How to disable raid fleets?

[tlmiller]

How do you disable raid fleets?  I think they're killing my ability to ever get anywhere.  So far, I've had about 20 battles, and 18 raid fleets have appeared.  So now, I just want to completely disable them.

[Corey]

Go into Data\Scripts\Story\InvadingFleet.lua and rename it. Altenatively, open it and change this line

if attack_chance <= 20 then

to a lower number. The game's generating a random number between 1 and 100, and if that number is lower than or equal to 20, it's making the fleet.

[tlmiller]

Thanks!  Think maybe that'll help me finish an Essence of War as the PA.

[Eclipse]

I belive that raid fleets are a good adittion. I feel really bad when I read the message and even worst when I don't and suddenly two star destroyers and more appear in the middle of my ships. I've also lost battles thanks to them but I like'em anyway

[tlmiller]

I like them in MOST GC's.  However, with the PA, because they start with so little income, it takes soooooooooooooooooooooooo long to get going, that I cannot finish ANY GC with them without the freeze happening.  So I think maybe without the raids I may be able to complete one.

[tlmiller]

So even with raid fleets turned off, i can't make it past week 160 as the PA.

Tried to do Stars Align with raid fleets on and the freeze happens by week 120.

[Eclipse]

That's a shame besides it always happen when you are about to win right? At least that's what happens to me

[tlmiller]

Yeah, on the Stars Align there were only 7 or 8 systems left to conquer.

[Eclipse]

It was a victory, At leas that's what I did when the freeze happened to me it was some kind of consolation

[Zharkov]

Go into Data\Scripts\Story\InvadingFleet.lua and rename it. Altenatively, open it and change this line

to a lower number. The game's generating a random number between 1 and 100, and if that number is lower than or equal to 20, it's making the fleet.

I like the idea, but 1 in 5 seems too often to me - where do all these raiders come from?

[Corey]

If you mean in the narrative sense, they're not raiders as in independent groups running around the galaxy. Star Wars is full of battles where a third side comes in halfway through a battle, and EaW lacked that automatic mechanic since the GC mode stops while the tactical battles go on.

[Ahkreeah]

Sometimes they can be great fun, sometimes they ruin all of the fun. It happened more than once that a strong IR force attacked my NR station which only had a small and inferior defense force, making for a fun challenge to still try and win that battle with the few X-Wings, Y-Wings, Corvette's and that one Dreadnaught I had to make do with. Then out of nowhere, a few destroyers in pale green jump in and attack the IR forces, destroying them. Because the battle is not over, but the IR technically has 0 forces, they call the retreat long before that third party ever makes it to my station and a good battle is ruined.

However, there's nothing more fun than declaring a victory too early when your damaged SSD has cut a path through the enemy destroyers and out of nowhere a small group of third faction ships jump in to give your SSD a hard time, forcing you to call back your escorts to save your flagship which gives the original opponent of the battle the time they need to regroup some of their vessels for a stronger defense. That adds surprise and fun to the fight!

[Singularity]

Just wondering, did they change the raid fleet colour from green to red with the hotfix? I'm not complaining, I actually prefer it now.

[Eclipse]

Just wondering, did they change the raid fleet colour from green to red with the hotfix? I'm not complaining, I actually prefer it now.

Yeah they've chaged it in hotfix 1 I think