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Robot Arena => General Support => Topic started by: Urjak on October 18, 2009, 02:25:13 PM

Title: Something I just realized.
Post by: Urjak on October 18, 2009, 02:25:13 PM
What I am about to post is mostly for new people who might not know this. I am guessing most of the vets already know.

When I first started playing (and even now sometimes) I would often accidently delete one of my good robots on accident, or even a whole team. I used to think, "Ah well... there gone. Better start over." But recently, I noticed that the game doesn't delete the bot files when you hit delete. My guess is it just removes there entry from the Teams.txt.

Thus, until you overwrite that same bot slot or team slot with another robot/team, the robots/team files are still there, and thus you can make a copy of the bots and then import them back into the game.

Again, sorry for pointing out the obvious to everyone, but I could see this being useful for someone who didn't already know about it.
Title: Something I just realized.
Post by: Avalanche on October 18, 2009, 02:50:09 PM
Where do they go?
Title: Something I just realized.
Post by: DuckRA2 on October 18, 2009, 03:03:19 PM
I always thought the teams acted odd when I looked in the bot files of them, thanks for that info
Title: Something I just realized.
Post by: somestrangeguy on October 18, 2009, 03:43:48 PM
Yeah, I knew this. Its indeed a good way of getting the bots back if you accidently remove them.
Title: Something I just realized.
Post by: HurricaneAndrew on October 18, 2009, 04:02:31 PM
Yeah, I found that out after I was complaining about the game crashing while having an unsaved SHW. Luckily someone told me this. I was very happy to find that out.
Title: Something I just realized.
Post by: Naryar on October 18, 2009, 04:12:08 PM
Discovered this like 4 months ago, when developing NAR AI.
Title: Something I just realized.
Post by: trumpetguy on October 18, 2009, 07:33:49 PM
However, you have to save the bot at least once, to retrieve it again.
Title: Something I just realized.
Post by: Badnik96 on October 18, 2009, 07:36:23 PM
OMFG WHAT A COINCIDENCE! I JUST NOTICED THIS LIKE 10 MINUTES AGO!
Title: Something I just realized.
Post by: nicsan2009 on October 18, 2009, 07:48:30 PM
Quote from: Badnik96;73701
OMFG WHAT A COINCIDENCE! I JUST NOTICED THIS LIKE 10 MINUTES AGO!

CAPS LOCK IS ANNOYING
Title: Something I just realized.
Post by: kill343gs on October 18, 2009, 08:04:11 PM
Badnik, Capslock is unnecessary. We get it without the loud text. An exclamation point would have sufficed nicely.
Title: Something I just realized.
Post by: 123savethewhales on October 19, 2009, 02:40:32 AM
Lol I got a chance to use it today after my game crashed.
Title: Something I just realized.
Post by: Jonzu95 on October 19, 2009, 06:25:51 AM
Why? O.o