Print out game details

[fisab]

Sorry in advance for such a newbie post.

I am starting to play a weekly game with friends.
Is there any way of printing out details on the state of my country, i.e. stuff from the domestic management screen and from the ledger?

Taking screenshots would be fairly tedious. If there was a way of getting stuff ot write to a text file it would be really handy for looking thru during the week between gaming sessions.

Many thanks in advance for any help on this matter.

[Darkrenown]

You could open up the save file (notepad etc. will open it) and find the section for your nation.

[fisab]

Originally Posted by Darkrenown

You could open up the save file (notepad etc. will open it) and find the section for your nation.

Thanks for the reply. I've just opened my saved game and did a search on my country name.
Cant see anything useful there that I could print out.

[Darkrenown]

What is it that you want? Pretty much every detail of your nation is there to print:

CAS={
    history={
        government=feudal_monarchy
        aristocracy_plutocracy=-2
        centralization_decentralization=-3
        innovative_narrowminded=2
        mercantilism_freetrade=-1
        offensive_defensive=2
        land_naval=0
        quality_quantity=-1
        serfdom_freesubjects=1
        primary_culture=castillian
        add_accepted_culture=andalucian
        religion=catholic
        technology_group=latin
        capital=215
        1406.12.26={
            monarch={
                name="Juan II"
                DIP=4
                ADM=4
                MIL=5
                id={
                    id=612
                    idtype=37
                }
    flags={
        absenteeism=yes
        dead_hand=yes
        discovered_america=yes
        harvest=yes
        papist_sentiment=yes
        rebellion=yes
        simony=yes
    }
    capital=215
    primary_culture=castillian
    accepted_culture=andalucian
    religion=catholic
    technology_group=latin
    technology={
        land_tech={0 4334.291}
        naval_tech={0 3023.103}
        trade_tech={2 114.356}
        production_tech={1 310.870}
        government_tech={1 2905.325}
    }
    prestige=0.348
    stability=3.000
    stability_investment=298.727
    treasury=14.425
    current_income=0.000
    estimated_monthly_income=48.856
    inflation=3.909
    last_bankrupt={
        year=1
        month=0
        day=0
    }
    wartax={
        year=1
        month=0
        day=0
    }
    war_exhaustion=0.000
    land_maintenance=0.000
    naval_maintenance=1.000
    army_tradition=0.000
    navy_tradition=0.010
    distribution={
0.122 0.000 0.878 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000     }
    tolerance={
0.000 5.000 0.000 0.000 2.000 0.000 0.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.000 -1.000     }   
    cancelled_loans=0
    loan_size=200
    badboy=0.000
    quest_for_the_new_world=yes
    government=feudal_monarchy
    colonists=1.849
    merchants=5.000
    missionaries=5.000
    spies=5.000
    diplomats=5.000
    aristocracy_plutocracy=-2
    centralization_decentralization=-3
    innovative_narrowminded=4
    mercantilism_freetrade=-1
    offensive_defensive=2
    land_naval=0
    quality_quantity=-1
    serfdom_freesubjects=1
    manpower=16.986
    infantry="western_medieval_infantry"
    cavalry="western_medieval_knights"
    big_ship="carrack"
    galley="galley"
    transport="cog"

I've chopped a bunch of stuff off, but you can see income, slider settings, monarch, unit types, NIs, cash, prestiege etc. If you didn't find this stuff, it's best to search for your monarch's name.

[fisab]

Thanks for that.
It comes to around 21 pages in Word for a nation.
Its not nicely formatted but a lot better than I had.
Many thanks.

Originally Posted by Darkrenown

What is it that you want? Pretty much every detail of your nation is there to print:
[code]
CAS={
history={
government=feudal_monarchy
<snip>
I've chopped a bunch of stuff off, but you can see income, slider settings, monarch, unit types, NIs, cash, prestiege etc. If you didn't find this stuff, it's best to search for your monarch's name.

[jdrou]

Unfortunately the state of the economy is not so simple. You'd need to pull data from other game files and the province info of the savegame to work out things like your trade and production efficiency and total tax, trade, gold, production, etc. income. You'd need a separate program to really duplicate all the ledger outside of the game.

[fisab]

I dont suppose such a utility exists out there

Originally Posted by jdrou

Unfortunately the state of the economy is not so simple. You'd need to pull data from other game files and the province info of the savegame to work out things like your trade and production efficiency and total tax, trade, gold, production, etc. income. You'd need a separate program to really duplicate all the ledger outside of the game.

[AndersSchm]

Originally Posted by fisab

I dont suppose such a utility exists out there

Someone is bound to make one though just give it time...

[mlepkows]

Writig a processor of the save file in C++/Java shouldn't be difficult. I might try if I have enough time. Anyone has suggestions regarding output and it's layout?

Maciek

[fisab]

My suggestion would be to recreate the contents of the ledger in a text file.
That would be fantastic info to be able to print out and study offline.
But it does seem like a LOT of work.

Originally Posted by mlepkows

Writig a processor of the save file in C++/Java shouldn't be difficult. I might try if I have enough time. Anyone has suggestions regarding output and it's layout?

Maciek

[mlepkows]

My skills are pretty basic but I can't see a problem with:
1) Searching the file for a specified country.
2) Storing selected data in a more useful format.
3) Looking up all provinces owned by this country.
4) Repeating 2) and doing some basic aggregation.
What's more difficult is:
a) Doing that for all countries (well, not that much more difficult, it's an automated process after all).
b) Presenting that in a more vievable form (it's perfectly doable with Java, I just suck at programming... ).

Maciek

[jdrou]

To show the trade and production efficiency you'd need to pull at least:
tech level from savegame
efficiency from the tech files
static modifiers, national ideas, policy sliders, govt in effect from savegame
effects of those things from static_modifiers.txt, ideas.txt, policy.txt, government.txt

[King of Men]

You might have a look at this thread. Tonioz made a very nice stat thingie for EU2, and seems to be updating his work for EU3. If it works the same as in EU2, you'll upload your savegame to a webpage, and it outputs HTML for you to look at.

[seboden]

Originally Posted by mlepkows

Writig a processor of the save file in C++/Java shouldn't be difficult. I might try if I have enough time. Anyone has suggestions regarding output and it's layout?

Maciek

You might want to have a look at this.
MichaelM wrote a (open-source) Java library for accessing Eu3-type fileformats. It is in no way a savegame interpreter, but it could save you a lot of time in building one.