[Request] Location of Techs XML File

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I'm trying to work on some visualizations of the elemental tech system (for discussion purposes) and would find it really handy to have access to the XML to read off the techs and their availability chances at each tier etc. rather than having to harvest it by hand (playing).  Has anyone found them yet?

I've looked through the game-folder (installation directory) and the usual suspect place (mygames/elemental), and don't see them.  This leads me to suspect that they're masked somehow for the beta, which makes some sense.  If that's the case, could I please have access to them? :blush:

I'm off to harvesting now...

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

The .xml files are located @ ->

Users\All Users\Stardock\Emelental - War of Magic\Temp\English\

..on Vista at least. :) You can find the CoreTechs.xml file there as well. If you have XP, just search for that file, and you will find the directory what you are looking for.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Not finding them on Win7 using the search functionality for CoreTechs, CoreTech or CoreTechs.xml.  Thanks for the attempt though.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

C:\Users\All Users is just a shortcut to C:\ProgramData on my Win7 machine, and the search function (eventually) found the files there just fine. If you can't find them there then I'm a little stumped. The ProgramData folder is hidden (as is the All Users shortcut, for that matter), so maybe your computer wasn't searching there for some reason? That's the only explanation I can think of.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

C:\ProgramData\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic doesn't have a \temp folder, only \screens and \impulsereactor along with the crash dumps.  I really am quite puzzled.  Screenshot, just for fun.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Curious.  When I got home today I checked my desktop for those files and found them! (Pretty much where you said they were).  But they're not on my laptop... which seems to play the game fine, how curious.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

I believe the game downloads the relevant game files from the internet every single time you start the game, and runs off that. Perhaps a previous version of the game was making a local copy of the files as well, and the current one does not (or vice versa)? A bit weird, either way.