Database Question or confirmation really

[Strela]

I'm possibly dipping my toe in to create some PzB scenarios while I wait for some of the PzC gold versions to be released yet. My concern is over the database. Was it designed to discourage people from editing the values? Changing the values would effect every scenario with those unit names......thus in order to use your own values for equipment in one scenario you design, a whole new equipment list with different names would have to be produced yes? And I'd need to provide the unit.dat for each nation altered in such a manner, yes?

Am I missing something?

I feel like i'm already starting to the miss the PzC editor :P



Atheory

Yes, you're right.

The data editor is what you're referring too and changing any values will impact all units in the game that use the same name.

You're right the only way to do it is to use new component names. That then breaks artwork and a myriad of other things.

The data structure in PzB is NOT the same as PzC though Xaver suggestions assume it is.

The only other way is to back up your unit.dat files in each nationality and replace the values with your desired values.

Essentially the game is not setup to allow simple modding of unit values.

David