Events file size

[alcibaides]

I have heard quite a lot of people talk about maximum events memory or maximum events file size.

What is the maximum?

Is it the number of lines / characters in the file? Or the size of the file in bytes?

And what is the maximum?

 

[Catfish]

I have heard quite a lot of people talk about maximum events memory or maximum events file size.

What is the maximum?

It varies with the version of the game. For Test of Time (the one I use) it's 104 kB. For the Multi-player Gold Edition it's around a third of that and for Fantastic Worlds about one quarter.

Is it the number of lines / characters in the file? Or the size of the file in bytes?

It's the way the events are stored in memory. In ToT each event uses 284 bytes plus strings (each string has a null terminator - an extra byte). I imagine they use a little less in FW and MGE since the events for those versions are simpler.

And what is the maximum?

That depends on the size of any strings (and, in ToT, the use of the @AND modifier, which doubles the size of an event). Assuming each event averaged 350 bytes, that would mean you could fit around 300 in a ToT scenario. It's never enough.