berto
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Getting back to work... In developing chkareas.pl & chkregions.pl, I encounter a puzzle: In ACW, there are two Regions files, both with the name "Susquehanna, PA": [root@berto Regions]# pwd /media/KINGSTON/Games/AGEOD/AGEod's American Civil War/ACW/GameData/Regions [root@berto Regions]# ls -1 *Susquehanna* 46Susquehanna, PA.rgn 76Susquehanna, PA.rgn The contents of those files: [root@berto Regions]# egrep "^UID =|^Name =" 46Susquehanna,\ PA.rgn UID = 46 Name = Susquehanna, PA [...] [root@berto Regions]# egrep "^UID =|^Name =" 76Susquehanna,\ PA.rgn UID = 76 Name = Susquehanna, PA [...] In ACW/Aliases/Regions.ini, we have: [root@berto Aliases]# pwd /media/KINGSTON/Games/AGEOD/AGEod's American Civil War/ACW/Aliases [root@berto Aliases]# egrep "= 46" Regions.ini | head -n 1 $Lackawanna, PA = 46 [root@berto Aliases]# egrep "= 76" Regions.ini | head -n 1 $Susquehanna, PA = 76 Note that Region 46 is "Susquehanna, PA", but for alias value 46, the corresponding alias is "Lackawanna, PA". It gets curiouser. In LocalStrings_ACW.csv, we have: [root@berto Settings]# pwd /media/KINGSTON/Games/AGEOD/AGEod's American Civil War/ACW/Settings [root@berto Settings]# egrep "Susquehanna|Lackawanna" LocalStrings_ACW.csv RegionName46;Lackawanna, PA;Lackawanna, PA;Lackawanna, PA;Lackawanna, PA;NULL;Lackawanna, PA; RegionName76;Susquehanna, MD;Susquehanna, MD;Susquehanna, MD;Susquehanna, MD;NULL;Susquehanna, MD; Note that for alias RegionName76, the values are all "Susquehanna, MD". But as you can see above, region 76 is otherwise given as "Susquehanna, PA". So what is it (for region 46): "Susquehanna, PA" or "Lackawanna, PA"? And is it (for region 76): "Susquehanna, PA" or "Susquehanna, MD"? Are you thoroughly confused yet? There are more than a few discrepancies like that in the various AGEOD game data files. Do these discrepancies matter? Are they cosmetic flavor only? Mere oversights? Are they clever kludges to solve obscure problems? Or are they bugs, that impact actual game play? Whichever, I don't see what good can come from such (needless?) confusion.
< Message edited by berto -- 8/15/2012 12:14:59 PM >
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