SMAC/X Original Faction Selection Window Button

[Dio]

This "HELP" button could appear when you select a faction with SMAC or when you start a scenario both SMAC or SMAX. Four steps are involved in adding this button.

1. First go to the directory containing the game folder for SMAC/X.
2. Then, inside the game folder, open up the text file called "script.txt" and search for a heading called "FACTIONX" if you are using SMAX/Yitzi's most recent patch or "FACTION" if running SMAC.
3. Now underneath this heading should appear a line that contains "#button OTHER." Underneath this line add the following "#button HELP."
4. After adding the line, save the file and this feature will now function.

Attached below are before and after pictures of the faction selection window.

[Buster's Uncle]

What does it do?

[Dio]

It switchs between the blurb and the datalink information on a faction when you start a random game or scenario.

[Mart]

So "script.txt" has a bug, that prevents that help button to appear.
This could be a part of next unofficial patch.

[Yitzi]

So "script.txt" has a bug, that prevents that help button to appear.
This could be a part of next unofficial patch.

It will be, but there's no reason players can't do it sooner (or remove it afterward if they feel it's not a bug).