It would be cool to have an option to could switch off Merc functionality but retain Arceans, Torians plus the extra ship parts for sandbox games.

Most of you probably already know this but, in notepad++ findreplace

<CreditCost>[^<>]+</CreditCost> in the Find and

<CreditCost>100000000000000000</CreditCost> in the Replace 

This will sufficiently increase the cost of all ships. 

EDIT: Correction use 2147483.647 instead of 1000000000000000000000000 otherwise the game will give an error basically saying the ship cost cannot exceed 2147483.647.

EDITII: For some reason now only about half of them cost 2147483.647 credits, the rest a normal amount. The change was made to all tags in the XML so not sure where it is going wrong.

Cheers

Hey,

Are you saying that the game rejected a EXP1_MercenaryDefs put in the mod folder?

To clarify, I've been working on a mod for awhile now and wanted to remove the United Earth faction from the game, so I put a copy of DLC6_FactionDefs in the Documents/GalCiv3/Mod/Game folder, and replaced the contents with a junk string table. Since then I haven't had the UE in  game nor any problems, from that file at least

Placing a file with the exact name as the original, and in the right folder (e.g. mod/game) should overwrite the original without the game counting it as a broken file. If this isnt working, I suggest contacting SD's technical support. This thread explains the basics in detail https://forums.galciv3.com/473442

Hope this helps and sry if this is just a post about what you already know. 

I also request an easy on/off option for enabling/disabling the Mercenaries in the expansion so a player can have the extra factions and other improvements and not have the Mercs part of it. I want a "realistic" feel of building a race and government...I don't see super mercenary battleships attacking US interests in the Indian ocean today.