Confusion about game saving

Raen · #1 November 27th, 2003, 05:20 PM

I have both the full game and the demo. The full game was installed after the demo was.

I've been trying to sell a friend on how good the game is and he got the demo and we played a demo game together. But this morning I'm surprised to discover that our demo game was saved in my main (full) dominions directory. Are you consulting the registry to determine where to save games?

Does this mean there will be a problem with multiple installations of Dom? Suppose I want to host a game and don't want submitted pretenders to overwrite mine?

Or did I accidentally start the full Version when I played him and not the demo?

Confused....

Raen · #2 November 27th, 2003, 07:29 PM

Ok, I just tested this and I'm a bit concerned. Both saved games and gods created with the demo are getting saved in my main dominions directory.

I also don't see any way to specify directories in the command line switches, but hopefully I'm missing something.

As I say, losing all my gods because I'm hosting a PBEM is a rather unpleasant concept.

Saber Cherry · #3 November 27th, 2003, 07:50 PM

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Originally posted by Raen:
Ok, I just tested this and I'm a bit concerned. Both saved games and gods created with the demo are getting saved in my main dominions directory.

I also don't see any way to specify directories in the command line switches, but hopefully I'm missing something.

As I say, losing all my gods because I'm hosting a PBEM is a rather unpleasant concept.

Very interesting. There needs to be an "Other People's Gods" directory, and ideally, support for multiple gods per nation. I didn't know other peoples gods overwrote your own.

[ November 27, 2003, 17:51: Message edited by: Saber Cherry ]

Johan K · #4 November 28th, 2003, 02:13 AM

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I also don't see any way to specify directories in the command line switches, but hopefully I'm missing something.

The save directory can be specified by setting the DOM2_SAVE enivornment variable. It is possible to set data and temp directory too if you really want to.

Catquiet · #5 November 28th, 2003, 10:51 PM

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Originally posted by Saber Cherry:
Very interesting. There needs to be an "Other People's Gods" directory, and ideally, support for multiple gods per nation.

Definitely.

I have been reduced to manually making a copy of my god file whenever I manage to get a decent set of titles.

Raen · #6 November 29th, 2003, 02:27 AM

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Originally posted by Johan K:

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I also don't see any way to specify directories in the command line switches, but hopefully I'm missing something.

The save directory can be specified by setting the DOM2_SAVE enivornment variable. It is possible to set data and temp directory too if you really want to.

But not \newlords, which is really where the problem lies?

Is there some reason that the registry entry was chosen over curdir? Multiple copies of Dom seems to me the most logical way to go....