Iron Civer _The Main Event_

[bongo]

I don't have the slightest idea of what you're talking about (well, I *was* tired yesterday)

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[alexman]

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[Rommel2D]

Originally posted by bongo
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It would be nice if the Civ file manager had such power...

[alexman]

Originally posted by Rommel2D

It would be nice if the Civ file manager had such power...

I take it you haven't tried WindowsFileBox=1 in your .ini file?

[Rommel2D]

I have now

[Rommel2D]

Not as elegant as the default manager. I think it would be better to torture Bongo until he renounces his heresies...

[Aqualung71]

Originally posted by alexman


I take it you haven't tried WindowsFileBox=1 in your .ini file?

Displaying my ignorance......what does that do?


Hey Bongo, wake up you layabout!!!

[edit: not that it matters, I won't be home for another 12 hours now!]

[Moonbars]

gets rid of the C3C file requester and uses the windows one instead.

I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE CHANGE NAME FORMATS!

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[bongo]

How do you guys organize your saves anyway? If you play in more than *one* PBEM you can be pretty sure naming will be somewhat erratic.

I try to stick with the generic *name of game*,*name of player after me*,*date*.SAV


Occasionally I mix up the first two, or forget the exact spelling of the game.

[Aqualung71]

Originally posted by bongo
Occasionally I mix up the first two, or forget the exact spelling of the game.

That was exactly my original point!

[bongo]

How do you organize your saves? One Giant Folder?

[Moonbars]

I am in the process of writing a little email client that tracks saves, names them, and mails them. Biggest issue so far is working out what the save will be called when u exit out of civ3. i am thinking I might have to read the save, and extract the world seed, as a way of IDing all the games. Or have the user always save the game as "outbound.sav" or somesuch.

[bongo]

The game already makes a name proposal for your saves. Problem is of course that you may have more than one PBEM using the same tribe- and player name.

I am doing this the manual way now, it's a bit of extra work but not that much. And I have total control

[Rommel2D]

Once I create a new name for the save (usually GAMENAMEtoNEXTPLAYER_YEAR), I leave the last few saves in the folder. When saving a game, I click on the digit of an old save and type in the new year with a single keystroke, maintaining the same name template. It also helps to put a 0 at the front of the year between 1000BC and 1000AD.

[bongo]

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