Purchase capital ship level question and Search within .entity files question.

Help please.

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I can't figure out which file the settings for how much purchasing a level and how long it takes to gain each level for a capital ship is in, I would like to edit these but I don’t know where to look.

Sadly windows won’t return any results when I try to search for text within one of the .entity files (guess .entity isn't supported) otherwise I would just search for the string BaseUpgradeTime 90.000000 and look through those files. If anyone has any type of decent free program that will search though .entity files it would be very helpful.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
That info is in the GamePlay.consist file, located in the GameInfo folder.
As i saw, the upgrade time cannot changed... you change the value in there, but the game will don't use it
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Windows Search (in XP at least, no idea about Vista) does allow you to search for text within files. You have to switch on advanced search in order to do so. I use it all the time to search a list of files with a common entry that needs to be edited. However, you may need to turn on a particular setting for this to work if you're wanting to search non-standard filetypes (like .entity files).

From the following Microsoft KB (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309173):

1. Click Start, and then click Search (or point to Search, and then click For Files or Folders).
2. Click Change preferences, and then click With Indexing Service (for faster local searches).
3. Click Change Indexing Service Settings (Advanced). Note that you do not have to turn on the Index service.
4. On the toolbar, click Show/Hide Console Tree.
5. In the left pane, right-click Indexing Service on Local Machine, and then click Properties.
6. On the Generation tab, click to select the Index files with unknown extensions check box, and then click OK.
7. Close the Indexing Service console.

Hope this helps!
Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Thank you Skyline_HUN I had never seen the Gameplay.constants file yet (was only editing .entity files)I actually managed to change the upgrade time, I set it to 2 seconds (PurchaseNextLevelTime 2) as a test and it does indeed purchase the level almost instantly.

Thank you so much maerlyn now my windows search does indeed search within .entity which is awesome :D I had been using windows search for finding files (A search for CAPITALSHIP_TECH to find all TEC Capital ship files for example) but soon realized that searching for "A word or phrase in the file" was turning up no results.

Thank you both for the help :)