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Key	Description	Value	When omitted
AIAlternateProductionCreditCutoff	Credit total below which a computer house builds structures and units in alternation instead of together.	integer	1000
AIBuildsWalls	Whether computer houses plan a perimeter wall around their bases.	boolean	yes
AIHateDelays	The frames a computer house waits before picking its first enemy, one entry per difficulty.	list of integers	(empty)
AIIonCannonAPCValue	The ion cannon rating a computer house gives an enemy vehicle that can carry passengers.	list of integers	(empty)
AIIonCannonBaseDefenseValue	The ion cannon rating a computer house gives an enemy IsBaseDefense structure.	list of integers	(empty)
AIIonCannonConYardValue	The ion cannon rating a computer house gives an enemy structure that produces buildings.	list of integers	(empty)
AIIonCannonEngineerValue	The ion cannon rating a computer house gives an enemy engineer.	list of integers	(empty)
AIIonCannonHarvesterValue	The ion cannon rating a computer house gives an enemy harvesting vehicle.	list of integers	(empty)
AIIonCannonHelipadValue	The ion cannon rating a computer house gives an enemy HoverPad structure.	list of integers	(empty)
AIIonCannonMCVValue	The ion cannon rating a computer house gives an enemy vehicle that deploys into a construction yard.	list of integers	(empty)
AIIonCannonPlugValue	The ion cannon rating a computer house gives an enemy IsPlug structure.	list of integers	(empty)
AIIonCannonPowerValue	The ion cannon rating a computer house gives an enemy structure that produces more power than it draws.	list of integers	(empty)
AIIonCannonTempleValue	The ion cannon rating a computer house gives an enemy IsTemple structure.	list of integers	(empty)
AIIonCannonThiefValue	The ion cannon rating a computer house gives an enemy vehicle thief.	list of integers	(empty)
AIIonCannonWarFactoryValue	The ion cannon rating a computer house gives an enemy structure that produces vehicles.	list of integers	(empty)
AircraftFogReveal	Radius in cells that an airborne aircraft with no sight of its own clears of fog.	integer	6
AITriggerFailureWeightDelta	The amount added to an AI trigger's weight each time a team of its first TeamType fails.	floating point	-1
AITriggerSuccessWeightDelta	The amount added to an AI trigger's weight each time a team of its first TeamType succeeds.	floating point	1
AITriggerTrackRecordCoefficient	The multiplier applied to an AI trigger's history term when one of its teams fails.	floating point	1
AIUseTurbineUpgradeProbability	The chance that a computer house answers a power shortfall with a power turbine upgrade instead of a new power plant.	floating point	1
AllowShroudedSubteranneanMoves	Whether a subterranean unit accepts a click on an object standing under the shroud, and follows a rally point into the shroud.	boolean	no
AttackingAircraftSightRange	Radius in cells revealed when a human player's aircraft fires from or at shrouded ground.	integer	5
BaseBiasNo effect	Parsed multiplier that the engine never uses.	floating point	1
BaseDefenseDelay	Minutes during which no house calls up base defenders again against an attacker that a call-up has already covered.	floating point	.25
BaseUnit	The UnitTypes handed out at a multiplayer start, one per house, and counted as a base of their own.	typelist	none
BestLowPowerBuildRateCoefficientNo effect	Parsed best-case low-power build coefficient that the engine never uses.	floating point	.75
BlendedFogNo effect	Parsed choice of fog pattern that makes no visible difference.	boolean	yes
BridgeVoxelMaxNo effect	Parsed debris count that the engine never uses.	integer	3
BuildSpeed	The multiplier that turns an object's cost into its base build time.	floating point	1
BuildupTime	The length of a structure's construction animation, in game minutes.	floating point	.05
CameraRangeNo effect	Parsed distance that the engine never uses.	distance (cells)	9
ChargeToDrainRatio	The exchange rate between a charge-draining superweapon's stored charge and the time its effect runs.	floating point	3
CliffBackImpassability	Mode that turns a cell standing a cliff step below a neighbor into rock.	integer	0
CloakDelay	The time in game minutes an object must wait after it is uncloaked before it may hide again.	floating point	0
CloakingStages	The number of fade stages an object's cloak is measured against.	integer	9
CloseEnough	Distance in cells within which a blocked ground object treats its destination as reached.	distance (cells)	2.5
ConditionRedSparkingProbability	Chance each frame that a critically damaged object starts throwing sparks.	floating point	.02
ConditionYellowSparkingProbability	Chance each frame that a damaged object starts throwing sparks.	floating point	.01
CraterLevel	How many cells around a meteor impact are slumped into a crater.	integer	4
Crew	The InfantryType that ordinarily leaves a destroyed or sold object as its survivor.	class	none
CrewEscape	The chance that a destroyed vehicle's crew steps out as an infantry survivor.	floating point	.5
CurleyShuffle	Whether an attacking aircraft moves to a new firing position after every second shot.	boolean	no
DamageDelay	Minutes between the damage ticks a house takes while it is short of power.	floating point	1
DamageToFirestormDamageCoefficient	How much firestorm charge a raised wall loses per point of damage aimed at one of its sections.	floating point	0.1
Disguise	The InfantryType whose name and artwork a disguised soldier shows to everyone else.	class	none
DissolveUnfilledTeamDelay	The frames an empty team outside a campaign waits before dissolving itself.	integer	5000
DropPodAngle	Drop-pod descent angle in radians, clamped to 22.5-67.5 degrees when rules load.	floating point	Not documented
DropPodHeight	Initial drop-pod altitude above the landing cell, measured in leptons.	integer	Not documented
DropPodInfantryMaximum	Upper bound for the number of infantry requested by the Drop Pods superweapon.	integer	Not documented
DropPodInfantryMinimum	Lower bound for the number of infantry requested by the Drop Pods superweapon.	integer	Not documented
DropPodSpeed	Minimum per-frame movement speed for a descending drop pod.	integer	Not documented
DropPodWeapon	Selects the WeaponType used by airborne drop-pod effects.	class	none
DumbMyEffectivenessCoefficientNo effect	A house-wide replacement for MyEffectivenessCoefficient that no house ever uses.	floating point	0
DumbTargetDistanceCoefficientNo effect	A house-wide replacement for TargetDistanceCoefficient that no house ever uses.	floating point	0
DumbTargetEffectivenessCoefficientNo effect	A house-wide replacement for TargetEffectivenessCoefficient that no house ever uses.	floating point	0
DumbTargetSpecialThreatCoefficientNo effect	A house-wide replacement for TargetSpecialThreatCoefficient that no house ever uses.	floating point	0
DumbTargetStrengthCoefficientNo effect	A house-wide replacement for TargetStrengthCoefficient that no house ever uses.	floating point	0
EnemyHouseThreatBonus	Added to a candidate's threat score when the candidate belongs to the house's declared enemy.	floating point	0
Engineer	Whether a soldier restores and captures structures, or which InfantryType a destroyed or sold structure can hand back as an engineer.	class	none
EngineerCaptureLevel	The fraction of maximum strength at or below which an engineer's cursor over a non-allied structure is the enter cursor.	floating point	1
EngineerDamageNo effect	Parsed engineer damage figure that the engine never uses.	floating point	0
ExplosiveVoxelDebrisNo effect	Parsed VoxelAnimType list that the engine never uses.	typelist	(empty)
FillEarliestTeamProbability	The percent chance that the next vehicle, infantryman or aircraft chosen goes to the oldest waiting team, one entry per difficulty.	list of integers	(empty)
FineDiffControlNo effect	Parsed flag that the engine never uses.	boolean	no
FlashFrameTime	Frames between repaints of a flashing radar blip.	integer	7
FlightLevel	The cruising altitude a type flies at, or the rules-wide altitude used by anything that names none of its own.	integer	500
GameSpeedBias	The multiplier on every house's build time and ground movement speed.	floating point	1
GDIFirestormGenerator	The BuildingType whose loss discharges a house's firestorm superweapon and brings down its wall.	class	none
GDIGateOne	The BuildingType that joins a brick or sandbag wall running east to west.	class	none
GDIGateTwo	The BuildingType that joins a brick or sandbag wall running north to south.	class	none
GDIHunterSeeker	Seeds the first side's HunterSeeker.	class	none
GDIPowerPlant	Seeds the first side's RegularPowerPlant.	class	none
GDIPowerTurbine	Seeds the first side's PowerTurbine.	class	none
GrowthRateNo effect	Parsed rate that the engine never uses.	floating point	2
HarvesterDumpRate	Minutes a docked harvester spends handing over each stored unit.	floating point	.016
HarvesterLoadRate	Game frames per step of a harvester's loading cycle, which lifts one unit every nine steps.	integer	2
HarvesterUnit	UnitTypes the engine treats as a house's harvesters when it counts or replaces them.	typelist	none
HoverAcceleration	Time in minutes a hovering unit takes to work its throttle up to full.	floating point	.03
HoverBob	Period in minutes of the vertical bob a hovering unit performs.	floating point	30
HoverBoost	Multiplier on the throttle ceiling of a hovering unit whose path continues straight ahead.	floating point	1.3
HoverBrake	Time in minutes a hovering unit takes to close its throttle again.	floating point	.03
HoverDampen	Fraction of its vertical motion a hovering unit keeps from one frame to the next.	floating point	.8
HoverHeight	Height in leptons that a hovering unit rides above the ground.	integer	120
HunterSeekerAscentSpeed	Leptons a hunter seeker climbs each frame once it is airborne.	integer	0
HunterSeekerDescendProximity	Horizontal distance from its destination, in leptons, at which a hunter seeker starts diving onto its target.	integer	0
HunterSeekerDescentSpeed	Leptons a hunter seeker drops each frame.	integer	0
HunterSeekerDetonateProximity	Horizontal distance from its destination, in leptons, at which a hunter seeker detonates.	integer	0
HunterSeekerEmergeSpeed	Leptons a hunter seeker climbs each frame while it is still lifting off.	integer	0
IceBreakingWeight	Vehicle weight at or above which crossing ice breaks it open into water.	floating point	4
IceCrackingWeight	Vehicle weight at or above which crossing ice cracks it.	floating point	2
IonLightningDamage	The raw damage each ion storm lightning bolt delivers.	integer	500
IonLightningFrequency	The approximate percent chance, on each frame of an ion storm, that the storm tries a lightning bolt.	floating point	25
IonLightningRandomness	The percent chance that an ion storm lightning bolt strikes a random cell instead of an object.	integer	75
IonStormDurationNo effect	Parsed storm length that the engine never uses.	integer	20
IonStormWarhead	The WarheadType every ion storm lightning bolt detonates with.	class	none
IonStormWarning	Seconds of warning between a scripted ion storm being ordered and the storm breaking.	integer	31
IRepairRate	The interval between servicing steps inside a hospital, and an armory's promotion delay.	floating point	.016
IRepairStep	The strength one repair step restores to an infantry.	integer	1
LargeVisceroid	Makes a UnitType behave as a large visceroid, or picks the UnitType two merging small visceroids become.	class	none
LeptonsPerSightIncrease	Leptons of height that earn a vehicle, infantryman or structure ten percent more sight range.	integer	50
MaximumAIDefensiveTeams	The number of defensive teams above which a house passes over its defensive AI triggers, one entry per difficulty.	list of integers	(empty)
MaximumQueuedObjects	The most entries a production queue may hold.	integer	5
MaxVeinholeGrowth	Ceiling on the veins one veinhole monster may cover.	integer	1000
MaxWaypointPathLength	The most waypoints one waypoint path can hold.	integer	15
MinimumAIDefensiveTeams	The number of defensive teams a house must hold before any non-defensive AI trigger may spring, one entry per difficulty.	list of integers	(empty)
MinProductionSpeed	The floor the low-power production multiplier is held to.	floating point	.5
MissileROTVar	How far a homing projectile's rate of turn swings above its nominal value.	floating point	.25
MissileSpeedVarNo effect	Parsed fraction that the engine never uses.	floating point	.25
MultiMCV		boolean	no
MultiplayerAICM	The percentage of its starting money added to each computer house outside a campaign, one entry per difficulty.	list of integers	(empty)
MultipleFactory	The build-time multiplier each factory past the first applies to production of its category.	floating point	1
MultipleFactoryCap		integer	0
MyEffectivenessCoefficientDefault	The MyEffectivenessCoefficient every object type falls back on.	floating point	0
NodAdvancedPower	Seeds the second side's AdvancedPowerPlant.	class	none
NodAIBuildsWalls	Seeds the second side's AIBuildsWalls.	boolean	yes
NodGateOne	The BuildingType that joins a Nod wall running east to west.	class	none
NodGateTwo	The BuildingType that joins a Nod wall running north to south.	class	none
NodHunterSeeker	Seeds the second side's HunterSeeker.	class	none
NodRegularPower	Seeds the second side's RegularPowerPlant.	class	none
PadAircraft	The AircraftTypes bundled into the price of the pad they dock at.	typelist	(empty)
ParatrooperNo effect	Parsed InfantryType that the engine never uses.	class	none
PilotNo effect	Parsed InfantryType that the engine never uses.	class	none
PlacementDelay	Minutes a factory waits before trying again when the object it finished cannot leave yet.	floating point	.05
PrerequisiteBarracks	The BuildingTypes that satisfy a BARRACKS prerequisite.	list of BuildingTypes	(empty)
PrerequisiteFactory	The BuildingTypes that satisfy a FACTORY prerequisite.	list of BuildingTypes	(empty)
PrerequisiteGDIFactory	The BuildingTypes that satisfy a GDIFACTORY prerequisite.	list of BuildingTypes	(empty)
PrerequisiteNodFactory	The BuildingTypes that satisfy a NODFACTORY prerequisite.	list of BuildingTypes	(empty)
PrerequisitePower	The BuildingTypes that satisfy a POWER prerequisite.	list of BuildingTypes	(empty)
PrerequisiteRadar	The BuildingTypes that satisfy a RADAR prerequisite.	list of BuildingTypes	(empty)
PrerequisiteTech	The BuildingTypes that satisfy a TECH prerequisite.	list of BuildingTypes	(empty)
RadarCombatFlashTime	Frames a damaged object's radar blip keeps flashing for.	integer	21
RadarEventColorSpeed	Fraction of the blend between a radar event's two colors covered each time the screen is redrawn.	floating point	.05
RadarEventDurations	The frames a radar event stays in play, one entry per event kind.	list of integers	(empty)
RadarEventMinRadius	Pixels of the radar pane a shrinking radar event box stops at.	integer	5
RadarEventRotationSpeed	Radians a radar event's box turns each time the screen is redrawn while it closes in.	floating point	.1
RadarEventSpeed	Pixels of the radar pane a radar event's box loses from its radius each time the screen is redrawn.	floating point	1
RadarEventSuppressionDistances	The cells within which a radar event causes a later event of its kind to be dropped, one entry per event kind.	list of integers	(empty)
RadarEventVisibilityDurations	The frames a settled radar event stays drawn, one entry per event kind.	list of integers	(empty)
RecheckPrerequisites		boolean	no
RefundPercent	The fraction of an object's price handed back when a human player's house sells it.	floating point	.5
ReloadRate	The interval between the ammunition points a rearming building hands the object docked with it.	floating point	.05
RepairBay	The BuildingType that a vehicle on the Repair mission, or a damaged computer aircraft, heads for to be repaired.	class	none
RepairPercent	The share of an object's price that a full repair charges.	floating point	.25
RepairRate	The interval between structure repair steps, and the interval self-healing falls back to.	floating point	.016
RepairStep	The strength one repair step restores to a structure, vehicle or aircraft.	integer	5
RevealByHeight	Whether high ground between an object and a cell blocks that cell from being revealed.	boolean	yes
RevealTriggerRadius	Radius in cells that the reveal-around-waypoint trigger action uncovers.	integer	5
ScrapVoxelDebrisNo effect	Parsed VoxelAnimType that the engine never uses.	class	none
SelfHealCap	The share of maximum strength at which self-healing stops.	floating point	-1
SelfHealRate	The interval between self-healing ticks.	floating point	-1
SelfHealStep	The strength one self-healing tick restores.	integer	1
SeparateAircraft	Whether pad aircraft are bought separately from the pads they dock at.	boolean	no
SmallVisceroid	Makes a UnitType behave as a small visceroid, or picks the UnitType that Tiberium deaths spawn.	class	none
SpotlightAcceleration	Radians per frame by which a sweeping spotlight's turn rate rises and falls.	floating point	.005
SpotlightAngle	Width of the arc a sweeping spotlight covers before reversing, in radians.	floating point	20
SpotlightLocationRadius	Distance ahead of a structure, in leptons, that its spotlight beam is aimed at.	integer	1000
SpotlightMovementRadius	Distance in leptons behind a structure at which its spotlight's sweep pivots, and the range beyond which a followed target is dropped.	integer	2000
SpotlightRadius	Base radius, in leptons, within which a spotlight notices an intruder.	integer	175
SpotlightSpeed	Turn rate a spotlight beam builds toward, in radians per frame.	floating point	.05
Stray	Distance in cells a team member may drift from the team before it is ordered back.	distance (cells)	2
SurvivorDivisor	The divisor applied to a structure's cost when its number of survivors is worked out.	integer	100
SurvivorRate	The fraction of a structure's cost that decides how many survivors leave it.	floating point	.5
SuspendDelay	Minutes of game time a team stays suspended after a base attack emptied it.	floating point	2
SuspendPriority	The TeamType priority a team must reach to survive a base attack.	integer	20
TalkBubbleTime	How long a scripted talk bubble stays above the unit that is speaking.	floating point	5
TargetDistanceCoefficientDefault	The TargetDistanceCoefficient that vehicle, infantry, aircraft and structure types fall back on.	floating point	0
TargetEffectivenessCoefficientDefault	The TargetEffectivenessCoefficient that vehicle, infantry, aircraft and structure types fall back on.	floating point	0
TargetSpecialThreatCoefficientDefault	The TargetSpecialThreatCoefficient that vehicle, infantry, aircraft and structure types fall back on.	floating point	0
TargetStrengthCoefficientDefault	The TargetStrengthCoefficient that vehicle, infantry, aircraft and structure types fall back on.	floating point	0
TeamDelays	The frames a house waits between team creation passes, one entry per difficulty.	list of integers	(empty)
Technician	The InfantryType a crewed object leaves as its survivor when its house has no side, and sometimes when it is armed.	class	none
TiberiumHeal	Whether an object mends itself while standing on Tiberium, and how often every such object is mended.	floating point	.0167
TiberiumTransmogrifyNo effect	Parsed number that the engine never uses.	integer	Context-dependent
TireVoxelDebrisNo effect	Parsed VoxelAnimType that the engine never uses.	class	none
TotalAITeamCap	Team count at which a house stops starting teams from AI triggers, one entry per difficulty.	list of integers	(empty)
TrackedDownhill	Speed multiplier for a tracked vehicle stepping to a lower cell.	floating point	1
TrackedUphill	Speed multiplier for a tracked vehicle stepping to a higher cell.	floating point	1
TreeFlammability	Chance a burning terrain object sets fire to each unburnt terrain object beside it.	floating point	.1
TreeStrength	Maximum strength a TerrainType takes when its own section sets none.	integer	25
TunnelSpeed	Multiplier on how fast a subterranean unit sinks and rises, and divisor of its dig-in wait.	floating point	1
URepairRate	The interval between the repair steps a service depot applies to the vehicle or aircraft docked with it.	floating point	.016
UseMinDefenseRule	Whether a house must hold its minimum number of defensive teams before any other AI trigger may spring.	boolean	yes
VeinDamage	Raw damage a vein cell deals on every second frame.	integer	2
VeinholeGrowthRate	Game frames between one veinhole monster's growth steps.	integer	100
VeinholeMonsterStrengthNo effect	Parsed strength figure that the engine never uses.	integer	10000
VeinholeShrinkRate	Game frames between the withering steps of a destroyed monster's field.	integer	100
VeinholeTypeClass	TerrainType every veinhole monster in the scenario reports as its own.	class	none
VeteranArmor	Damage taken by an object holding the STRONGER ability is divided by this value plus one.	floating point	1
VeteranCap	The highest experience total a credited kill may leave an object at.	floating point	1
VeteranCombat	Weapon damage from an object holding the firepower ability is multiplied by this value plus one.	floating point	1
VeteranRatio	The multiple of its own cost an object must destroy to earn one point of experience.	floating point	10
VeteranROF	Reload delay of an object holding the rate of fire ability is divided by this value plus one.	floating point	1
VeteranSight	Sight range of an object holding the sight ability is multiplied by one more than this value.	floating point	1
VeteranSpeed	Movement speed of an object holding the faster ability is multiplied by one more than this value.	floating point	1
WallBuildSpeedCoefficient	The multiplier applied to a wall's build time.	floating point	.5
WallTower	The BuildingType that joins a brick or sandbag wall run from any direction.	class	none
WeedCapacity	Units of weed a house can hold.	integer	0
WheeledDownhill	Speed multiplier for a vehicle that is not tracked stepping to a lower cell.	floating point	1
WheeledUphill	Speed multiplier for a vehicle that is not tracked stepping to a higher cell.	floating point	1
WindDirection	The facing that smoke and gas particles drift toward.	integer	-1
WorstLowPowerBuildRateCoefficientNo effect	Parsed worst-case low-power build coefficient that the engine never uses.	floating point	.3
ZoomInFactor	How far the tactical view magnifies when a trigger zooms it in.	floating point	2

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