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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	Lets a computer house close its base plan with the node that runs the perimeter wall planner.	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 one of its teams fails.	floating point	-1
AITriggerSuccessWeightDelta	The amount added to an AI trigger's weight each time one of its teams 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 named "GDI" answers a power shortfall with a turbine upgrade rather than another power plant.	floating point	1
AllowShroudedSubteranneanMoves	Whether a subterranean unit accepts a click on an object standing under the shroud.	boolean	no
AttackingAircraftSightRange	Radius in cells revealed when a player-controlled aircraft fires from or at shrouded ground.	integer	5
BaseBiasNo effect	Parsed multiplier that the engine never uses.	floating point	1
BaseDefenseDelay	Minutes an attacker is ignored after it has already drawn a full base defense response.	floating point	.25
BaseUnit	The UnitType handed to each house at a multiplayer start and counted as a base of its own.	class	none
BestLowPowerBuildRateCoefficientNo effect	Parsed best-case low-power build coefficient that the engine never uses.	floating point	.75
BlendedFogNo effect	Parsed flag whose branches are unreachable.	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 picks a fresh firing position between shots.	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	The house-wide stand-in for MyEffectivenessCoefficient on a house that owns no threat rating node.	floating point	0
DumbTargetDistanceCoefficientNo effect	The house-wide stand-in for TargetDistanceCoefficient on a house that owns no threat rating node.	floating point	0
DumbTargetEffectivenessCoefficientNo effect	The house-wide stand-in for TargetEffectivenessCoefficient on a house that owns no threat rating node.	floating point	0
DumbTargetSpecialThreatCoefficientNo effect	The house-wide stand-in for TargetSpecialThreatCoefficient on a house that owns no threat rating node.	floating point	0
DumbTargetStrengthCoefficientNo effect	The house-wide stand-in for TargetStrengthCoefficient on a house that owns no threat rating node.	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 structure hands 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
EngineerDamage	A figure the rules parser stores for engineer damage that no gameplay path consults.	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 folded into every house's build-time and ground-speed figures.	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	The type created by a hunter-seeker superweapon fired by a house acting as GDI.	class	none
GDIPowerPlant	The BuildingType a computer house named "GDI" inserts to cover a power shortfall.	class	none
GDIPowerTurbine	The BuildingType a computer house named "GDI" inserts to cover a power shortfall while it owns a power plant with a free upgrade slot.	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 between the animation ticks of a harvester taking on a load.	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	Ten times this value is the chance in 1001 that an ion storm calls down a lightning bolt on a frame.	floating point	25
IonLightningRandomness	The percentage of ion storm lightning bolts that fall on a random cell rather than on an object.	integer	75
IonStormDurationNo effect	Parsed storm length that the engine never uses.	integer	20
IonStormWarhead	Selects 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 an object ten per cent 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	Number of markers a player may place into one waypoint path.	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
MultiplayerAICM	The percentage of its own starting money added to each computer house outside a campaign, one entry per difficulty.	list of integers	(empty)
MultipleFactory	The speed-up each factory past the first gives to production of its category.	floating point	1
MyEffectivenessCoefficientDefault	The MyEffectivenessCoefficient every object type falls back on.	floating point	0
NodAdvancedPower	The BuildingType every computer house except one named "GDI" inserts to cover a power shortfall once it can build it.	class	none
NodAIBuildsWalls	Lets a computer house named "Nod" close its base plan with the node that runs the perimeter wall planner.	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	The type created by a hunter-seeker superweapon fired by any house not acting as GDI.	class	none
NodRegularPower	The BuildingType every computer house except one named "GDI" inserts to cover a power shortfall.	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 frame.	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 frame.	floating point	.1
RadarEventSpeed	Pixels of the radar pane a radar event's box loses from its radius each frame.	floating point	1
RadarEventSuppressionDistances	The cells within which a radar event swallows a later event of its kind, 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)
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 a vehicle or aircraft heads for when it is ordered 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 between self-healing steps.	floating point	.016
RepairStep	The strength one repair step restores to a structure, vehicle or aircraft.	integer	5
RevealByHeight	Whether high ground between a looker 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
SeparateAircraft	Stops a helipad coming with a free aircraft and pricing itself around one.	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 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 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 every object type falls back on.	floating point	0
TargetEffectivenessCoefficientDefault	The TargetEffectivenessCoefficient every object type falls back on.	floating point	0
TargetSpecialThreatCoefficientDefault	The TargetSpecialThreatCoefficient every object type falls back on.	floating point	0
TargetStrengthCoefficientDefault	The TargetStrengthCoefficient every object type falls 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 that leaves a civilian object, and occasionally an armed one, in place of the ordinary crew.	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	Unchanged
TireVoxelDebrisNo effect	Parsed VoxelAnimType that the engine never uses.	class	none
TotalAITeamCap	The number of live teams a house may hold before its AI triggers stop springing, 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 is built from.	class	none
VeteranArmor	Damage taken by an object holding the armor 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 this value plus one.	floating point	1
VeteranSpeed	Movement speed of an object holding the faster ability is multiplied by this value plus one.	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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