Stored Templates

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Hi all,

As some of you may already know, now that my exams have finished I am allocating one day a week to working on Warzone.

To this end, over the past day or so, I have been working on adding support for stored templates. Stored templates are a solution to a common problem: that of having to continually redesign the same old templates again and again every time you start a new game.

They work by adding a button to the design screen which allows for a template to be saved to disk. As soon as one has researched all the prerequisites for a stored template it is made available in the design screen.

While the feature is not yet finished -- I still need to perform some more extensive testing and find some more appropriate icons for the button (Mr. Turret and Mr. Recycle bin are definitely not suitable!) -- a patch is available. Those that are interested can find the patch in the tracker here: http://developer.wz2100.net/ticket/1946

Feedback and commentary appreciated.

Polemically yours, Freddie.
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This is a brilliant addition, thank you for your work.
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Christheturtle wrote:This is a brilliant addition, thank you for your work.
Second that.
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THANK YOU! GREAT IDEA. :wink:
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Sweet. :)

This will surely enhance the quality of attention & tasking on the field of combat by lessening rote, non-combat, switch-tasking. A substantive improvement this &, me thinks, any mechanic design going forward that is guided by the underlying formulation.

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I hope you remember not to load new stored templates with no Command Center.
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I think this could enhance the old "Force Editor", which I would like to see put back in as an option.

Do you think the "force editor" could be brought back (like on turns on/off scavengers, you could turn on or off a starting force), and use these stored tempates?

The old force editor had some designs I would never use, and there were designs I wanted that it didn't have (that would have been composed of components found on designs it did have)
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Finally,some good features! ^_^
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