Are there any guides I can reference to see how to edit item drop rates and characters, like the OP says? First time working with the innards of a game (not sure how to word it lol). On Windows 7 if that's relevant.
This is something I am still figuring out. There's additional information about this project on pioneer2.net
So far I have figured a few things out
/server/ship.ini
has stuff like
# Box weapon drop rate
30000
# Box armor/shield drop rate
20000
# Box mag drop rate
10
# Box tool drop rate
50000
# Box meseta drop rate
40000
# Experience boost (Becomes x * 100%)
1
I don't know if setting those values to anything else is closer or further to the standard drop rates, but it feels quite normal to me.
/server/tethealla.ini
Has a few settings that lets you change the likelihood of rare enemies.
I don't yet know how to change specific drop rates, but I'm sure that it's as simple as finding which commands go into the ship.ini
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If you want to make an item there are two ways to do it:
/item or
/give commands work (the latter puts it in your inventory)
To use it, go into /extras/ and find the Item_Maker.exe
Pick the attributes etc. and hit make, it will give you some Hex numbers ~ insert them in the form of: /item 12345678,12345678,12345678,12345678
Of course you can only use such commands if you are a GM, but since you're playing local just use the admin account. Otherwise you have to specify your Guild Card being a GM in the /server/localgms.ini (set the value after the Guild Card to 3 to have all access)
Finally, and I'm not sure if this required, but I couldn't get /item to work without some tinkering so perhaps you need to add it to the ini so it looks like this:
# /event = 1
# /item = 2
# /give = 4
# /warpme = 8
And finally, /redbox forces the next enemy to drop whatever its rare item is. I'll do some looking to see if there is a way to simply increase rare drop rate.
Those were the days...