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Highlight last savegame
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:48 pm
by zoom
It would be good if there was a way
to see what the last saving slot was.
Sometimes I try several until I find
the most recent one. Or I check the
date of the file.
(or, I play conflux III atm, I check the
water elementals killed , seems they get
down the drain or something)
again it would be nice to see it on
'load recent game' screen .
is it doable without much effort?
do any other people need that?
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:16 pm
by ian_scho
Funny I was just thinking this 'advancement' in Civ IV that I've just started playing. For the first time I've noticed that the save game files are organised by date, in descending order. No brainer to choose the top one.
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:07 pm
by Paul Stevens
How do you envision such a thing might work?
A little extra text on the 'frame' of the menu
telling which file has the most recent date?
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:36 pm
by zoom
hmm. I don't know. I thought about highlighting the
most recent one, green perhaps?
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:40 pm
by Paul Stevens
That makes sense. I'll see if such a thing is
feasible.
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:32 pm
by zoom
Thanks
hope this is not too difficult
would the overlay capability be of use?:shock:
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:08 pm
by Paul Stevens
I think the painful part is going to be
opening all the possible savegames,
chacking their 'modified' dates, and
selecting the most recent one.
Not difficult....just tedious.
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 9:55 am
by linflas
.. or open next to CSBwin an explorer window of your saves directory, list files by date (which is what i do for Conflux)
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:55 pm
by beowuuf
Can i just point out the more Paul is looking into this the less he is looking into the wiki stuff
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:11 pm
by Gambit37
Yeah, can't you just put a date as part of the comment when you save? Oh hang on that's only DM2 and RTC....
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:17 am
by Paul Stevens
Try CSBwin10_029.exe.
I labeled the saves 'A','B','C', and 'D'.
'A' is the earliest. 'D' the latest.
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:18 pm
by zoom
neat! This is very useful
thanks
edit: I just realised it only displays ABCD when
loading, not when saving. Could you add that
when you have some time, please? it works, but
I guess I got used to the ABCD already, and it is
a shock , to not see the ABCD's when saving!!!
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:04 pm
by Paul Stevens
Does everyone want this? It is easy to
add the labels when saving. (Actually all
I have to do is delete the "Don't Show
Labels Code".) Or I could make the whole
thing an option if other people don't like
seeing this.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:55 am
by Zyx
I think it's useful.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 4:23 pm
by Paul Stevens
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 6:43 pm
by zoom
yay
btw,
Have people downloading csbwin
an Idea to what the Letters mean?
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:02 pm
by Paul Stevens
That's one of the puzzles!
I don't think it will get in their way
until they figure it out.