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[puke]

I'm a little fuzzy on why some of those are at zero, I didn't compile the numbers myself.

Belgium has one of the highest GDP's in the world, when measured per capita.  But in raw values, they are somewhere around 25th in the world depending on who's list you're using.  Since there are only 16 council countries, it makes sense that they don't rate.  But I think the guy who made the list averaged together some neighboring countries?  There is no Benelux, so maybe he gave them to France? Not sure.

There are WAY more countries on the list (probably because they appear as soldier nationalities?) than exist on the geoscape, so maybe they have zero-values if they don't show up as a funding country?  Not sure here, either. 

Edits:  Here, this dude made the original list and explains his methods.  The numbers for the 16 funding countries include their various numbers.  Egypt, for example, represents the entire middle east.  http://www.reddit.com/r/Xcom/comments/33jdq1/lw_updated_realistic_country_funding_mod/

Also, he has an updated list on that link.

[Tronak]

Any easy way to change that? If so, I'll probably be changing it to at least double or more the charges.

This is the tweak I used, based on a older version of LW but probably still valid:

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Weapons=( strName="", iType=eItem_ArcThrower,               ABILITIES[0]=eAbility_ShotStun,       ABILITIES[1]=0,                            ABILITIES[2]=0,                     ABILITIES[3]=0,                  ABILITIES[4]=0,             ABILITIES[5]=0,             Properties[0]=eWP_AnyClass,   Properties[1]=eWP_NoReload,      Properties[2]=eWP_CantReact,     Properties[3]=eWP_Secondary, Properties[4]=eWP_Backpack,    Properties[5]=eWP_Pistol,        iDamage=0, iEnvironmentDamage=0, iRange=27, iReactionRange=30, iReactionAngle=200, iRadius=0, iCritical=0, iOffenseBonus=0, iSuppression=0, iSize=eItemSize_Small, iHPBonus=0, iWillBonus=0 )

iSuppression should do the ammo, in the format xxyy, where xx is shots WITH ammo conservation; yy is shots WITHOUT ammo conservation.  I suspect there may be some inherent problems with the Arc Thrower though, since it is based on an item and not a weapon, and items are more like grenades.  I haven't tried it, you may have to remove its ability to exist as an item and make it only a pistol rather than either/or.

Changing funding levels sounds amusing as well. I might be too tempted to let some regions burn...

I'll just leave this here then:

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FundingAmounts=356 ; 0fc USA
FundingAmounts=65 ; 1fc Russia
FundingAmounts=218 ; 2fc China
FundingAmounts=112 ; 3fc UK
FundingAmounts=162 ; 4fc Germany
FundingAmounts=125 ; 5fc France
FundingAmounts=132 ; 6fc Japan
FundingAmounts=51 ; 7fc India
FundingAmounts=79 ; 8fc Australia
FundingAmounts=0 ; 9f Italy
FundingAmounts=0 ; 10f South Korea
FundingAmounts=0 ; 11f Bosnia (eCountry_Turkey)
FundingAmounts=0 ; 12 Indonesia
FundingAmounts=0 ; 13f Spain
FundingAmounts=0 ; 14 Pakistan
FundingAmounts=39 ; 15fc Canada
FundingAmounts=0 ; 16 Iran
FundingAmounts=0 ; 17f Israel
FundingAmounts=81 ; 18fc Egypt
FundingAmounts=70 ; 19fc Brazil
FundingAmounts=19 ; 20fc Argentina
FundingAmounts=37 ; 21fc Mexico
FundingAmounts=18 ; 22fc South Africa
FundingAmounts=0 ; 23f Poland
FundingAmounts=0 ; 24f Ukraine
FundingAmounts=26 ; 25fc Nigeria
FundingAmounts=0 ; 26 Venezuela
FundingAmounts=0 ; 27f Greece
FundingAmounts=0 ; 28f Honduras (eCountry_Columbia)
FundingAmounts=0 ; 29 Portugal
FundingAmounts=0 ; 30f Sweden
FundingAmounts=0 ; 31f Ireland
FundingAmounts=0 ; 32f Scotland
FundingAmounts=0 ; 33f Norway
FundingAmounts=0 ; 34f Netherlands
FundingAmounts=0 ; 35f Belgium


Also, this is a good resource:  http://ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Mods_(Long_War)

Thanks for the post as a whole but specially for the link. I'm interested in tweaking Long war (seriously, 7 days long for changing an aircraft's weapon system?), but never thougth info was so good or game was so moddable, this helps a lot.

[puke]

I'm interested in tweaking Long war (seriously, 7 days long for changing an aircraft's weapon system?), but never thougth info was so good or game was so moddable, this helps a lot.

Yep, these are the numbers I used.  Original LW numbers commented out with ; and my numbers following:

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; The Hangar
;INTERCEPTOR_REPAIR_HOURS=600 ; Hours to repair an interceptor with 100% damage. Setting this below 75 reportedly induces buggy behavior. If you play with this anyway, and get the 0-days-to-repair bug, set to 700+ until the bugs go away.
;INTERCEPTOR_REARM_HOURS=168 ; Hours to add any alien-technology-based weapon
;INTERCEPTOR_TRANSFER_TIME=36 ; Hours to send interceptor to another continent

INTERCEPTOR_REPAIR_HOURS=336 ; Hours to repair an interceptor with 100% damage. Setting this below 75 reportedly induces buggy behavior. If you play with this anyway, and get the 0-days-to-repair bug, set to 700+ until the bugs go away.
INTERCEPTOR_REARM_HOURS=96 ; Hours to add any alien-technology-based weapon
INTERCEPTOR_TRANSFER_TIME=24 ; Hours to send interceptor to another continent
I think I lowered the repair time to be similar to the purchase time, but I might have left it a bit longer?  Can't remember.

[Tronak]

Your numbers seem much more sensible to me. I'm having a blast looking at every parameter of the configs, unexpected moddability feels so good.

[Zangi]

@Advent/Apocalypse
I'd hit that.  Even if Advent is just a finished Apocalypse.

[Remalle]

The ADVENT site has been getting more "hacked" over time, if you haven't noticed already.  One of the new lines - "THE CITIES ARE TRAPS" - seems to imply there may be more than one city involved.  Also, the "ADVENT gene therapy will free you from illness" image now flickers to reveal shadowy figures, but it's too quick to make out what they are.

[Lightningfalcon]

And now we have a mp3 file that proclaims that "We are still here".  It also mentions refugees, so there might be some world disaster going on.

[Chiefwaffles]

Definitely looks like it's getting updated daily. The "Prosper together" hacked image was there yesterday, along with "The ADVENT is lying to you. They want to subdue". Though today "and destroy us" was added to that. All three of the "Protect/Propagate/Prosper" thingies are hacked now. Also seems like the "Cities of Tomorrow" image is getting more hacked? Maybe there's another image in the "subverted" portions?

I'm pretty sure the mentioned "refugees" is one of two things. Number one is that it could be how the ADVENT guys refer to new citizens to make it seem like the world is in a horrible condition before being uplifted by them. Alternatively, it could be similar to Apocalypse - Earth is almost inhabitable except for few places, such as ADVENT cities. Hence refugees.
_{hype hype hype hype hype}

[Empty]

All is fine!

Join us at Advent!

[a1s]

And 'Lets prosper together' seems to show some balaclava-wearing guys with pistols.

Unless the page didn't fully refresh, that's the same "riot-gear guys" we saw yesterday.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Earth being mostly uninhabitable is a point that doesn't make much sense, as that was a direct result of Terror From The Deep's ending in the original series. The only way to fit that in I can think of is the wreckage of the Temple Ship raining debris all over Earth immediately after the end of EU.

I think it will be more along the lines of inter-human or human-hybrid-machine conflict with alien tech in the interregnum causing enough harm to make the ADVENT cities necessary. Or just old-fashioned climate change, though elerium would make that an odd outcome.

Regardless, I think it is important to keep in mind the theme quote of Enemy Within, since it was never taken to its conclusion in that game:

Those Who Play With The Devil's Toys
Will Be Brought By Degrees
To Wield His Sword

[rabidgam3r]

It's worth it to note that two of the people at the very bottom are listed as "MISSING", and that the "ADVENT CITIZENS" counter seems to be an on-going thing-- Maybe an unorthodox countdown to release?

EDIT: I didn't notice, but the missing citizens also had their text hacked, "we are still here." and "look for our signs." Shit, I bet somebody's running around spraypainting the XCOM shield on ADVENT buildings.

[Rolan7]

Yeah that was a bit disappointing about Enemy Within.  Despite the fact that aliens practically throw meld at humanity the entire game, for mysterious unexplained reasons, and it's freakin *nanites* we don't understand well enough to reverse-engineer, nothing bad ever comes from pumping our troops full of them.  Despite the name of the expansion, even.

... Yet.  That would be a great, very logical reveal:  "Hey, that free candy was drugged!  Idiots."

Heh, I bet there's a mod that makes gene-modded soldiers and MECs more vulnerable to psionic control.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

The focus of Enemy Within ultimately was more on EXALT, though that also disappointed me. There should have been a third tier of Exalt, who use plasma and have gone full posthuman with gene, mech, and psi enhancement. We're talking "Bradford initially mistakes them for a new alien species" posthuman. All three tiers should have had interrogations, while the Elite and Exalted should have had autopsies. But alas.

[Lightningfalcon]

Yeah that was a bit disappointing about Enemy Within.  Despite the fact that aliens practically throw meld at humanity the entire game, for mysterious unexplained reasons, and it's freakin *nanites* we don't understand well enough to reverse-engineer, nothing bad ever comes from pumping our troops full of them.  Despite the name of the expansion, even.

... Yet.  That would be a great, very logical reveal:  "Hey, that free candy was drugged!  Idiots."

Heh, I bet there's a mod that makes gene-modded soldiers and MECs more vulnerable to psionic control.

Another neat feature would have been making gene mods and MECS even more powerful, but they either start slowly dying, so they are only good for two or three months, or they slowly go insane, so when they panic more... fun, events occur.