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Re: Micromanagement Tools (was Fledgling Admirals 2: EoG Comments) Sat, 10 July 2010 14:18 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Captain Maim is currently offline Captain Maim

 
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From what I've seen in trying to understand the formatting of the headers and such, stars tends to explicitly state the byte length of things. I mean I'm sure you know that it uses 2 bytes to define a block, a block ID and the block length.

Also I think in the "planet (x) has built (y) ships" as I recall, the additional value you may have forgotten the 4 bytes are probably the ship counts. Cause I'm pretty sure it can say how many of what kind you've made.

In reading the files, do you ever alter them to observe the results? I find doing that tends to make deciphering them much faster. (Tweak, observe, record, repeat.)

I was thinking that the server messages would be useful to an AI. I recall talking to PaulC about what you quoted there. It was his intention to do that so that no one needed the encryption and it would thus be of limited circulation. Course as you said, if anyone wants it they can get it, cause I guess we're not as tightly gripped about that sorta thing these days. Heck, if this evolved into a whole new (and shinier) stars client that still used the existing server. That would just rock.


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