Increased Suspect/Civilians Count

Was just thinking, with all the other hacks we are able to do with processing power not really being a limitation I don't see why when we hit up the "Random Objective" and set Suspects/Civilians we need to be limited to 30 any more, sure some maps 30 is already silly but could be nice to have a higher count on others.

I had a quick look through .DAT files and didn't find anything so I assume changing this would be a hex edit to the EXE, since I'm useless with finding where that would be I just fired up Cheat Engine and locked the Suspect value, had around 175 in at one point but some times it threw up the error "SkinDataTable: entry swt not found" I assume this might be due to a Suspect trying to spawn where I was? since there was the odd occasion I could load in and a suspect was where a friendly officer would normally spawn.

Just an idea, would need some actual testing and even 175 is a silly number, I'd suggest something like 99 at max and at the end of the day it all comes down to what the host wants to set anyway.

Did all my number testing on MissionA, 30 was already packed...

This is something that falls right up Copy-Cat's area of expertise.

A great suggestion for improvement of the game.

Lets gather some information about this topic.
How many char_starts are in MissionA?
How many swt_starts?

Try again but without mods, excluding LR of course, any change in errors?
Try a known map with at least 6 characters in it, to increase the random char_starts a map could possibly have.

Na, we are talking about Random Objectives that you would change when you are say doing a Killhouse style mission (aka 30 tango mission). 30 is the number you should be searching for.

The game allows you to put a max of 30 suspects and tangos combined total in the Random Objectives. You can put 30 tangos and 0 civs for instance.

I assume this is hard coded into the game executable. I can't remember if I have ever searched for it in the .DAT files.

Update: Just did a quick search using an search app. Couldn't find anything. You can tell it is probably hard coded just by the way the game automatically adjusts the other number to keep it at a max of 30.

I understand what we are trying to do..

I still want to know.....
How many char_starts are in MissionA?
How many swt_starts?

Try again but without mods, excluding LR of course, any change in errors?
Try a known map with at least 6 characters in it, to increase the random char_starts a map could possibly have in it.

I don't want to mow your grass but I think you are making it much more difficult than it needs to be.

DarkSynopsis, from my understanding, already partially found the location with the cheat engine. We will never need 175 in a random objective mission. All I am looking to do is maybe bump it to 45 or 60.

Wouldn't you just search with the cheat engine for the current values you have, modify the value, search again, etc?

Update: if you still want to know those values you can always run the entity exporter app that I made to export the data from missionA.scn file, or Furrycat's SCN editor, or possibly with the Swat 3 mission web browser on this website you can count them.