Patch Improvements

[biekert]

That sounds wise to wait for MP feedback... thinking out loud, perhaps in my games the early SC theory is less palatable because I always set independents to 9. Lower settings for independents make the awake-god strategy more palatable.

[Amos]

Give us Save function pls
Its annoying not being able to play in full screen mode because i need to save outside the game.

[thejeff]

Not sure what you mean by "save outside the game"?

If you're copying the .trn files to return to old turns, then I'm afraid it's working as designed and not likely to change.
I suspect most here would view it as cheating.

That said, it's your game and the --postexec switch and a little scripting should be able to give you that functionality.

If you meant something else, I'm curious what?

[Amos]

I have been asking for Save for years. Why would I stop now?

view it as cheating

I dont know what you mean. How is it cheating? Every modern SP turn based game has Save function.
P.S. Pls dont tell me that this game is MP only.

the --postexec switch and a little scripting should be able to give you that functionality

That kind of defeats my point of playing in Full screen mode.

[thejeff]

Philosophical question, I suppose.
It seems like cheating to me because the game is designed to be played without saves. Lots of things are easily abusable if saves are used.
But as I said, it's SP. Do as you will.

As far as I know, --postexec should be able to call a script that copies the .trn file after every hosting even in Full screen mode. You'd have to rename the file and reload the game manually when you wanted to load a save game, but you should be able to play full screen. I haven't tried it.

[Morkilus]

It's your game, do what you will. But the devs designed it to NOT be the kind of game where you reload to fix your mistakes and fiddle with the random number generator. This is of course a contentious issue among gamers, so don't say that "every game should be x".

I refer you to this thread for some amusing reading, if you can take some potty language.

Qt3

[Amos]

In my view its like censorship. Some one else decides for me what I can or cannot do. Shouldnt it be left to my discretion. You will use it if you want to. If you are against it in principle you dont have to use it. Many ppl do it anyway. Why not make it easier for us?