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Smarter Allies Pre-Alpha

A very buggy attempt at making allies 'smarter' by removing hardcoded advantages for enemy vs allied units. Health for units have been equalized wherever possible, damage of projectiles equalized, rate of fire equalized. This is for the main campaign.

Xedmod doesn't seem to import campaign descriptions automatically so there's no descriptions or anything. Also I don't know how to tie the modified database version into the base game, and the engine doesn't offer upgrades, selecting a ship, and related.

In terms of testing, there seems to be bugs with the campaign script, despite importing it (got a crash in mission 3 after killing a corvette).

This is mostly released if others want to work on polishing this since I have other things I'm working on (for other games) and this was a relatively quick change in Xedmod. Also used as an experiment in balancing.

Known bugs (no I won't be fixing these):
-No Descriptions
-No Mission Image
-Crash in Mission 3 if enemy corvette killed
-Mission 4 doesn't load
-All weapons available
-Mission 13 freeze 2nd half
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Random thoughts:
*It would've been easier if I could just modify the database directly rather than having to import the missions, except I can't since the database is compressed/encrypted.
*Early missions are far too easy with allies being not artificially weakened