Game detection of altered file?

[uberb134]

Thank you for creating this tool. I notice that it works inconsistently - sometimes the game ignores the edited amount altogether, and sometimes it works. I'm trying to figure out the sequence for success. I've tried copy/rename of the original save file, tried limiting the new gold amount to a double-byte int (<32,767), and tried editing all of the auto-saves to match the edited save file.

In the cases where it doesn't work, I'm not sure how it knows what the original value was. Maybe the game caches it and I need to exit the game completely and load a different saved game inbetween to avoid this?

[iqqmuT]

Does it work 100% if you:

1. Exit to desktop
2. Use this tool
3. Restart Civ6
4. Load the altered file

[uberb134]

Running on MacOS Sonoma 14.5, Node v22.3, and the game is in Steam(Civ 6 1.0.12.54)

• Steam and Civ6 were closed
• I copied the latest save game file to the script folder
• Ran tool and adjusted gold
• closed tool, confirmed that the file last modified date had been updated
• Copied the modified file back to the game folder
• Opened Steam, Opened Civ6
• Loaded game, no change in Gold

It's not a big deal in the grand scheme. I'm more geek curious about why it works sporadically.