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ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Sucks that I lost my HDD a while back. Had loads, and loads of saves from throughout the game. Some as early as spring of 42. [:(]

Not sure what happens with tracker if you change the password. Ask Damian! [:)]

You just need to change the .bat file to match the password as you load the turn.

I just thought of that in between these posts as well. I can just load up until the change with the old one, then change to th enew one and add that turn. So I can get from 6/42 (my earliest existing save) to 7/45, once I set up a new tracker. Cool!!

Jocke you don't have any saves before 6/42 do you?

I don´t even have any saves from 44. All gone in the disc crash.

3 Years of data in tracker it will be something like size of 5GB or more .
Opening tracker will take good amount of time. My biggest database was 13 months and on Quad Core CPU and with 8GB RAM it took over 15 minutes to open Tracker

I am running two tracker sets. One is daily, which once it get too big (9 months or so of turns) then I start over in a new file.

I also have a second DB that I only load turns from the 1st and 15th of each month. I use this one to show longer term trends and it will last all game since even by Apr 46 it should only have 106 turns loaded.

ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg
I am running two tracker sets. One is daily, which once it get too big (9 months or so of turns) then I start over in a new file.

I also have a second DB that I only load turns from the 1st and 15th of each month. I use this one to show longer term trends and it will last all game since even by Apr 46 it should only have 106 turns loaded.

That is pretty clever! [:)]

ORIGINAL: koniu

ORIGINAL: obvert

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna




You just need to change the .bat file to match the password as you load the turn.

I just thought of that in between these posts as well. I can just load up until the change with the old one, then change to th enew one and add that turn. So I can get from 6/42 (my earliest existing save) to 7/45, once I set up a new tracker. Cool!!

Jocke you don't have any saves before 6/42 do you?

3 Years of data in tracker it will be something like size of 5GB or more .
Opening tracker will take good amount of time. My biggest database was 13 months and on Quad Core CPU and with 8GB RAM it took over 15 minutes to open Tracker

The saves I'll useare a bit sporadic. Not exactly planed, but I like Feurer Krieg's idea of two trackers for the next game. Smart.

I do have a few clumps from several different periods, so I could probably use the 6/42 as a start, and maybe load a few days that are close to each other to see more of the daily trends. I don't think I'd have over 50 turns to load, probably more like 35. But that will give me a much more rounded sense of the war as a whole, especially the economic changes including supply before I really considered supply.

ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg

3 Years of data in tracker it will be something like size of 5GB or more .
Opening tracker will take good amount of time. My biggest database was 13 months and on Quad Core CPU and with 8GB RAM it took over 15 minutes to open Tracker

I am running two tracker sets. One is daily, which once it get too big (9 months or so of turns) then I start over in a new file.

I also have a second DB that I only load turns from the 1st and 15th of each month. I use this one to show longer term trends and it will last all game since even by Apr 46 it should only have 106 turns loaded.

Wow, this is a great idea.

Rook

Okay, I´m already bored. Any advice/tips on games to play? Tried the following:

-Baldurs Gate 2. Reasonably fun but I have played it too much before and remember too much to do another play through.
-Panzer Corps. Pretty fun but got repetitive pretty fast.
-XCOM Enemy Unknown. Finished. Pretty fun.
WitE Almost nothing has happened to this game since I played it last. Air war is still a complete joke.
CIV 5 Still playing. Fun!

Have you tried WITP:AE ?

I hear thats a good one

[:'(]

Have you played Enemy Unknown's expansion? If not, I recommend it. If you have, you could always try a second playthrough with some of the "second wave" options.

Also, perhaps one of the Paradox Interactive games (Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, Victoria, Hearts of Iron).

ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Okay, I´m already bored. Any advice/tips on games to play? Tried the following:

-Baldurs Gate 2. Reasonably fun but I have played it too much before and remember too much to do another play through.
-Panzer Corps. Pretty fun but got repetitive pretty fast.
-XCOM Enemy Unknown. Finished. Pretty fun.
WitE Almost nothing has happened to this game since I played it last. Air war is still a complete joke.
CIV 5 Still playing. Fun!

Go for Baldur's Gate II and install the SCS mod. The mod makes the game more challenging and requires players to study the game's magic system in order to survive.

ORIGINAL: Yaab


Go for Baldur's Gate II and install the SCS mod. The mod makes the game more challenging and requires players to study the game's magic system in order to survive.

You can also install a mod that runs BG1 in the BG2 engine. I think I installed about 9 mods, widescreen support, etc. I realize you can buy it with widescreen, but i was cheap. Anyway - there are a bunch of mods for quests that were cut from the original, plus other mods for rather long quest lines that have been well written by the community.

If that is too much work, try Witcher 1 and 2. They are dirt cheap on steam and I really enjoyed them a lot.

I finally started playing Dark Souls. If you're into action RPGs, this one is amazing.


You liked BG2. Have you played Neverwinter Nights? It's super good, though I never finished it due to reformatting twice and it's been so long now that, even though I still have my save files, I forget what I was doing. And I'm far enough in that I don't want to restart.

ORIGINAL: House Stark

Have you played Enemy Unknown's expansion? If not, I recommend it. If you have, you could always try a second playthrough with some of the "second wave" options.

Also, perhaps one of the Paradox Interactive games (Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, Victoria, Hearts of Iron).

Havn´t tried the expansion yet. Got the original for free when I bought my GHX card. Might give the expansion a go. Bullwinkle told me a while back its miles better then the original!

Never could get into the EU engine games. Not really sure why. Might give it a try again. One of the older ones should be pretty cheap by now! Like HoI2 but really didn´t like nr 3.

ORIGINAL: Yaab
Go for Baldur's Gate II and install the SCS mod. The mod makes the game more challenging and requires players to study the game's magic system in order to survive.

Thanks for the tip! I´ll look into it! [:)]

ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg
You can also install a mod that runs BG1 in the BG2 engine. I think I installed about 9 mods, widescreen support, etc. I realize you can buy it with widescreen, but i was cheap. Anyway - there are a bunch of mods for quests that were cut from the original, plus other mods for rather long quest lines that have been well written by the community.

If that is too much work, try Witcher 1 and 2. They are dirt cheap on steam and I really enjoyed them a lot.

Loved the Witcher games! Suffered a bit from having a too slow computer to really enjoy it. Excellent tip. I´ll try and dig out the CDs. Moved trice since I played the first game! [:D] Didn´t really like the second one though. Stopped playing it about half way through. Can´t remember what I didn´t like about it though...

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
I finally started playing Dark Souls. If you're into action RPGs, this one is amazing.

You liked BG2. Have you played Neverwinter Nights? It's super good, though I never finished it due to reformatting twice and it's been so long now that, even though I still have my save files, I forget what I was doing. And I'm far enough in that I don't want to restart.

Oh man, I absolutely LOVED Dark souls. A friend of mine gave it too me 2 days after he bought it... [:'(] THE best PS3 game and one of the best games I have ever played. Probably the hardest game I have played too. Wonder how many times I died in the first 2 hours... I absolutely hated the first boss. The one on the rooftop of the church. [:D] I hear there DS2 is due for PC(?) pretty shortly?

I think I might have played NWN 2 but I´m not sure. Screens look familiar when I google it but I can´t remember anything from actually playing the game. I´m getting old... [X(]

Yep, DS2 is out for PC in April [;)]. I imagine it will go on Steam Summer Sale and I'll grab it then.

I think I´ll get it for PS3. [:)]

ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg
If that is too much work, try Witcher 1 and 2. They are dirt cheap on steam and I really enjoyed them a lot.

+1
I am in middle of Witcher 2 currently. Awesome game. Especially if You are familiar with The Witcher Saga by Andrzej Sapkowski. Great books and games.

State of Decay. A Zombie game with role playing, some tactics. Best Zombie game on the market I think.

ORIGINAL: koniu

ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg
If that is too much work, try Witcher 1 and 2. They are dirt cheap on steam and I really enjoyed them a lot.

+1
I am in middle of Witcher 2 currently. Awesome game. Especially if You are familiar with The Witcher Saga by Andrzej Sapkowski. Great books and games.

The games have caused me to add the books to my 'want to buy' list.

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

State of Decay. A Zombie game with role playing, some tactics. Best Zombie game on the market I think.

Intrigued by this. Looks interesting. From what I gather it's not released yet? Do you know when it's due for release?

ORIGINAL: Speedy

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

State of Decay. A Zombie game with role playing, some tactics. Best Zombie game on the market I think.

Intrigued by this. Looks interesting. From what I gather it's not released yet? Do you know when it's due for release?

State of Decay

Its supposed to be out!

State of Decay is a third person open world stealth zombie-survival horror video game, developed by Undead Labs and published by Microsoft Studios. It was first released for the Xbox 360 on June 5, 2013. A Windows version was released on September 20, 2013 via Steam's Early Access, with an official release following on November 5, 2013.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/241540/

There you go! [:D]