All of the statistics for units and buildings etc. in Rise of Nations is held in open standard files in your game directory. The only problem with this is that they are not meant to be read easily by people.
Fortunately, the nice techie people at Infidels have produced a formatting files that will turn the computer data file into a readable one.
Follow the instructions below to unlock all the game data
The file that contains the unit data is:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Rise of Nations\Data\unitrules.xml
The links at the bottom of the page will show you the text of the stylesheet. You will have to paste the code into the file described before following the rest of these instructions
1. Locate the data file and put a copy of it somewhere where you want to use it.
2. Save the stylesheet to the same location that you copied the data file to
3. Finally you have to edit the unitrules.xml file. Use notepad to do this, you can just open notepad and then drag the file on to it.
Add the following text as a new second line
<?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='unitrules.xsl'?>
Save the file and exit.
You should now be able to just double-click on your edited (xml) file to view the data in your browser. If for some reason you can't then right-click it and choose Open With.. and select your web browser (eg. Internet Explorer)
There is an alternative stylesheet at the bottom of this page that displays some more of the raw data. It's called unitrules2.xsl so either save it as unitrules.xsl to replace the simple one or change the link in the xml document to:
<?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='unitrules2.xsl'?>
In this transformation multiply the cost by 10. Times are expressed as 1/15s of a second. When I learn more about XSL transformations I will refine it so it looks better.
Use exactly the same procedure with the other data files.
Make copies of the following datafiles located in the same place as the unitrules.xml file
buildingrules.xml Data on all the games buildings.
craftrules.xml Craft information
resourcerules.xml Rare resoources
techrules.xml Technology information
Use the corresponding stylesheets here
buildingrules.xsl: Add the line <?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='buildingrules.xsl'?> to the buildingrules.xml file
crafrules.xsl: Add the line <?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='craftrules.xsl'?> to the craftrules.xml file
resourcerules.xsl: Add the line <?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='resourcerules.xsl'?> to the resourcerules.xml file
techrules.xsl Add the line <?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='techrules.xsl'?> to the techrules.xml file