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Originally Posted by DRG
This is exactly what Game Preferences.ini does now. It stores that info and more based on what your settings were on shutdown the last time and there is nothing in the game code that would cause a campaign to override them . As Andy said the only thing that can override those is a PBEM and this can be easily tested. Change the preferences setting then save a scenario. Reset the preferences to normal then open the scenario and you'll see the reset preference settings and a campaign is just a series of linked scenarios
Everyone plays the game a little differently. There is no one "correct" preferences settings but we recommend setting them at 100% and if anyone finds that doesn't quite work for them then by all means adjust them but what may be the best setting for a newbie won't be the best for an experienced player and that's why if a scenario designer thinks their scenario should have adjustments made to the preferences they need to suggest those recommendations in the initial briefing. That way players know whats been done.
As well......... I'm having a difficult time understanding how on one hand you can say...."It is my opinion, and after many years... playing video games, that a configuration file, a .cfg will cause me or anyone else for that matter, to complain of a game not playing correctly, of being buggy. ".... then go on to make a case for including one..... or am I reading this wrong ?
Don
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Yes. You are reading my several posts very, very wrong. I make a case for a cfg file because the current one is static, it does not allow designers to take advantage of the Preferences. Case in point the current scenario that this thread is intended to discuss. And, in an earlier post this comment:"Well one very good reason is if preferences were set and saved by scenarios we'd be swamped with "bug" reports from people saying their game isn't playing correctly when it was a scenario designer that jacked them around for his scenario then they started a regular game and forgot to re-set the preferences." So, my cfg proposal was in response to your claim that you'd be swamped with bug reports when in fact after years of playing games with cfg files I have yet been a party to a game community where a bug was reported because of a cfg file.
So, because there is no one correct Preference setting, let the designer make his or her game play better by setting preferences by scenario. The player can still revert back to default if he or she wants too.
Anyway, you said NO. I'd like to get back to talking about the scenario, that is what this thread is intended. And, it is 20:22h and dinner is ready.
Adios amigo
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