Trade Assist

[Salte]

Great tool ainwood! Now maybe i can compete in the tech-race on those high-level gotm's.

 

[AlanH]

Originally posted by bluebox
this should be an image that shows the main window ...

Many thanks for making that effort, Bluebox, and for your suggestions for additions.

I have now managed to get a copy of TradeAssist running on my little P/200 and with Ainwood's assistance I have edited the Win98 registry to persuade it to monitor the active Civ3 autosaves directory on my Mac. So I can now see these screens for real, and try to work out how to make an equivalent tool for Macs with the great extra features that have been suggested here.

Meanwhile, if any Mac user wants to know how to get the PC version to watch a Mac game, please send me a PM.

 

[ainwood]

@Alan - v1.0.1 might help - you can set the directory via the command line (readme on how to do that is in the zip file).

 

[standingwarrior]

Very cool program.

How can I use it while the game is being played? When I run the game, it takes up the whole screen so how can I get to the program?

 

[sabrewolf]

simple: SHIFT-TAB zu switch to the trade assistant, you started before you started the game
then SHIFT-TAB back again...

 

[ainwood]

Alt + Tab between it and Civ. Note: Alerts are automatically brought on top of the civ screen (but they take a few seconds, so I strongly suggest that you change the civ option to 'wait at the end of every turn', and instead of hitting 'space bar' in the early game (when turns are fast), you wait a few seconds, to let the program check the last file.

 

[AlanH]

Originally posted by ainwood
@Alan - v1.0.1 might help - you can set the directory via the command line (readme on how to do that is in the zip file).

Yes, thanks for that Ainwood. It's strange - the new version works for one of my Civ3 directories but if I try pointing it to another one it fails. I even tried copying the "Auto" directory from the working location to the non-working location in case there was a problem with file dates.

It's going to be a challenge to provide a Mac version because other apps can't pre-empt the game display. Best multi-tasking desktop GUI on the planet and Civ3 turns it very effectively into a single-tasking system

 

[smackster]

Oh my, oh my, oh my this is big, really big, why didn't I see it before now. I installed it and its working for me, I already bought two workers that I didn't know were available.

Fantastic utility Ainwood this is really going to help me. I remember one of the GOTM's when there were 16 civs, I looked at each one every turn of the game, I think it must have added 10 hours or so to the time of the game.

Thankyou

Smackster

 

[torrasque]

Great program. Works perfectly on my 400mhz Win98 box running PTW.

Would it be possible, in the VERY far future, to enable it to tell you when one of your cities is about to go into disorder?

Eagerly awaiting a Conquests version...



torrasque

 

[Turner]

I would think it would be possible, torrasque.

Check out this thread. it has some links to graphics mods that help in seeing if a city is going to go into disorder.

Ainwood - I am anxiously awaiting a C3C version of this. Any idea of an ETA on this?

 

[ainwood]

Re conquests ETA: I am currently sorting out a few enhancements, then will work on conquests. Shouldn't take forever - a few weeks I hope....

 

[JimmyNeutron]

This is a great Utility for the most part. I have noticed that when I have elimanated a civ when playing on huge maps that sometimes it will show the eliminated civ having a worker for sale. I will restart the Utility and it will work fine afterwards.
Look Forward to the C3C version.

 

[Salte]

Does anybody else have problems with the workers? In gotm28 i was often told (sometimes in consecutive turns) that a civ had workers for sale, but when i checked to see there wasnt anyone there.

 

[ainwood]

There appears to be a few mugs... If you can send me a save, it would help me iron them out.

Please send to gotm@civfanatics.net

 

[anarres]

hehe. Also mugs in the mug reports....

 

[Skyfish]

dp

 

[Skyfish]

Wouldn't a mugshot be better than a mug report ?

 

[killerloop]

I spend to little time on all CF has to offer. This is a great tool!! Tx, ainwood. This will save time a lot.

 

[jb1964]

Thanks. It's a helpful utility. Simplistic and easy to use.

 

[ainwood]

New version added. See first post in thread for changes.