Taking Notes During Grand Campaigns

[Stuperman]

I take notes on and off, I find that once your empire has 30+ provinces, keeping track of generals can be a pain, espeically if you don't want all of them to become lazy alcoholics.

[andrewt]

I would support some ingame notetaking as well. I usually plan which city or which castle techs up to which unit or building first and of course, it's almost impossible to keep track of all of it if you're micromanaging. That and planning attacks, sending agents, etc. Whenever I play a game again after a break, whether a few hours to a few days, I always end up repeating the first turns because there's always something I'd forget.

Oh yeah, I was going to send all these priests to this province because it's about to revolt. Oh yeah, I needed to move some garrisons from these cities to a newly conquered one. Oh, that's what that ship is for and why these armies are moving here...

[Chosun]

Good stuff all and thanks. If you play the game in windowed mode,(have not tried it yet) can you at least have notedpad running maybe? As my games always end up being a bit unstable after awhile, I still like a pen and paper for quick reference. Kinda low tech I know but effective.

[_Tristan_]

You sure can open notepad behind MTW2 if you can run it windowed...

I've done time and again to access the EDCT and EDA files while playing

[DukeKent]

Windowed mode is a godsend for modders. You have the game running in a full screen window. You can also have as many other windows available from the bottom taskbar as your hardware can handle. I usually have textpad (multiple M2TW .txt files open for editting, plus my faction notes file), a browser (firefox of course, with multiple tabs open), and the windows explorer minimum. But then I have a dual core with 2 gig of memory on my home rig. Occasionally I also have paint open for trimming a cool screenshot

Try it, you'll like it!

[Aaron A Aardvark]

A couple of times I've started writing things down but it was just too boring. (And my memory is lousy.) I have lost the ocasional priest, army or settlement that way.