Thanks for the reply once again, and again, fair enough with your reasoning. I'm not ever going to hold that against you given it is your mod, and you are far more experienced and skilled than I am with this C&C Remastered coding stuff.

I'm simply asking about being able to choose to have a 2nd (free) harvester spawned for my own personal preference, but also, as I suggested, it could be a feature in the ini file that is implemented as an opt in feature, rather than opt out, so that it won't ruin the balance of the (modded) game for other mod users who don't want that feature in play for their particular play-through, be it single player, multiplayer, or whatever it is that they use the mod for.

I fully realise it is providing free harvesters, never going to argue otherwise because that is simply the fact of the matter. Simply put, in my particular play style I'm a turtle style player, and therefore I don't build up rush forces at the expense of building a strong defensive set up, and having that extra harvester spawned with the newly built refinery suits my style because it facilitates a faster build up of a strong defensive line of base defenses, and units to support them too. But that suggestions is also because I have found throughout my play-throughs of C&C Remastered, even on hard difficulty, that while using this mo,d and a few others for that matter, since the C&C Remaster was first released in mid 2020, that the AI also benefits from having that extra harvester, particularly if the regrowth rate for Tiberium is increased quite significantly. Especially because the AI sucks despite the remaster at its resource management and strategic planning.

In my experience the AI seems to really struggle to maintain a half decent economy if it doesn't either have a way to have nearly unlimited resources by default, or at least a much faster harvest rate that a 2nd (free) harvester provides it with from the start of the map. And I have found that to be especially so if the AI loses it's initial harvester/s and/or refinery really early in the particular map being played, and again yet even more so in skirmish mode where the speedy build up of units and defenses is often the difference between survival and death, even for the AI.

Anyway, as you can probably tell, I'd love to see that kind of feature included in the next update you put out for this mod, but it is something that I can survive without for the time being too. And it is YOUR mod so I will always respect that fact and enjoy whatever ini file customisation I can do to suit my own personal preferences, because what you have done already is really wonderful work and I really enjoy having that freedom to edit the ini for my own personal preference that your coding to utilise ini files for easy customisation has enabled.

Keep up the wonderful work and I will continue to enjoy using your mod as part of my repertoire of C&C Remastered gameplay and QoL altering mods.

With Beta 17 you will be able to set the free unit and the free unit count for building types. I won't add different settings for AI/Human player. Please use the new Feature request thread if you have more requests.

No worries, that ini set up looks good to me, and I will definitely not ask in this particular thread for anything else new feature wise going forwards. Thank you kindly for accommodating that request for me, I really appreciate it 🙂

New free unit rules.


Possible FreeUnitConfig flags are:


If you preffer Red Alert's setting where the Refinery has the same cost/buildtime as the weapons factory then use this setting.

If I want to override some of the unit settings, like changing the MCV to have a building prerequisite of the communications center instead of the GDI only advanced communications center, without changing rules.ini how would I do that?
Actually, after some googling I see it should be buildable by the temple of nod as well, but that seems to be missing.

Add the following to your rules_mod.ini.


When an object is buildable by Nod the EYE also means Temple, it is hard coded in the dll.

Thanks, that makes sense. I tried adding settings to rules_mod but it didn't take effect. To try something more obvious I tried making the trex buildable with
[TREX]
Buildable=yes
TechLevel=6
Scenario=6
Owner=GDI,Nod,Special

but that also did not work. I put the same settings in rules.ini and it did work. I did put a blank line at the end of rules_mod and I tested it on the covert operations under siege mission.

Please read the Rules.ini thread. When I refer to your rules_mod.ini I'm talking about the local file and not the one that is inside the workshop folder, which is just a blue print.

Example for adding new units, in this case a harvester mk2.

Example for adding new upgrades, 20% damage reduction (ARMOR) for harvester in this case.


You can also add the harvester to the existing Composit Armor upgrade.

Originally posted by cobber51:

Also, any ideas how can I make the APC turreted without it getting that annoying white square surrounding it? I can add the turret code to the APC but it causes that particular graphical glitch, which defeats the purpose for me because it makes for a hideous sight even if the turret does actually appear to work correctly.

I just found out that Red Alert has an APC with separate turret graphics, called Phase Tank (STNK in aftrmath.ini).
In the next update I'll add that as APC2 tileset along with TurretShapeOffset and TurretImageShapeOffset rules. Then it will be possible to create APC's with working turrets. The tileset is now available as RASTNK.

Here an example of a modified APC (needs Beta 25):

Awesome, can't wait to try it out!

Hi there, is there a way to prevent the ai from actually using its superweapon? Building the temple etc. is fine for me, but a rule so they don't use the superweapon would be great. Thanks in advance!

Even if I'm not a fan of it I'll add an option for it because in the original remaster the AI wasn't able to use the super weapons in skirmish. I won't add it to campaign though.