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« 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.
Any comments would be appreciated. :D

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« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2009, 02:50:09 PM »
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« Reply #2 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

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« Reply #3 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.

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« Reply #4 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.

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« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2009, 04:12:08 PM »
Discovered this like 4 months ago, when developing NAR AI.

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« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2009, 07:33:49 PM »
However, you have to save the bot at least once, to retrieve it again.

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« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2009, 07:36:23 PM »
OMFG WHAT A COINCIDENCE! I JUST NOTICED THIS LIKE 10 MINUTES AGO!
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« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2009, 07:48:30 PM »
Quote from: Badnik96;73701
OMFG WHAT A COINCIDENCE! I JUST NOTICED THIS LIKE 10 MINUTES AGO!

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« Reply #9 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.


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« Reply #10 on: October 19, 2009, 02:40:32 AM »
Lol I got a chance to use it today after my game crashed.

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« Reply #11 on: October 19, 2009, 06:25:51 AM »
Why? O.o