Modifying the storyteller

[RetPaladinlol]

I've been playing on Cassandra Intense and have gone about 14 or so days without a raid so it's getting a little too stale. I'd like to increase the frequency of raids to once at least every 7 or 8 days.

I took a peek into the Storyteller xml and found these lines;

<li Class="StorytellerCompProperties_ThreatCycle">
        <minDaysPassed>5</minDaysPassed>
        <mtbDaysThreatSmall>3.75</mtbDaysThreatSmall>
        <mtbDaysThreatBig>1.20</mtbDaysThreatBig>
        <threatOffDays>6.0</threatOffDays>
        <threatOnDays>4.6</threatOnDays>
        <minDaysBetweenThreatBigs>1.9</minDaysBetweenThreatBigs>
      </li>

I can sort of guess that <minDaysPassed>5 defines the minimum amount of days before another big threat or raid comes. I'm not sure what <mtbDaysThreatBig>1.20 defines. And for the rest like <threatOffDays> I'm not really sure.

[Distman]

Try using ILSpy to snoop into the inner workings of StorytellerComp_ThreatCycle.

But in general, it says: If you lower minDaysPassed, threatOffDays and minDaysBetweenThreatBigs you should have big threats more often.
mtbDaysThreat... are harder to understand. Usually a low value makes something happen sooner/more often. But doesn't seem to be the case in storyteller.

Check out other storyteller mods for inspiration. There's one including three new storytellers, one of which sends a raid every 7 days.

/Distman

[RetPaladinlol]

Thanks for the insight. For future reference for anyone else looking at this thread, I looked up Dangerous Rim which makes raids come more often, etc. Opened that up and compared it to the vanilla storyteller to see how they did it.

[jamaicancastle]

MTB(whatever) is mean time between - it generates a random time with the average being equal to that value.

The first minDaysPassed simply prevents those events from firing during the first X days of the colony's existence; it doesn't recur. The minDaysBetween at the end is what keeps major threats from being back to back.

[RetPaladinlol]

MTB(whatever) is mean time between - it generates a random time with the average being equal to that value.

The first minDaysPassed simply prevents those events from firing during the first X days of the colony's existence; it doesn't recur. The minDaysBetween at the end is what keeps major threats from being back to back.

So you're saying the average time for a big threat would be every 1.2 days? (<mtbDaysThreatBig>1.20</mtbDaysThreatBig>)

That seems a little off since there was a time in my colony where 27 days passed between one raid and the next. Or am I misunderstanding what you said?