civ 5 replay parser (for brave new world)

Goal

Made this for personal use -- not focused on creating pretty HTML map animations because that is now in-game.

Goal is to export the Notification Log so it can be parsed and then used to easily benchmark games.

Feel free to play with this and expand it to your liking.

Credit

Over at civfanatics' forum, dannythefool's original civ5replay.py and associated forum thread was helpful in reverse-engineering how the new BNW file format works. There have been some changes from Vanilla, but some other things have stayed the same, and having a guidepost of how things once used, and code to parse them back then, was an immense help.

Overview

There are two python scripts:

• bench.py, which parses a replay file
• mark.py, which takes the output from bench.py and converts it into handy tab separated benchmarks, suitable for opening in excel (to track progress across multiple games)

There is also a bash shell script:

• build, which runs bench.py on a replay file and then mark.py on a replay file. You may need to chmod +x this to run it. I use Mac OS X or cygwin, so there's no DOS batch file. Feel free to submit a pull request with one, though!

Use

Copy the Civ5Replay file from /My Games/Sid Meier's Civilization 5/Replays into the folder for this replay parse.

Then run build on the replay, ignoring the file extension. You'll need to put quotes around the name if it has spaces. Or just rename it something shorter and less annoying. For example:

./build "Casimir III_0238 AD-1936_39"

Or, after a rename:

./build game-3

Results

You can find the raw text of the parse in .txt and the tab separated benchmarks in .tsv. My convention in the benchmarks is I use a negative turn number for wonders the AI gets.

Known Bugs and Limitations

• So far this only works for Poland, because that's the Civ I've been playing most since BNW came out. You can change this by either fixing the code to read the player's civ name or by changing byte offsets. I might fix this one day, probably once I start playing other Civs. Or you can fix it with a pull request!

• So far it only looks at the notification log.

Todo?

• Make it work for any civ
• Reverse-engineer how the header works?
• Reverse-engineer how the map works?