Mortals in Heaven!
You may have encountered the 'Restore Game' Function where players can restore and continue a crashed game which has been saved by a player.
I do believe the restored game checks for the players names and for all of them to be complete. They cannot choose gods, for they are still saved from the savegame.
The idea now it to create custom restore-games, playable from certain perspectives without the name-check. Like "The Battle of Memphis" could be a custom made restored game on which players get different roles just by which number they are or something.
Or just to create scenarios which preset the gods of all players.
I'd like to look into that possibility and check what can be done. If anyone knows anything already or is interested to participate, please do so.
For now: Savegames are stored there:
Docs/My Games/Age of Mythology/Savegame
While Rec files are called .rcx,
Restorables are called .svx.
Try the Extractor to decompress SVX-Binaries:
http://aom.heavengames.com/downloads/showfile.php?fileid=11116
Use a Hex-Editor to read.
Share what you have learned.
You may have encountered the 'Restore Game' Function where players can restore and continue a crashed game which has been saved by a player.
I do believe the restored game checks for the players names and for all of them to be complete. They cannot choose gods, for they are still saved from the savegame.
The idea now it to create custom restore-games, playable from certain perspectives without the name-check. Like "The Battle of Memphis" could be a custom made restored game on which players get different roles just by which number they are or something.
Or just to create scenarios which preset the gods of all players.
I'd like to look into that possibility and check what can be done. If anyone knows anything already or is interested to participate, please do so.
For now: Savegames are stored there:
Docs/My Games/Age of Mythology/Savegame
While Rec files are called .rcx,
Restorables are called .svx.
Try the Extractor to decompress SVX-Binaries:
Use a Hex-Editor to read.
Share what you have learned.