SEV command line execution

[Atrocities]

Thanks Geo, and SJ.

I assume there is a function or a batch file that you can use to execute X amount of turns? If so where can it be downloaded from?

[Suicide Junkie]

The trick is waiting long enough for SE4 to finish processing one turn before your script kicks it again.

I'm pretty sure somebody wrote one for the AI competition thing.

[Fyron]

No tricks are necessary; the script just has to wait for the SE4 process to exit. Most exec functions in programming languages have a way to do that directly. Dunno about batch, but its a 3 line python script (plus the import os line). I forget exactly what the command line parameters are, so you'll have to put the exact commands in. Assuming you have python installed, set the range to the number of turns you want to wait, save as something.py in the se4 folder, and run it (DOS prompt is easiest way).

Code:

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import os

for i in range(20):

  print "Executing turn " + str(i+1) + "..."

  os.spawnl(os.P_WAIT, 'se4.exe', 'savegame', 'player', 'password')

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[Suicide Junkie]

Sigh, Fy.

Just running with command line parameters is trivial.
Running multiple turns one after the other is the hard part.

Using Python vs a Batch file, for example.
And of course, difficulty is relative.

[se5a]

that code should run multiple turns.

screw batch files, python FTW

[Fyron]

I don't know why anyone would want to do something like this with DOS batch... Doing pretty much anything in DOS batch is just asking for trouble. Python is several orders of magnitude easier to learn than batch.

[Phoenix-D]

Well, you could use the batch to call the script, skipping the DOS prompt.