Nope it is not needed. You can declare Activities in the same way as Scenes.

GAAAAHHHHH!!!!

I put activities in it's onw data module called ZZZ to ensure everything was loaded before it, and it still can't find anything

Happend to me too. I hope it gets easier in the next build.

Maybe they will be able to script it so that activities.ini ALWAYS loads last. That would be a better way.

Just remember, there's no association between .rte files anymore unless you make it. That means you'd have to reference to that rte file to get the stuff from it. Not sure if it's the same for activities, but just a heads-up.

Even if they remove the barricade between the .rte's for activities.ini, it will still be very hard to install mods for noobs. You'll have to install the mod.rte and copy&paste some lines in the activities.ini or maybe even overwrite some files in the base.rte.

Editing Activities files is supposed to be an advanced user option. It is not required to play the game.

Like actors/weapons, isn't it. The difference is that you can INSTALL mods easily, but mods with activities.ini you can't just extract them.

Dropships spawn every 2 seconds on death, and so far, that's the only thing I've done. Once I get some good, balanced mods, I'm going to modify the actors and weapons.

I think that the activities.ini should just stay with each user. Unless you don't use any mod actors or weapons, it really can't be shared, even as part of a mod pack. Just provide a nice easy FAQ somewhere that tells everyone how to edit the file and where to put it so that previous errors don't pop up, then let everyone do their own. But I like the addition of the file, anyway.

I tried that, FF. Be careful, or you'll have DS's gibbing their own engines.

I made dropships spawn every 8 seconds and filled a scene up with them and skeletons gibs.

Every 2 seconds makes for a fairly good balance between max enemies and enemies killing themselves, though I might make it 3 seconds to eliminate a bit more of the carnage.

Alenth, of course, tried 2 milliseconds. I'm pretty sure it didn't end well. Or start well, for that matter.

Anybody ever think of this?
All actors in Base.rte in a neverending war, AKA it drops people on your team, too.
Hoewever, again, they only have Base.rte stuff, so it's only the cheap things you wouldn't spend much on anyway that comes down, and thus big guns go into your hands.
Quite cool to just go to the buy menu, hit the buy button and scroll around the map watching AI do stuff.
EDIT: Oops, posted a bugged version. This one works.

That could be good for a survival type map where you get reinforcements at certain intervals.

So, how exactly do you make a custom activity with another mod, different starting AI, and ect.