Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

[Taqwus]

The ability to import/export saved games and command files as human-readable text might convince me to fork over some more $. (Command file --> the list of orders for a given player for a given turn). It'd permit insane Perl scripters to come up with complicated scripts to automate complex tasks, such as using a set of rules to add atmosphere converters where necessary (and deciding which facilities to scrap if necessary for making room), for replacing production uniresource facilities with 'liths, and so forth. I'd rather write a set of scripts to queue the commands for me, rather than have to do everything by hand, and it'd reduce the need for an interface overhaul. In addition, the command list stuff may already be largely in place (I'm thinking of simul+PBEM games, where it makes sense for clients to be able to send *only* command lists to the server, rather than change state directly; that way, the server can validate legality and consistency).

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