History, what is it good for?

Ruatha · #1 May 6th, 2003, 08:02 PM

The History button in the Aliens screen what does it do? I can't seem to make it do anything!

Fyron · #2 May 6th, 2003, 08:06 PM

You have to have the option to keep track of events every turn. This is disabled in PBW games.

geoschmo · #3 May 6th, 2003, 08:09 PM

Techically it's not disabled. It's just that it requires the stats.txt files to work, and those aren't sent by default in PBW games because they give too much information to your opponent.

Geoschmo

Ruatha · #4 May 6th, 2003, 10:25 PM

Ahh, I see. I don't play Single player.
Is it possible to make one's own statistic text file? I'll have to look into this!

Fyron · #5 May 6th, 2003, 10:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Techically it's not disabled. It's just that it requires the stats.txt files to work, and those aren't sent by default in PBW games because they give too much information to your opponent.

Geoschmo

Which is why it is disabled.

Semantics are fun, but lets not clog this thread with an argument about them.

Ruatha · #6 May 6th, 2003, 10:36 PM

I tried running a few single player turns both sequential and simultaneous, to see how the hiostory is made. But I can't see how to make it.
If I could se how it's made perhaps I could make my own history files to keep track of events in the PBW games. If it's just text files it shouldn't be to hard.
But how to get a history ? What to do? I mean in the game, is there some setting, must it be multi player?
I'm confused (More so than usual)