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While it's not quite a trainer, there are ways to modify/edit the game for incredible power...


First you will need the ModTools: www.savefile.com/projects/808495177

That link has "Allies Mod Tools" as well as numerous other things, but I don't recommend fiddling with the others until you have a feel for the basics.

Now, before you use any tools I'm going to give you fair warning and STRONGLY suggest you back up each and every file you touch, 2 seconds of preparation can save a lot of time in headaches. That being said, I bare no responsibility for anything you monkey up, so please don't send me messages asking me to fix what you broke.

Now, since the blood of your mistakes is preemptively washed off my hands, let's have some fun!

Within the ModTools there is a wonderful program AttrConv, it will be your best friend as it will convert many of the XML files to a much more useful format that you can easily edit with Wordpad.

In your "Program Files\CDV Software Entertainment USA\Buka and Lesta\Pacific Storm Allies\data\params" folder you will find a file "GameParams", and it is the backbone of the game, so for God's sake make at least one backup that you will never EVER alter in case you foul something up. Once backed up, converting it is incredibly simple, drag and drop the GameParams file on top of the AttrConv program icon and it will automatically unpack it (it should go from about 2mb to a bit over 4mb or so).

Once it's unpacked, make another backup (I know it sounds tedious, but it's a relatively small file, and this can get you back to "unpacked and unedited" with a mere copy/paste).

To start editing the file, just right click GameParams and Open With -> Wordpad.

The basics of editing are pretty simple, first just about everything is listed as:

object name=

For instance, if I wanted to modify the Yamato class battleship(s), I'd do a find (ctrl + F) and type

object name="Yamato"

(including the quotes as there are other references to Yamato).

Below the object name= line, there are numerous values, some you can edit, but others you should either avoid messing with or just wait till you know what you're editing better so as to not break the mechanics.

To build the ship faster, the value you're looking for is:

float name="DTimeProd" value="180."
float name="NTimeProd" value="450."

And the number is the amount of days, so making that 180 & 450 into 1's means super fast Yamato building. I recommend using 1 for a really cheap/fast number because making things too low (fractional or nothing at all) can sometimes disagree with the game, however making it that cheap/fast is completely insignificant to your budget and time-scale in the game, and best of all the game is perfectly happy to use small numbers.

To make them cheaper look for:

float name="Money" value="40000."
float name="Iron" value="70200."

If you want to make them super cheap, make both of those numbers 1's and they will be cheap as dirt to build.

For now, I highly recommend not trying to change anything else with the ship and just use the pre-defined game mechanics as many other things of a ship/plane are inter-dependent with the parts they equip, so changing one thing on the craft may well not actually do a whole lot if the component that controls a stat isn't changed as well.


Now for Technology, both to make it super cheap and fast do another Find (ctrl+F) for the line:
object name="TechnologyByCountry"

Beyond that line is a VERY long list of technologies for all three main countries. If you want all the technology for the USA to be super fast and super cheap, run down the list for all the technologies with the value “USA” in:

string name="Country" value="USA"

Then any entry you see that is USA, look for two lines, one above and one below the Country Value:
integer name="Cost" value="57600"
integer name="MinTime" value="300"

It’s really pretty straight forward what the two mean, Cost is the price of the technology to research, and mintime is the minimum time to research it in days, so make them both 1’s and that tech will research in a day for 1 dollar (or the equivalent in Yen/Pounds given the game’s calculated exchange rate). Before you even ask it, YES, you can edit every single tech for one specific faction so that only you get the benefit and can be fully researched in a week or so, this includes the atomic bomb technologies.

I think for now I’ll leave off with the basics I’ve relayed here, it’s plenty to get an idea of what you’re doing and if you mess anything up it’s not too hard to track down the mistake or simply undo whatever it is you’ve done. If there’s enough interest I’ll look into making a more advanced tutorial on specific parts of craft to edit for simply ridiculous capabilities, but this is after all the goal of cheating.