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| BlanketTheif's Awesome Turn Archives; A Really Unique Opportunity | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 7 2012, 07:35 AM (1,867 Views) | |
| frosted | Oct 7 2012, 07:35 AM Post #1 |
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So BlanketThief has a pretty ridiculously awesome turn archive script. He just sent me the archive of my game with HeatEXTEND and I'm impressed. I'm pretty sure that it should have every 2h and trn file for both players for every turn. What does that mean? Well, not only is every turn saved but all of the exact orders are as well. It's pretty frigging awesome and honestly it might be the first opportunity in the history of dom3 to look over as many games in as much detail. Every turn's orders from every player has been saved and archived. What this means is that if both players give consent, we can send out the turn archive to players and we have the opportunity to put together some really awesome content in the form of AARs, game analysis, critiques, etc. These could be awesome, interesting, funny, and a great tool for learning and improving. INSTRUCTIONS BlanketTheif has the entire game zipped up in a rar file. Each turn gets its own folder. Each folder contains both players 2h and trn file for the turn. Step 1: Open the Dominions Save game directory. Step 2: Copy every folder in your save directory into a backup folder. Step 3: Extract your tourney archive to the save game directory You should end up with something like: /dominions3/savedgames .../1/ .../2/ .../3/ Now open up dominions, and hit "play existing game", every turn in your game should be listed as a separate game in the list. Just select one and hit play. Bang, there's he game with all your orders, just as they were before you hit end turn! Once you're done. Go back, move all the folders out - put your other game directories back in and you should be good to go! I know not everyone will have the time and patience to do an AAR or something. But hopefully people will make good use of this, really unique opportunity. Maybe some people will be interested in and willing to put up their game archives for critiquing. There's a lot that tons of people could learn from that (both the person who owned the game, and other's who might be making the same or similar mistakes). |
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| llamabeast | Oct 8 2012, 04:13 PM Post #2 |
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Incidentally llamaserver has backups in the same format for every llamaserver game ever. The only trouble is that in order to get them to anyone I have to manually upload them to the web server - not a big job, but getting round to it is a faff. I suppose perhaps I could automate it somehow if there was a lot of demand. |
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| Torin | Oct 9 2012, 02:20 PM Post #3 |
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Round 1 elimination Thedemon (Tirn na Norg) vs Torin (abysia) My pretender: ![]() Nothing to see, standard blessing setting. No deep thinking building this one. Turn one: ![]() Attack the mountain province with the troops. Prophetize the assasin as usual. Recruit a mage to research and some burning ones. This is to see how the pics look. It will take time to make the full aar. coming soon i hope. |
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| Fantomen | Oct 9 2012, 03:26 PM Post #4 |
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Absolutely awesome! I'll want those archives for sure later on. That said, I'm personally not ok with anyone else looking through my turn files/orders until the tourney is over or I'm eliminated. |
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| BlanketThief | Oct 9 2012, 06:06 PM Post #5 |
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I'm only tossing out the .trns and .2hs which belong to the corresponding player so there shouldn't be any worries about that. I won't be peeking at anyone's turns unless the player in question asks me to sift through their turns to see 'why didn't this mage cast storm in that one combat' (for a really specific example) or some such. Edit: Spelling and whatnot. |
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| frosted | Oct 9 2012, 07:09 PM Post #6 |
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Torin that looks fucking awesome. |
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| HeatEXTEND | Oct 10 2012, 06:45 PM Post #7 |
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This is gonna be sweet. |
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| abmpicoli | Oct 8 2016, 11:23 AM Post #8 |
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I'm making a similar solution , for autosave features at my desktop... I'm building a java application with an IDE: You can restore a turn by clicking on the turn in the list to the left and pressing <enter> Is anyone familiar with the save game files? I would like to show stuff from inside the game files, such as the events that happened. I've already identified the turn number from inside the .trn file (byte 0e)... Notice that it appear in the zip file... |
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