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takkaria · September 27, 2018, 18:15

To be honest I think it would be a lot of work for limited use. The savefile code is pretty straightforward, and quite extensible already. Debugging what is going on in it isn't that hard. The savefile also stores a lot of binary data and it would be really inefficient to encode it in a text-based format like XML or JSON. I'm not sure what actual advantages it would offer.

September 27, 2018, 18:15	#2
takkaria Veteran Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,947 Donated: $40	To be honest I think it would be a lot of work for limited use. The savefile code is pretty straightforward, and quite extensible already. Debugging what is going on in it isn't that hard. The savefile also stores a lot of binary data and it would be really inefficient to encode it in a text-based format like XML or JSON. I'm not sure what actual advantages it would offer. __________________ takkaria whispers something about options. -more-