15-02-2005 11:51									#151
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I don't have the slightest idea of what you're talking about (well, I *was* tired yesterday)

Sort'em by date

	15-02-2005 20:02									#152
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	15-02-2005 22:41									#153
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quote: Originally posted by bongo Sort'em by date

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

	15-02-2005 22:44									#154
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quote: 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?

	15-02-2005 22:50									#155
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I have now

	16-02-2005 04:15									#156
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Not as elegant as the default manager. I think it would be better to torture Bongo until he renounces his heresies...

	16-02-2005 05:40									#157
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quote: 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!]

	16-02-2005 11:14									#158
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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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	16-02-2005 13:49									#159
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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.

	16-02-2005 14:09									#160
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quote: 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!

	16-02-2005 14:20									#161
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How do you organize your saves? One Giant Folder?

	16-02-2005 14:25									#162
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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.

	16-02-2005 14:45									#163
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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

	16-02-2005 21:24									#164
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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.

	17-02-2005 02:58									#165
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	17-02-2005 05:07									#166
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2430BC to alexman

	17-02-2005 05:22									#167
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2430 to Moonbars

	17-02-2005 07:10									#168
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quote: Originally posted by 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.

See, I can't understand why *everyone* doesn't do it this way. I certainly do, and it is just simply the easiest way, unless you have very small HD space (which in this day and age of USD$.80 per GB, USD$.80 shouldn't be too much to pay for a few thousand civ saves).

You just navigate to your save folder (3 or 4 at the most sets of clicks) and then click on the last save, and then edit the year... less work by far. I of course have separate save folders for each game (in the save subfolder), which makes it even easier... as long as people keep the save format the same !!!!!

	17-02-2005 08:33									#169
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That's the way I do it too, though I use "PLAYERNAME, GAMENAME, YEAR", also using a leading zero for years between 1000BC znd 1000AD

	18-02-2005 00:19									#170
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	18-02-2005 04:43									#171
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Sorry.....power problems at home, so I won't be able to play the turn until tonight

	18-02-2005 23:36									#172
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2390BC to alexman

	18-02-2005 23:41									#173
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Sorry, I didn't get it because the post I made today in the absences thread had a typo. My correct address is in the first post of this thread. It hasn't changed - what will change is the address of my work, from which I have been sending you guys my threats.

	19-02-2005 00:37									#174
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	20-02-2005 03:36									#175
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Moonbars?

	20-02-2005 03:48									#176
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Moonbars has been erratic since his holiday. I hope he didn't decide to join a different cult...?

	20-02-2005 03:52									#177
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Which leaves me the choice of firing up civ (Yeah, the 10+ year old original!! Gawd the diplomacy sucks ) while I wait, or go to sleep

	20-02-2005 17:31									#178
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I've had numerous PC problems.

My favorite is the one that caused me to replace one of my HDs. after moving all the data off it (just had MP3 and some DVDs on it) and swapping in the new drive, plus the new DVD burner I got at the same time, windows (which is installed on a different drive) refused to let me using MS Office, saying "MS Office has detected a signifigant change in your HW config and you must re-activate office" That sucks because:

a) The hardware change was hardly "signifigant"
b) I needed to insert the Office CD and I couldn't find it
c) It suddenly dawned on me that my office CD was in my OLD dvd rom, and i'd need to power that back up to get it out of the tray.

Moral of the story? Install Linux or buy a MAC!
Or remember to empty our old CD drives before upgrading

Save to Bongo.

	20-02-2005 22:54									#179
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	21-02-2005 04:31									#180
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2350BC to alexman