MONEY: A lot of cash from broken slots

[ragdoller2010]

I am trying to find a place to mod cash which is dropped by breaking machines to a large sum.
However i could find nowhere. i try to download ubitri's mod but i do not want to replace my old save (because i mod some already)

Can any experts tell me how to mod in some txt file???
Thx a lot

[tommah]

good questions and a surprising very easy answer/mod that you would be able to do yourself.

1.Unpack datafile.big
2. open items.txt
3. search for "cmoneyitem"

there's about 6 cmoneyitem entries and these are the values for the money you pick up or win with gambling.

for example, if you want TONS of money all you have to do is change the "Amount" number underneath "cMoneyItem OneHundredDollars" to say.... 10,000,000. Now every time you pick up $100 laying on the floor, you will instead get $10,000,000.

Hope this helps!

[ragdoller2010]

Oh god thx a lot man

[tommah]

absolutely, have fun.... I had to do the exact same thing cause I had a lvl 50 and got a corrupt saved game.

... also had to mod PP so that I got 50 levels in one kill.... mwuhahaha

[anno1404]

Ubiquitous found a way to get chuck to loose money:

In items.txt find cMoneyItem OneHundredDollars

change Amount = "100" to Amount = "-10000"

In the area file (example: fortune_exterior.txt) or in missions.txt spawn a hundred dollar stack.

Chuck can actually end up with negative amounts of money.

Your save file has 40,000K Now you drop 1 Stack of cash on Chuck worth -100,000 (it will show -60,000 but he will actually have ZERO) Now drop a second stack on the player worth +1. chuck is back to $1

This means you can:

a) create a stack of money worth some huge amount, i.e. negative 1 billion or (chuck has to walk over or money has to drop on him)
b) create a mission rule at beginning of game worth some huge amount, i.e. negative 1 billion (better)

This will make Chuck go down to Zero (but it shows a negative) if he had less that $500,000 in a previous game.

This allows the modder to make sure every person starts the game at the same amount = 0

Missions.txt example one USE THIS ONE:


cMissionDefinition Tutorial1 //INFINITY MODE START LOCATION
{
Duration = "30000"
ExplicitStart = "true"
LevelToStartAtIfDebuggingMission = "BIKETUTORIAL"
ShowInDebugMenu = "true"
   cMissionLevelReady deadlyfriends
   {
   LevelName = "LEVEL_BIKETUTORIAL" //required line for survivor to spawn
cMissionSpawnNPC SpawnKatey
{
NPCName = "cast_katey"
Rotation = "15"
SpawnPoint = "-76, 8.7, -64"
WithProp = "BowieKnife"
}
cMissionSetChuckState takeMoney1
{
ChuckState = "9"
Value = "-500000000"
}
cMissionSetChuckState onedollar
{
ChuckState = "9"
Value = "1"
}
}
   }
}


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Items.txt example DON'T USE, here only to explain how it could be done differently:

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cMoneyItem OneHundredDollars
{
Amount = "100"
AssetFilename = "data/models/interactables/dollarstack"
AudioActionBits = "16"
AudioFilename = "fx_onehundreddollars"
AudioItemName = "OneHundredDollars"
AudioUnloadDeferralTime = "2.0"
CollidableQuality = "0"
CollisionAudioDissipationFactor = "0.01"
CollisionBits = "WORLDCOLLISIONFILTER_CAMERA_TRANSPARENCY"
CollisionType = "3"
DisplayName = "50001"
DR2 = "true"
DR2PRO = "true"
InteractDistance = ".95"
LoadDistance = "25"
MergedFileNotUsed = "true"
Restitution = "0.05"
RestrictedByRegion = "false"
Source = "0"
UnlimitedDurability = "true"
Weight = "5"
}

Changed to:

cMoneyItem nomoney
{
Amount = "-1000000000"
AssetFilename = "data/models/interactables/dollarstack"
AudioActionBits = "16"
AudioFilename = "fx_onehundreddollars"
AudioItemName = "OneHundredDollars"
AudioUnloadDeferralTime = "2.0"
CollidableQuality = "0"
CollisionAudioDissipationFactor = "0.01"
CollisionBits = "WORLDCOLLISIONFILTER_CAMERA_TRANSPARENCY"
CollisionType = "3"
DisplayName = "50001"
DR2 = "true"
DR2PRO = "true"
InteractDistance = ".95"
LoadDistance = "25"
MergedFileNotUsed = "true"
Restitution = "0.05"
RestrictedByRegion = "false"
Source = "0"
UnlimitedDurability = "true"
Weight = "5"
}

In missions.txt:

cItemPlacement  nomoney // money to negative dollars drops on chuck
{
ItemName = "nomoney"
Location = "-72.2, -9.4, -64.9"
IsStatc = ""
}
cItemPlacement OneHundredDollars  
{
ItemName = "OneHundredDollars"
Location = "-72.2, 2, -64.9"
IsStatc = ""
}


Immediate change:

I want to try -500K stack and right on top of that a $1 stack to see if it will immediately change

If there is an immediate change back to 1 then we can set a negative one billion dollar stack and a $1 above it.

It shows money going down but once at $1 no more sound.

negative 1 billion dollars

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[moloko]

If we add this and force Lv 0 for Infinity Mode, people won't make it past the first couple hours.

[anno1404]

May 20, 2011 6:30:58 GMT -5 moloko said:

If we add this and force Lv 0 for Infinity Mode, people won't make it past the first couple hours.

not to worry, only the money will reduce not levels. Tom was adamant, and I think he is right and made some eloquent points, that most people will dislike and not play if we put them to level 1.

[moloko]

Agreed.