Tool for searching leader traits

[jpd]

Hi,

As probably many others, I have difficulty finding leaders with certain rare skills, such as German land commanders with 'fortress buster' or 'winter specialist'.

While I have learned that an enhancement request has been made for a future version to show the traits tooltip in the leader selector, I didn't want to wait for that, so I wrote a little command line tool to do the job for me.

I post a link here, for other players that are also interested

http://www.xs4all.nl/~jpd/hoitool.exe

Enjoy,

Jan Peter

 

[jdrou]

Originally posted by jpd

While I have learned that an enhancement request has been made for a future version to show the traits tooltip in the leader selector, I didn't want to wait for that, so I wrote a little command line tool to do the job for me.

Not sure what you mean by this. There is a traits tooltip in the leader selector.

 

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But you have to go scrolling throught a massive list to find specialty generals. Like needle in a haystack - especially if you have tons of generals like Russia.

 

[Pihlen]

what to do with this file? execute it or put it in hoi directory?

 

[jdrou]

Also, you can change the ; to , in the leader file and save it as another name. Then load into Excel and sort. You may want to translate the trait codes into their text if you can't keep track in your head.

 

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How do i scroll up in ms prompt?

 

[jpd]

Originally posted by Psychesoft
How do i scroll up in ms prompt?

Use old fashioned I/O redirection to place the output in a text file, and open it up in any text editor of your choosing.

Jan Peter

 

[jdrou]

Originally posted by jpd
Use old fashioned I/O redirection to place the output in a text file, and open it up in any text editor of your choosing.

Jan Peter

or pipe through 'more' to display one screen at a time:

hoitool | more

Ahh, the DOS (stolen from Unix) command-line.

 

[jpd]

Originally posted by jdrou
or pipe through 'more' to display one screen at a time:

hoitool | more

Ahh, the DOS (stolen from Unix) command-line.

<grin>On my system, that would actually be:

hoitool | list /s

I use the 4DOS command.com replacement

Jan Peter

 

[jdrou]

Originally posted by jpd
<grin>On my system, that would actually be:

hoitool | list /s

I use the 4DOS command.com replacement

Jan Peter

Yes anyone who uses DOS needs 4DOS.