Now there are only a few thousand humans left alive that must struggle to survive under the threat of the infection. The name 'Reflector' comes from the introspection mechanism used by the augmented process to locate and invoke the TAB components within itself.They Are Billions is a strategy game in a distant future about building and managing human colonies after a zombie apocalypse destroyed almost all of human kind. The main TABSAT application communicates with this process, and handles tidying the Reflector away once it is no longer needed or TABSAT is closed. In the action of subverting TAB, the Reflector component is automatically temporarily copied into your TAB install directory and launched in a second process which is augmented with TAB components. TABSAT therefore ironically creates a zombie instance of TAB to then coerce into helping extract and repack save files for our needs, before terminating it. TAB saves are Zipped and encrypted with user-unknown passwords, yet TAB itself evidently can access these files. We also use the 3rd party as found in the TAB install. This tool is formed of 2 C# projects, the main application: TABSAT.exe and a sister binary TABReflector.exe that is stored compressed within the main assembly. There is also a simple ideas list of some considered changes. bat file here that can be modified to do so (and is also for seeing console output should you be experiencing other issues), and serves as an example for creating your own shortcut or integrating with a launcher.Ī second path argument can be passed to provide a non-default TAB saves location.įor more information about the goals of this project, please see TABSAT.txt.įor reporting bugs or providing suggestions (Feature Requests), please use the GitHub Issues system. via Origin, you will need to pass TABSAT the path to your TAB install as a command line argument. Guide to the Save Modification Features that make the game easier/different/harder, as well as the Auto-Backup functionality.ĭownload a Release and launch TABSAT.exe to be presented with the GUI (Graphical User Interface):įor those who purchased TAB outside of Steam, e.g.
Restarting a game save to day 0, to replay a rare layout, or to try a different strategy.Removing the relatively new Mutants from the otherwise-Classic 800% difficulty Survival mode option.
Enabling playing with the Caustic Lands map generation (more Giants, Mutants, Uber-VOD and resources distribution) while having the terrain tiles & sound theme of Frozen Highlands, or Desert Wastelands, etc.This tool is intended to help players backup, restore, and modify their save games. TABSAT - They Are Billions Save Automation Tool
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