50 starting units

[Lightning]

I saw one person opened a game with 50 starting units instead of the normal max of 12, the game was cancelled, when I then opened a game I had the option of starting with 50 units for each player and successfully so, after that it went back to max of 12.

 

I'm unfamiliar with this, what exactly happened and why?

 

[Echo]

Bases. Disabling bases will allow far more starting units.

[Jacko]

On a similar note, is the units you start with hard coded?

Because changing owner= in rules.ini doesn't affect this

[Allen508]

Yes the type of units you start with is hard coded.

[Jacko]

that sucks

 

so if you want custom units starting you have to paste them over what you want them to replace.... (like in Red Dawn)

[Iran]

You can set a custom amount of starting units when hosting games. Though most of the time the games freezes with more than 100 starting units.

 

If you have interest in changing the Soviet and Allies countries spawning units jacko, you'll have to do research for me.

[Lightning]

Bases were enabled, also this does not establish why it gave me the option of starting with 50 units then changed it back one game later

[FunkyFr3sh]

you can only do that via the redalert.ini file or with an old version of the config tool, its also possible to start with more than 10000credits