[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Innocence:

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Originally posted by Johan K:
I believe the most common use for this info would be cheating.

However, that still leaves the possibility of an ASCII export feature. If Illwinter would implement this we'd have all the data we need and the file-security wouldn't need to be compomised.

Do Illwinter read these forums or should I rather mail them directly?

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That was Illwinter you were answering. The programmer side in fact (which reads all, but Posts rarely).

The game does do ascii dumps of some info. There is the stats dump...
Statistics for game 'Cradle_and_RandMod' turn 1
Abysia played this turn
Man played this turn
Ulm played this turn
Arcoscephale played this turn
Marignon played this turn
Pangaea played this turn
Jotunheim played this turn

And there is the scoredump, which is an html ascii file. At the top is...
Dominions II Scores, Cradle_and_RandMod turn 2
and then the numeric scores of the players as far as armies, forts, dominion, etc

As you can see, both files have the turn number in them. And both files exist because we asked. Its true that Illwinter is unlikely to offer a full dump but if we can show a real (safe) use for some info then we can probably get it added to one file or the other.

As I see it, the stats file is meant as info for the host and game management. The scoredump is more the place for player info about the game. So as far as I can tell it might work to request that the stat info also include map name and mod names.

Anything else? Something with a reason, short of dump it all and let me play with it. Im a hacker and would love it but I understand not getting it.

[ May 13, 2004, 13:31: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]