStat>
  83.     <ImmunityDescription>IsImmuneToInvasion3_Label</ImmunityDescription>
  84.     <Cost>500</Cost>
  86.     <DefenseMod>-0.0</DefenseMod>
  87.     <ResistanceMod>-0.5</ResistanceMod>
  88.     <SoldieringMod>0.0</SoldieringMod>
  89.     <InvaderCasualtyMin>0.01</InvaderCasualtyMin>
  90.     <InvaderCasualtyMax>0.75</InvaderCasualtyMax>
  91.     <DefenderCasualtyMin>0.7</DefenderCasualtyMin>
  92.     <DefenderCasualtyMax>1.0</DefenderCasualtyMax>
  93.     <ImprovementDamageThreshold>0.85</ImprovementDamageThreshold>
  94.     <SurfaceDamageThreshold>0.95</SurfaceDamageThreshold>
  96.     <Trigger>
  97.       <OnEvent>OnConquerPlanet</OnEvent>
  98.       <Target>
  99.         <TargetType>Colony</TargetType>
  100.       </Target>
  101.       <PerformAction>
  102.         <Action>StatusEffect</Action>
  103.         <StringParam>PlanetConqueredStatus_Bombardment</StringParam>
  104.       </PerformAction>
  105.     </Trigger>
  106.     
  107.   </InvasionStyle>
  109.   <InvasionStyle>
  110.     <InternalName>TidalDisruption</InternalName>
  111.     <Title>TIDAL_DISRUPTION_TITLE</Title>
  112.     <Description>TIDAL_DISRUPTION_DESCRIPTION</Description>
  113.     <Prerequ>
  114.       <Techs>
  115.         <Option>GravitationalFocus1</Option>
  116.       </Techs>
  117.     </Prerequ>
  118.     <ImmunityStat>IsImmuneToInvasion4</ImmunityStat>
  119.     <ImmunityDescription>IsImmuneToInvasion4_Label</ImmunityDescription>
  120.     <Cost>1500</Cost>
  122.     <DefenseMod>-0.5</DefenseMod>
  123.     <ResistanceMod>-0.25</ResistanceMod>
  124.     <SoldieringMod>0.0</SoldieringMod>
  125.     <InvaderCasualtyMin>0.01</InvaderCasualtyMin>
  126.     <InvaderCasualtyMax>0.7</InvaderCasualtyMax>
  127.     <DefenderCasualtyMin>0.7</DefenderCasualtyMin>
  128.     <DefenderCasualtyMax>1.0</DefenderCasualtyMax>
  129.     <ImprovementDamageThreshold>0.85</ImprovementDamageThreshold>
  130.     <SurfaceDamageThreshold>0.95</SurfaceDamageThreshold>
  131.   </InvasionStyle>
  133.   <InvasionStyle>
  134.     <InternalName>CoreDetonation</InternalName>
  135.     <Title>CORE_DETONATION_TITLE</Title>
  136.     <Description>CORE_DETONATION_DESCRIPTION</Description>
  137.     <Prerequ>
  138.       <Techs>
  139.         <Option>GravitationalFocus2</Option>
  140.       </Techs>
  141.     </Prerequ>
  142.     <ImmunityStat>IsImmuneToInvasion5</ImmunityStat>
  143.     <ImmunityDescription>IsImmuneToInvasion5_Label</ImmunityDescription>
  144.     <Cost>1000</Cost>
  146.     <DefenseMod>-0.5</DefenseMod>
  147.     <ResistanceMod>-0.5</ResistanceMod>
  148.     <SoldieringMod>0.0</SoldieringMod>
  149.     <InvaderCasualtyMin>0.01</InvaderCasualtyMin>
  150.     <InvaderCasualtyMax>0.6</InvaderCasualtyMax>
  151.     <DefenderCasualtyMin>0.7</DefenderCasualtyMin>
  152.     <DefenderCasualtyMax>1.0</DefenderCasualtyMax>
  153.     <ImprovementDamageThreshold>0.85</ImprovementDamageThreshold>
  154.     <SurfaceDamageThreshold>0.95</SurfaceDamageThreshold>
  155.   </InvasionStyle>
  157. </InvasionStyleList>