is there anyway i can turn off the new xp gain?
i only really want the new rookie stats and the survival of downed soldiers

seems like this would break balancing

Again: if this mod is not working for you, go back through the comments for the simple fix from Caravan of Souls. You have to edit an xml file, but it is really easy.

Nope does not work any more !

This doesnt seem to work in my game. Does it require a new game? Also the ranks are incorrect.

good stuff. only nitpick is that lance corporal is a lower rank than corporal, at least irl

@ColdHeat it depends on the nation (IRL) but there are indeed SF troops who have the rank of private and corporals (although more often corporals) it's not an automatic promotion just by getting in SF

Soldier ranks could be improved imho. When the earth sends it's elite forces it's easy to say extremely unlikely that they send Privates or even Corporals. They will send trained soldiers that already have a higher rank due to a prolonged time of training, service and qualification.

You should therefor delete those ranks for the sake of immersion and instead add Specialist Ranks as the lowest, more Sergeant Ranks and more officer ranks. No problem with having a Captain or Major commanding their troops in the field as long as promotions dont happen just after every second mission.

Higher officer ranks should ideally be limited still. So 1 staff officer per 20 soldiers in a base if that would be possible.

@The Entire Soviet Union, I assume you mean the "gameconfig.xml" by mentioning "settings.xml" ?

Anyone interested in using this mod now, it will not work unless you apply the easy fix described by Caravan of Souls a few comments down. Just find the mod in your game directory and edit the settings xml with notepad. I tested it using CE.

Just as a suggestion: Perhaps mention version mod is for, i.e., Vanilla/DE/etc. Thanks for the mod.

My Corporal got promoted to a lance Corporal?

Update the mod.

only interested in the more realistic ranks, and that is working fine.

Most "New recruits" should be from more special operations background. I would think they would be recruiting from SEALS, Army SF/Detla, Airfoce PJs for Medics ext ext. Full disclosure I am a former SEAL, but I was not part of any counter alien task force, that I am allowed to talk about lol jk

It won't work for me. I am playing CE. Any suggestions?

It works with X-Division. Though the recruitment stats do not function, the rest, I believe, does.

I do not honestly know.

Is it compatible with X-Division my good sir?

I didn't check the soldier recovery chances, soldier development, or crash survival chances (mostly because they would take a lot longer to check, and because BarleyTroops didn't have anything for those), but the ranks are definitely working.

@ShadowDragon8685 So I looked at the complaints that this mod wasn't working. I downloaded the BarleyTroops mod and looked through the code quickly. After a quick comparison, the only real difference I could find was that the BarleyTroops mod (which works) is that, in the SoldierStats header
(<soldierStats comment="Soldier's stats are generated with values in the specified range.">)
the BarleyTroops mod included "MODMERGE=insertreplace", so it looked like this:
<soldierStats MODMERGE=insertreplace comment="Soldier's stats are generated with values in the specified range.">
I quickly added it, and the mod seems to work fine now. Hope that helps!

could you do a version with just the ranks?

Буду пробовать

In short, it is just more dificult to play, that is all about

Hum, I'm still getting soldiers promoted to corporal and then lance corporal afterwards, which is incorrect (lance corporal is the more junior rank)

oh i see now haha, it still lists it in your description

For... I fixed that! I don't know why you seem to be getting an older version.

hey i just wanna say, lance corporal is a junior rank to corporal but you put it as a senior rank

Not working for me. Running vanilla with no other mods active.

hmm no joy - thx for the support tho :)

Closer to the top, not farther.

Nope, still after putting it last, it doesnt work. Ah well

Oh! I didnt realise there was an order to the madness! :) So does it have to be last then?

@Changeling_Will: I don't THINK so... But it cant hurt.

@puglife: check the mod load order. If this is being loaded before (and consequently overwritten) by the CE modules, it won't have any effect.

@ShadowDragon8685 - nope only using xenonauts CE and this . Weird. Ah well, thanks anyway

Do you need a new game for this to appply?

@puglife: Then you might have installed another mod that overwrites the same values and is being loaded at a higher priority, like barleytroops.

doesnt seem to work for me - I'm using the community engine etc, but the starting troops still seem to have stats below 45 . as well as TUs below 55

@TheYeshMan : Scope, man. Scope.

ONE of these changes (renaming existing ranks) is a relatively simple, three-hour job (the bulk of which consisted of discovering that for some absurd reason the game was looking for a filename with a name the same as the displayed string of the rank! (WTF!?!?! )) the other requires cranking the Xenonauts open and making massive, sweeping changes to the game itself.

In other words, changing the rank names and icons was something I did in one night, the other would be a project along the scope of XCOM Long War.

Where I like not having the field full of high ranking officers and "commanders" (whatever they were supposed to be), I think that having a field full of master sergeants is a similar problem-- they are some of the highest ranked NCOs in the US armed forces. In fact, there are more captains in the US Army than there are master sergeants. I think that a way to fix this problem would be to seperate officers from enlisted personel, and have two different trees, with officers leveling up to higher ranking officers, and enlisted personel ranking up into NCOs.

NICE! I mean, I have made my own modifications to my game along these lines, but not nearly as in-depth as you have done. Subscribed and Up-Voted!

@Shinzyboo - what? Awh, sonofa - arrrgh. My main PC is FUBAR right now. I'll have to recheck the NATO rank structure again when the PC that has the mod on it is working.

Not too be overly picky...but a Lance Corporal comes before a Corporal.

definitely the best stat change mod Xenonauts has had