They are Billions - Modpack! Economy boost, scenario unlocker, crazy zombies and much more!

[Master Sergeant Shooter Person]

Tired of playing the same map? Think the game is too hard, yet want to unlock the same map? Want to have a better economy and a huge army?

Or, do you think the game is too easy? Do you want even more zombies?

Then this is the modpack for you.

Currently includes:

50% better economy + Unlock v2 (1% score)
Crazy zombies v2 (Normal score) (Requires new game to work properly)
Default
Unlocker v2 (Normal score)
Rebalanced units + Unlocker v1 (1% score)
50% better economy + Unlock + Crazy Zombies v1 (1% score) (Requires new game to work properly)

Future mods will include any of the following:
Tougher zombies
Rebalanced player units
Rebalanced structures

As well as potential requests.


Econom improvement includes food from fishing, workers and gold from houses, energy from mills and powerplants, gold, iron and stone from mining, wood from woodcutting.

Currently does not include forarging and farming.


NOTE: Economy improvement reduces your score to 1%, no matter your other settings. Map unlocker does not.

All future mods that simply increase difficulty will not reduce score. All mods that buff the player in any way will set the score to 1%.

Download: REMOVED BY DEV REQUEST


Install by copy-pasting the ZXRules.dat you want to use to \Steam\steamapps\common\They Are Billions

Includes standard settings for restoring default values.

Next up will be more economy settings and more zombie settings. All of these will also reduce your score to 1%.

[tec805]

Hard to feel accomplishment when cheating the system.

[Master Sergeant Shooter Person]

Originally posted by tec805:

Hard to feel accomplishment when cheating the system.

Some people want an easier game. Some people get tired of playing the same map over and over, while being unable to unlock new maps.

Don't jugde other people just because you want to challenge yourself. Nobody forces you to install any of the mods.

[Kazeck]

Seriously, I'm just frustrated with this first map and want to check out the others.
Besides that, I've been looking into how to modify soldiers to be actually useful.

[Sieg]

"This link has been flagged as potentially Malicious" Link Blocked When i click on that.

[Master Sergeant Shooter Person]

Originally posted by Sieg:

"This link has been flagged as potentially Malicious" Link Blocked When i click on that.

Steam autoblocks mediafire because some people use it to spread malware. You need to copy the link into your browser manually.

[Commissioner Jean Claude Van Dan]

Eh its been blocked by steam? lol

plus copying the link into my browser doesn't work at all.

[Master Sergeant Shooter Person]

Originally posted by Quick 5ilv3r AKA hydrargyrum:

Eh its been blocked by steam? lol

Yeah, Steam blocks all sorts of webpages. Mediafire is one of them. There is nothing iffy about the file, it is literally just a bunch of zips with .dat files.

[Commissioner Jean Claude Van Dan]

Originally posted by Master Sergeant Shooter Person:

Originally posted by Quick 5ilv3r AKA hydrargyrum:

Eh its been blocked by steam? lol

Yeah, Steam blocks all sorts of webpages. Mediafire is one of them. There is nothing iffy about the file, it is literally just a bunch of zips with .dat files.

The link don't even work in my browser, just takes me to google search.

[Commissioner Jean Claude Van Dan]

Never mind I worked it out, just right click copy, paste in broswer delete the steam bit golden.

[tec805]

Originally posted by Sethfcm:

Seriously, I'm just frustrated with this first map and want to check out the others.
Besides that, I've been looking into how to modify soldiers to be actually useful.

The maps don't get easier. If you're stuck on 1 then 2 will be a problem. I had a hard time getting past 1 until I stopped building advanced stuff all the time. No Titans, no cool troops, just snipers and ballistas for most of the game.

[Master Sergeant Shooter Person]

Originally posted by Sethfcm:

Seriously, I'm just frustrated with this first map and want to check out the others.
Besides that, I've been looking into how to modify soldiers to be actually useful.

Just noticed I put the wrong .dat file into the unlocker, namely the strings file instead of the rules file. If you want to unlock other maps, you can refresh the download page and download the file again. It contains the correct .dat file for the unlocker now.

[Master Sergeant Shooter Person]

Switched to Google Drive instead of Mediafire.

[Kazeck]

Originally posted by tec805:

Originally posted by Sethfcm:

Seriously, I'm just frustrated with this first map and want to check out the others.
Besides that, I've been looking into how to modify soldiers to be actually useful.

The maps don't get easier. If you're stuck on 1 then 2 will be a problem. I had a hard time getting past 1 until I stopped building advanced stuff all the time. No Titans, no cool troops, just snipers and ballistas for most of the game.

Yeah, I am aware that the winning strat is rangers+snipers+ballista, then later executors. I realize that, and I know how to win from a technical view point. I just wish soldiers were better since I like them.

I wanted to try the second map because I don't mind villages of doom, (which really should be renamed to doomed villages.) and I wanted to see what it'd be like.

I personally feel the economy is fine in game, with the glaring exception of the market, even if the building placement is frustrating at times. The truly problematic elements are units being improperly balanced, and the horribly specific strategies required to win.

By that I mean that I love city building games, I like RTS games. I do well on games like company of heroes and the like where I can micro abilities and use squads well, and I also do well on standard rts games. The problem here is that several units suck, alot of good units are gated behind very expensive production facilities (the soldier center itself is costly, and I'd like it if we could train rangers from our center/hunting lodges.) But even those units are trash to most successful players who just use snipers...it's depressing to me because it feels so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gamey.

It's just like resources being sold for dirt cheap next to nothing prices, and purchased for 10x or even 20x their sale price. I don't mind it being a 4-5x ratio, where I pay 4 to 5 times as much as I can sell them for, but this level of disparity is ridiculous.

Ultimately I guess it's my sense of immersion and versimilitude that bothers me with this game. Soldiers being inferior to rangers, walls being torn down so readily by a handful of infected, and the horrendous exchange rates all add up to be quite frustrating.

Three things I'd suggest for the devs would have to be A, a static map you could select, or perhaps a handful of them for each map gen, that would give people a fair chance to win without worrying about the RNG. B, better market rates, and finally C, an evaluation of units cost-benefit ratio and the expansion of unit variety. Things like machine gun teams, the ability to perhaps build an 'entrenchment' with specific units and other nifty if unnecessary features would be beautiful to see.

TLDR, I love the game, have problems with some design decisions and would like to see more options.

[Klingenmeister]

Originally posted by tec805:

Hard to feel accomplishment when cheating the system.

As long as it doesnt screw with the upcoming leaderboard I am all for modding. Modding always improves games and enables people to change the game the way they like to play.

[Kazeck]

Just noticed I put the wrong .dat file into the unlocker, namely the strings file instead of the rules file. If you want to unlock other maps, you can refresh the download page and download the file again. It contains the correct .dat file for the unlocker now. [/quote]

Thanks man was wondering why that wasn't working correctly.

Also I scanned the files with ESET and confirmed they are clean.