Does this still work in Steam? The edits don't seem to hold. Unlike the standalone version. If someone doesn't mind confirming it's still editable, I'll keep trying

Is there a way to edit the unlocked research?

Since the update the save files are located in the "my games" folder on Windows

Thank you Renegade B for the help.

With this May 10, 2024 RTW3 update. All the files normally on the Steam local C drive are no longer there and appeared stored in a game server, inaccessible to modding. How do we get around this?

Some notes for "amenders".

-Be careful about giving yourself TOO much Funds. If the game sees you have a ton of liquid cash, it will say the Navy is overfunded and give the Army a chunk of your budget. This means budget cuts. In general, having over 300,000 Funds at once will get your budget slashed. This also applies even if you're NOT savegame modding, so keep spending your cash!

-If you're having perpetual cash problems and are constantly resetting your Funds, you're overbuilding your navy. However, if you just want to build little boats, the values you want are BaseResources and BudgetModifier. BaseResources is the strength of your country's economy -- events like Industrial Development and Global Crash modify this. BudgetModifier is how much of that economy you as the navy are getting -- most budget events change this number instead, and if it's too big the game will also get leery. To give yourself more room, crank up BaseResources first, then BudgetModifier.

Just so that I don't have to go hunting through dev logs to find this info again

Saves are now stored in
C:\USER\USERNAME\Documents\My Games\Rule the Waves 3

Note to all: A major update for the save structure is incoming, this guide will stay valid until that update goes mainline. I will have a look at the new file structure then.

you can. there is a major update pending which will change savegame structure but until then you need to edit the owner in the mapdataX.dat file in your savegame folder:

MapAreaXPossessionXOwner=

This is directly above the possession name, if there is no primary nation owner you can directly write in your nation's name. If a primary nation is the owner the bases and fortifications complicate things and you would need to hunt them down in the RTWGameX.bcs file, I do not recommend this.

@tbrsim thanks for the info...i have another question...can we edit the unclaimed nations like we can in dreadnoughts?i would like to take korea rather than waiting for a random event to pop up, but which always pop up for AI germany for some reason...