Python Database

Kindwind

Does anyone have a python data base of the game? (Territ., Units, Adjacencies etc)

RogerCooper

@kindwind TripleA uses XML and some TXT files to define the mod. The data is different for each mod.

If you are interested in technical details, download the mod https://triplea-game.org/map/the-pact-of-steel/ and find the file pact_of_steel_2.xml. This mod has explanations of the game code in its comments.

Kindwind

@rogercooper Thank you, do you know how I can access the game.dat file for revised. It doesn't seem to be held on my computer and I want to see if I can get an LLM to look at data for it.

TheDog

@kindwind
Do want to look at the source code for the AI ?
If so go here
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/releases
and download one of the source files.

RogerCooper

@kindwind I assume you mean the game.dtd file, which defines the XML code. Check out this article https://axisandallies.fandom.com/wiki/Game.dtd.

Using an LLM is likely to be a frustrating exercise. You can just read the code or even use Excel to extract data. Here an example of a some of the code for territories and adjacencies.

 <!-- Territory Definitions -->
    <territory name="red capitol"/>
    <territory name="red north 1"/>
    <territory name="red north 2"/>
    <territory name="red middle 1"/>
    <territory name="red middle 2"/>
    <territory name="red south 1"/>
    <territory name="red south 2"/>
    <territory name="blue capitol"/>
    <territory name="blue north 1"/>
    <territory name="blue north 2"/>
    <territory name="blue middle 1"/>
    <territory name="blue middle 2"/>
    <territory name="blue south 1"/>
    <territory name="blue south 2"/>
    <territory name="neutral territory 1"/>
    <territory name="neutral territory 2"/>
    <territory name="sea zone 1" water="true"/>
    <territory name="sea zone 2" water="true"/>
    <territory name="sea zone 3" water="true"/>
    <territory name="sea zone 4" water="true"/>
    <!-- Territory Connections -->
    <connection t1="red capitol" t2="red north 1"/>
    <connection t1="red capitol" t2="red middle 1"/>
    <connection t1="red capitol" t2="red south 1"/>
    <connection t1="red north 1" t2="red north 2"/>
    <connection t1="red north 1" t2="sea zone 1"/>
    <connection t1="red north 1" t2="red middle 1"/>
    <connection t1="red north 2" t2="sea zone 1"/>
    <connection t1="red north 2" t2="blue north 2"/>
    <connection t1="blue north 2" t2="blue north 1"/>
    <connection t1="blue north 2" t2="sea zone 2"/>
    <connection t1="blue north 1" t2="sea zone 2"/>
    <connection t1="blue north 1" t2="blue capitol"/>
    <connection t1="red middle 1" t2="red middle 2"/>
    <connection t1="red middle 1" t2="red south 1"/>
    <connection t1="red middle 1" t2="sea zone 1"/>
    <connection t1="red middle 1" t2="sea zone 3"/>
    <connection t1="red middle 2" t2="sea zone 1"/>
    <connection t1="red middle 2" t2="sea zone 3"/>
    <connection t1="red middle 2" t2="blue middle 2"/>
    <connection t1="blue middle 2" t2="blue middle 1"/>
    <connection t1="blue middle 2" t2="sea zone 2"/>
    <connection t1="blue middle 2" t2="sea zone 4"/>
    <connection t1="blue middle 1" t2="sea zone 2"/>
    <connection t1="blue middle 1" t2="sea zone 4"/>
    <connection t1="blue middle 1" t2="blue north 1"/>
    <connection t1="blue middle 1" t2="blue south 1"/>
    <connection t1="blue middle 1" t2="blue capitol"/>
    <connection t1="red south 1" t2="red south 2"/>
    <connection t1="red south 1" t2="sea zone 3"/>
    <connection t1="red south 2" t2="blue south 2"/>
    <connection t1="red south 2" t2="sea zone 3"/>
    <connection t1="blue south 2" t2="blue south 1"/>
    <connection t1="blue south 2" t2="sea zone 4"/>
    <connection t1="blue south 1" t2="blue capitol"/>
    <connection t1="blue south 1" t2="sea zone 4"/>
    <connection t1="sea zone 1" t2="sea zone 2"/>
    <connection t1="sea zone 3" t2="sea zone 4"/>
    <connection t1="neutral territory 1" t2="red capitol"/>
    <connection t1="neutral territory 1" t2="red north 1"/>
    <connection t1="neutral territory 1" t2="red north 2"/>
    <connection t1="neutral territory 1" t2="red south 1"/>
    <connection t1="neutral territory 1" t2="red south 2"/>
    <connection t1="neutral territory 2" t2="blue capitol"/>
    <connection t1="neutral territory 2" t2="blue north 1"/>
    <connection t1="neutral territory 2" t2="blue north 2"/>
    <connection t1="neutral territory 2" t2="blue south 1"/>
    <connection t1="neutral territory 2" t2="blue south 2"/>

There is no substitute for knowing the data.

Kindwind

@rogercooper so, i found the game.dtd but I can't seem to figure how out how to extract the data to my spread sheet or data base.

RogerCooper

@kindwind You will need to parse the data yourself, by using functions like instr() in Excel or find/replace in Notepad.

I have used Microsoft Access to import everything, but even then the results were not easy to use.