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Originally Posted by The Butcher

I am trying to enable someone with the most basic of skills to start a career on a day other than the 1st. It will allow me to get people started on a campaign game sooner. If they have to wait too long it becomes tedious. After they start the Commander the "set days in port" function works perfectly for what I need. If I use that randomize function there is no input option in Commander correct? If not I think I'm better off with the JSGME angle, so they can take it out. Otherwise they may change their emblem later and end up with extra days in port. Thanks for the help.

"so they can take it out" is the same whichever way one goes - you either edit Basic.cfg, or you edit Randomised events.cfg. No difference there. The main advantage of the SH3Cmdr approach is that only the one setting is being modified in Basic.cfg. If you bundle up an array of Basic.cfg files to enable via JSGME, then you will be imposing not only the emblems setting, but every other setting that is in that file. How many different versions of Basic.cfg are out there? Even GWX2.1 comes with a number of different versions, so how will you make your mod fully compatible? Or do you intend it only for a small number of users? A lot of work for essentially one simple setting change which may result in the user needing to make many setting changes to compensate. :hmm:

Further, with the SH3Cmdr approach, you can then enable through JSGME any mod that updates Basic.cfg without having to reapply the emblem changes or edit any files - SH3Cmdr will do all that automatically. In other words, add once and forget. Don't want it all the time though? Just add ; to the beginning of the line. Most likely players will be modifying Basic.cfg anyway to replace the other settings that your JSGME mod overwrote.

Alternatively, you can date limit it so that the setting only applies to the months that you generally start your careers, say Sep 1939 or whatever. Come Oct 1939 (or even later Sep 1939), the value automatically reverts back to the stock setting.

But you go with the way you prefer.