The simpliest way to fix that is to go in you game save file, and seek fleet point, I always put it at 1000 so I never get an issue having huge fleet.
In the save file, its normally after your credit amount, or around it.
You know, I don't know why that didn't occur to me to suggest this :) Sure beats editing fleet point costs all over the place.
Just search for<maxFleetPoints>100.0</maxFleetPoints>and replace 100 with whatever you like. Note: it gets reset if you lose your fleet and respawn.
If 100 is max with skills implemented then i hope the AI follows the same rules, those hegemony fleets with 5 or 6 onslaughts and a dozen other vessels would be impossible to defeat.Yea I feel as if some of those fleets aren't supposed to be beaten. They are supposed to be threatening and they are supposed to kill you if you engage them. It keeps the game difficult and dangerous. If you aren't friendly with the Hegemony or the Tri-tach and you go deep into their territory you are taking a huge risk.
A Hyperion (player) and 3 Paragons w/ Tach-Lances as fire support can take on the Hegemony Def Fleets pretty well with minimal losses, if any (and I mean crew). I take along an Atlas for the cargo space. Need it for the supplies to feed the fleet (it's slow and hungary) and he loot I get for the fight. Only 97 FP. Now, getting those 3 Paragons and 12 Tach-Lances is another matter ::)
Does anyone know how this could be done on a Mac? I've had a look under the saves, but all I could find was Campaign.xml and Descriptor.xml
Opening these two files has basically lead to a dead end.
Using TextEdit (basically the Mac equivalent to Notepad) to open Campaign.xml works too. Just search for
<maxFleetPoints>100.0</maxFleetPoints>
using the search function and replace the number with whatever you want, like the post directly below the OP said.
It was at 500 already (even though my fleet only had 100 max fleet points). When I tried to change it to 1000, nothing happened. Help?
The line you're looking for will be followed by something like this:
<maxFleetPoints>100.0</maxFleetPoints>
<fleetPointsUsed>95.0</fleetPointsUsed>
except the 95.0 will be replaced with whatever the current FP value of your fleet is. It's the only instance of <maxFleetPoints>100.0</maxFleetPoints> to be followed by <fleetPointsUsed>#</fleetPointsUsed>. And I mean the only instance of that with 100.0 between the <maxFleetPoints></maxFleetPoints>. There are many other npc fleets with 500.0 between the <maxFleetPoints></maxFleetPoints> that are followed by the <fleetPointsUsed>#</fleetPointsUsed> line.
Also, the value between <maxFleetPoints></maxFleetPoints> for the line you're looking for will always be 100.0 unless you change it. I recommend not changing it to 500.0 because that's the value most of the npc fleets use. Make it something weird, like 357.
The value you want to change appears to be the last instance of <maxFleetPoints>#</maxFleetPoints> in the save file, so that should help you find it if you search in reverse.It was at 500 already (even though my fleet only had 100 max fleet points). When I tried to change it to 1000, nothing happened. Help?
That's because you changed the max FP of one of the npc fleets. The save file keeps track of the status and position of all the npc fleets, not just your own.