SE4 Savegame format? - for developers

[Ruatha]

The savegame file is encrypted.
It contains all data for every player in the game, so alot of info changes for every turn.
There is only a small header that's unencrypted.
And you can't turn it off, it's to prevent cheating and it works pretty well.

I'd be interested to know when your app is finished so that I can make the SE4 companion co-work with it.
(Se companion thread)

You can ask Aaron about it next friday on the chat session on #SE4.

[ August 06, 2004, 12:25: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[csebal]

Well, thats sad. I mean the encryption. Maybe in SE5, they'll include some patching mechanism, so you will not have to download a full savegame for every turn, but just the changes made since the Last turn.

Until then, i'll have to live with compressing the savegame.

As for your question, i have no idea when i'll be able to release the tool to the public. I guess we'll do it, when its done

As my 'favorite' game developing Groups would say:
soon (tm) - [this may be misleading unless you are actually playing the MMORPG called EVE-Online]

Its being rewritten at the moment (i use .NET / C#), as the client had some nasty multi-threading problems