SEV command line execution

[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.

[Atrocities]

I don't know enough about any of this to really use it. I just wanted to know so that I could run 100 turn AI test for both SE V and SE IV.

[Fyron]

Phoenix-D said:
Well, you could use the batch to call the script, skipping the DOS prompt.

Or you could double click on the script.

[Atrocities]

I just read that SE V has a feature added recently that allows you to execute X amount of turns.