MyViewsAndMuse

Join Date 05/2003

Can you turn off Mercenaries?

This is just my opinion but is there a way to turn off Mercenaries? I want to run the latest version of the game with the all the other DLC content but would love to not have the mercenaries exist in the game as an option. I am sure it is just that I have not figured out how best to play with them but it kills my inner child when I am playing along, growing my civilization, researching, etc and one of the AI has hired a mercenary that comes along wipes out many of my ships and starbases. I would rather not have to worry about how to obtain my own mercs in order to counter them doing this too me and concentrate on building my own tech and ships to fight what they create.

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ForesterSOF

Join Date 10/2013

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Have you tried to uninstall the Mercenaries Expansion Pack in Steam.

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That would get rid of the mercs but all the other items (Torians, other enhancements/fixes) as well I believe.

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Taslios

Join Date 11/2002

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There should be an option in the game creation menu to remove the bazaars no bazzar's no merc

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LOL, I read your response wrong. When I read it I quickly booted up the game and started a new game and scoured the game options looking for a include bazaar option somewhere! It isn't there of course. But yes, an option like that would be great. Meanwhile I guess I will turn of that DLC and play.

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Horemvore

Join Date 08/2009

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You could comment out the Merc ships in the xml.

Edit:

I did it for you. Click Here

Extract it too ....Steam/steamapps/common/Galactic Civilizations III/DLC/EXP1_Mercenaries/Game

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Awesome! Thank you!

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I was thinking of firing up GC3 after not playing for months (and overall finding the game kind of "meh" vs GC2)....but the mercenaries thing makes me want to projectile vomit since....why....when did any player of this game ever suggest such nonsense so .... why. It's like random design tacked on to a formerly great franchise.

Quoting Taslios,

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There should be an option in the game creation menu to remove the bazaars no bazzar's no merc

I'm not seeing this option but I could be drunk or blind - old age and drink do this to a person.

I want an option similar to disabling tech trading - simple, and let me pretend mercenaries never existed.

In the end, I keep hoping that at some point this game will justify my $100 founders purchase and somehow measure up to GC2 for replay/play, but so far, to me, not there yet. Random additions like mercenaries don't help.

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admiralWillyWilber

Join Date 05/2009

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Reply 5 has the solution. Me and wintersong i asked for great people i later changed to heroes. Wintersong asked for heroes. To many asked to scale down heroes if we had them.

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Can someone repost the solution or the file? There are dozens of xml files in that location which one would you edit?

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