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Whoa! Here's the guy (or girl) that put together the game I'm currently playing! I must say that playing PortableRA in windowed mode under Windows 7 with no color glitches or lock-ups is genuinely satisfying. Amazing work and big thanks! (I got here from playing the freeware I downloaded from redalert1.com, hence the pain.) Sorry it took me so long to reply. It's holiday season here in my country, so family time. I promise I'll try the Skirmish mode later on. I'm now trying out Counterstrike and The Aftermath (no, I didn't get to play them when they first came out). Do I have to be online to play it?

Yes. Tried it and it worked like a charm!

So I don't need to specify the country or any of the other parameters? Of course! That's where I got the game version as well (see my first post). How did I miss that? Thanks again, Allen!

Now that's something I bet not a lot of people know! So that means I could just leave the rules.ini unmodified but have a section added to the corresponding mission file (in my case that would be SCA01EA.ini, extracted from main.mix and saved as a file in the folder) containing the modification that I want (in my case that would be 'cheap Rangers'), am I correct? I guess the only way of knowing which mission file goes with which mission is to take a peek inside one by one, yes? Thanks again, FunkyFr3sh!

Gotcha Allen, thanks! I might force Aftermath units later to see how that changes the game play. Should be interesting.

Thanks, Jacko! I could just edit the cost of Ranger for Spain and leave it at that, because I don't play online anyway so I don't get to choose which Allied country I want to play. I normally just get the usual grey units in single player missions (England?). Awesome! I don't have to fiddle with XCC Mixer after all. :beer: I can't seem to find those two .XDP files you mentioned, FunkyFr3sh. Or are they in redalert.mix as well and need to be extracted first? Thanks for the pointers, Allen! I don't however need to change the values for the ants (not yet at least). I'd like the same level of challenge, but with a discounted price for the Rangers. (Plus I can't find the general.mix file.) Now let's see if I understand you guys right: - If I use a rules.ini file, RA will use the values in that file instead of the defaults buried within redalert.mix. - The Counterstrike add-on doesn't have its own .INI file because there isn't a new unit in the expansion pack. - aftrmth.ini will affect only those new units found in The Aftermath add-on, and can also be extracted from redalert.mix (in PortableRA). - I could (but I won't now) change the values for the ants if I take SCA01EA.ini to SCA04EA.ini out of main.mix. Again, thanks loads everyone for the really helpful replies!

To put things into perspective, I'd like to change the cost of the Ranger for the Stage 1 of the Ant Missions. Let's just say I find the giant ants' destructive powers a bit 'overwhelming'. Which country am I playing in that mission by the way? The uniform colors are different. Thanks!

Hi all, I've recently downloaded and installed PortableRA (version 3.03P R298). I wanted to modify the rules.ini but couldn't find it. Is it not used anymore, now that we have RedAlertConfig.exe? Or is there a fresh, unmodified, PortableRA-friendly rules.ini somewhere that I can download and use in the game? I use it usually to change unit/country costs for single player games, so it would be great if we could still have it. Thanks!