HI i cant remember for the life of me how i managed to get ahold of a clean mission fst file for mechgold, in which i was able to edit the salvage chance percentage, changed it from 40 percent to 100 and i cant remember how to get ahold of tat file again. Does anyone know what im talking about?

You will have to look for apotheosis fst ripper or something like that...

I found fst ripper but it wont open the fst files aka mission.fst. Says invalid file type -_-

There is another tool: cmunsta tool (I think). Where can be found, I dont know.

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looked through his guide doesnt mention on how to edit the mission FST file.

Try Mechcommander.org under downloads.

There is an extraction tool, with a batch file to extract all files from the Mission.FST file. Just a double-click and it's done.

You can then edit the mission files.

I'm fairly sure you have to repack the FST to run MCG with the changes, but there is also a MakeFST program to do that with a .RSP file to use for the packing order.

You have to run MakeFST under a Command Prompt (DOS Window), passing the .RSP file as a parameter. You might also be able to drag and drop the RSP file to MakeFST.

Do all this outside of the MCX directory, then copy the Mission.fst to MCX and it should run fine.

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Almost forgot original question....

look at GAMESYS.FIT

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feels like idiot, i cant believe i forgot that was the file and not mission, well tks bud. Btw i hate 40 percent chance for salv. -_-

Unfortunately the owner of mechcommander.org took his site down and I don't have any backups of the extractor batch files except for misc.fst.

You could try to contact Rider at dannyxp@hotmail.com to see if he has backed up any of the files from the old mechcommander.org site.

Otherwise you will have to make a new batch file with fstextract commands in it for every file referenced by running fstdir.exe... I used ultraedit with column mode to make it much faster than it would normally take.

The file you are looking for is gamesys.fit... make a batch file with this command to extract just gamesys.fit... You will need the mission.fst, and fstextract.exe tool in the same folder.

FSTEXTRACT MISSION.FST GAMESYS.FIT GAMESYS.FIT

Then once u have tweaked any values u would like in there place it in a newly created missions folder in the mcx\data directory.

You can remove the file at will if u wish the revert back to normal without any problems.

Apparently Softpedia has the extractor installers available. Here is a link to download Mission.FST Extractor...

http://games.softpedia.com/get/Tools/Mech-Commander-Gold-Mission-FTS.shtml