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Unread post XML Dump
Huh, i never knew that existed. when you press $ at the TWGS menu. you get a XML dump of all games and game data on the server. its kind of slow spitting it all out. but convenient for a bot to look for games and settings on servers like micro blasters site.

version 2 of course.


Tue Nov 12, 2013 2:25 am
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Unread post Re: XML Dump
Unfortunately, the values in the tags are just copied verbatim from the '*' game settings list. They still contain units and stuff, so you still have to do some parsing if you want a numeric value. You don't actually gain much over just parsing the '*' list. I doubt any helpers are actually using the '$' data, so there's still opportunity for improvement.

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Unread post Re: XML Dump
thats true. good point. i was surprised when it happened though lol

* is faster anyway.


Tue Nov 12, 2013 8:51 pm
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Unread post Re: XML Dump
Microbot uses this data, but from the main menu. Pressing $ at the main menu will dump XML data for all games on a server.

There is a longer delay if the server hasn't updated this data within the last hour and has to regenerate it.

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