Save research stats?

Gorgo · #1 October 30th, 2001, 01:39 PM

Is there a way to copy the contents of my research window so that I can save it as a text file or send as an attachment to other players? Would be great for trading with other players.

Btw, this would be a nice feature: A message type "send research statistics".

Gorgo

Rollo · #2 October 30th, 2001, 01:54 PM

Yes, that would be handy sometimes

. The only thing I can think of right now is making screenshots of the research window and send the picture files.

Rollo

Gorgo · #3 October 31st, 2001, 02:44 AM

Yes, screenshots is what I'm doing right now.

Baron Munchausen · #4 October 31st, 2001, 02:13 AM

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Originally posted by Gorgo:
Is there a way to copy the contents of my research window so that I can save it as a text file or send as an attachment to other players? Would be great for trading with other players.

Btw, this would be a nice feature: A message type "send research statistics".

Gorgo

Do you mean show what technologies your already have or show what technologies you are currently researching? I wouldn't think you'd want to reveal ALL of the techs you currently know to anyone. This is not a very 'Machiavellian' attitude!

Such information could be used against you! Anyway, as far as saying what techs you have to trade or requesting techs from other players, you can easily do that with a human via a 'general message' in the diplmacy screen. With an AI you would have to explicitly request a trade for the desired tech, I guess, or explicitly offer to trade a tech that you have. I don't think the AI has mesages for saying that it does not HAVE a tech that you are requesting, though. I think it would just refuse the trade. If it did tell you when it didn't have the tech, this might be a way to cheat, after all. Asking for techs would be much easier than using intelligence ops to learn your AI enemy's tech levels.

Aristoi · #5 October 31st, 2001, 02:16 AM

I'm playing a team game right now that requires a sharing of technology. It would be convienent to keep the allies in sync to be able to export a text file with all my current techs in it.

In a normal game this would be worthless. But in a team victory game, it becomes very useful.

Suicide Junkie · #6 October 31st, 2001, 02:22 AM

Why not just organize how to research from the beginning?
Ie. "You do shipsize and shields, I'll do weapons and engines."