New version of catgod for v3.08

[Evil Dave]

I've updated catgod to include the new nations in v3.08.

Download new copies for Linux/Intel and Macintosh OS X/PPC.

I'm sure Windows players will be glad to know that there's a Windows port of catgod coming. It mostly works, but we're trying to track down an intermittent bug.

[lch]

Uhhh, okay so I found out what this catgod program does. It reads pretender files, very cool!

But I have doubts of running binaries which I haven't compiled myself.

[Evil Dave]

Oops! I editted my post to add the link to the documentation.

Let me talk to the devs about a public source release. There's really nothing special about how catgod works, and other people have figured out how to read Dominions' files. But... the game files aren't strongly protected, and ways catgod reads the pretender files could be reused to cheat in MP.

[lch]

I agree, the abuse potential is high, and as I heard there have already been some cases of it. I like to see source because then others can pick up a project if the original developer loses interest in it, or if others want to build something on top of it. Being able to read your old pretender files is such a darn important missing feature that I've been asking for it whenever possible. Thanks for the program!

[Caduceus]

Good work. I look forward to a Windows version at some point. I need to be spoon-fed, due to the fact that I am not completely computer literate, like others around here, so a Windows interface/GUI would be great.

[Arralen]

I'm working on a GUI, and a windoze version of catgod would greatly speed up the process - I don't have a Linux box available, therefore I can just guess what may work cross-platform and do lots of reading while actually few coding atm. (and I'm busy with RL issues and was with testing Dom3.08, what doesn't exactly help, either).

[Gandalf Parker]

Is this still the latest version of CatGod?

I had a request on another forum. Well actually, a complaint. Someone had loaded a cbm god to a non-cbm game generating a discussion of whether or not to roll everyone back or just tell him to try with the default he got. His complaint was "Its too bad the game doesnt check that" which of course I took as a challenge.

OK I figured out a way to check gods prior to game start by starting a second game and running it thru one hosting then reading the messages. But thats kindof klunky.

I just tried the copy of CatGod I have against some new pretenders sent to a game. It still does what its meant to do but with lots of unknowns at the end.
Unknowns: 298 (12a), 8 (8) 36865 (9001) 45863 (b327) 50257 (c451) 18804 (49
74) 30889 (78a9) 12345 (3039)

Can CatGod "see" mods? Is that what some of those are? With some experimentation can I pin down which of those means cbm was used? That would be a much cleaner way of checking.

[lch]

If you look at the posts that Evil Dave has made then you'll notice that the newest version for v3.20 has been released in another thread. And there was another one for 3.14 in the meantime. His sig links to his homepage where the newest version can be found in any case.

[Gandalf Parker]

Thanks for that. I will shift my question there as soon as I have a free minute.

[chrispedersen]

gandalf, if you ask, can you ask him to make one change
it would be nice to have a command line option

/auction

in which case, the only thing that gets reported is nation,
and points remaining. For example:

early_mictlan 7
early_arco 3
etc