In playing C&C Generals but not Zero Hour, I am trying to figure out how to change the initial cash amount of a session. I tried inserting StartingCash statement within Skirmish.ini or SkirmishStats.ini or Neetwork.ini and none have worked. How should I modify Generals to have that happen.
Thanks
gary

go to multiplayer.ini and scroll to the bottom
either change the existing amounts or add new ones

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Thanks for the reply klingondragon. I searched for multiplayer.ini on the C:\ drive and did not find that file. Do I create it from scratch? And what about when you want to play solo and use Skirmish with AI? What you thinK/
Gary

Go to c:/program files /ea games / command and conquer generals
Open ini.big and either extract multiplayer.ini or just change it there
If you extract it save the modified ini to data/ini inside the generals folder
It will work for skirmish as effectively skirmish is just a multiplayer game against computers not humans
***WARNING***
You cant play online if you do this
You will be able to play online only with people who have the same modified ini
My suggestion is if you play generals online play zero hour for skirmish and leave the ini there all the time
And vise versa if you play zh online

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Here is an example ini you could use
  New Compressed (zipped) Folder.zip (1kb) downloaded 791 time(s).

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just checked the code as i did this from memory and im not sure if this will work
tell me if it does because i may have found an alternate method

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klingondragon - I extracted the multiplayer.ini file from your zip and placed it in the directory c:\program files\ea games\command and conquer generals\data\ini I ran generals and during the program loading, I received an error message box entitled "technical difficulties"
with the message:
You have encountered a serious error. Serious errors can be caused by
many things including viruses, overheated hardware and hardware that does
not meet the minimum specifications for the game. Please visit the
forums at wwww.generals.ea.com for suggested course of action or consult
yuou munal for Technical Support contact information. then I get thrown out of generals. It I rename multiplayer.ini then the games loads successfully. I thought that possibly and the end of multiplayer.ini was 7 multiplayerstartingMoneyChoice sections with different values so I deleted 6 sections and kept the one with , as follows

MultiplayerStartingMoneyChoice
Value = 5000
End

MultiplayerStartingMoneyChoice
Value = 10000
Default = Yes
End

MultiplayerStartingMoneyChoice
Value = 20000
End

MultiplayerStartingMoneyChoice
Value = 100000
End

MultiplayerStartingMoneyChoice
Value = 500000
End

MultiplayerStartingMoneyChoice
Value = 1000000
End

MultiplayerStartingMoneyChoice
Value = 5000000
End

ran Generals again with the same error message. I'm not sure what the issue. Laptop is a few years old but its over 2GHz duo core with 4GB mem. I played Generals/ZH quite abit on this laptop. I run high resolution I think its 1024x768.

what you think? gary   multiplayer.ini.txt (3kb) downloaded 3 time(s).   multiplayer.extracted-from-zip.txt (3kb) downloaded 59 time(s).

It wont work because I assumed the multiplayer ini folder for generals and zh were the same kind of structure
I'm having a look at the generals one and I'm trying to find a way of doing it

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Change the 'DefaultStartingCash' parameter in GameData.ini.   GameData.rar (7kb) downloaded 251 time(s).   gamedata.zip (7kb) downloaded 164 time(s).

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I'm working on a way to do it such that you can chops the initial amount not just change it to a fixed amount but this is a good fix for now

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Here is a lol fix:

Go to the directory where you installed C&C Generals and make 3 copies of 'Command & Conquer(tm) Generals' name them as this:
Command & Conquer(tm) Generals - $50000
Command & Conquer(tm) Generals - $100000
Command & Conquer(tm) Generals - $500000

Take the right GameData.ini i attached and put it in the right INI folder, so the 'GameData $50000' goes in the $50000 game etc.

Now go to your desktop and create a text file and copy/paste this code:

Save it as a bat file, so something like this, 'Generals Cash.bat', check if the paths are right!!!
Double click the batfile you created and voilla a Generals startcash menu..:P   GameData.rar (20kb) downloaded 182 time(s).   gamedata.zip (21kb) downloaded 99 time(s).

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