FAQ entry

Keywords: All, efile,

What is the content of the Efile description file (efile.txt)?

This file (or the formerly used efile.xml) contains the most important information about your Efile, displayed by the game in the Efile selector tool.

This file should have at least six lines. None of the first six lines can be deleted and the order of the first six lines should be preserved. The XML-style element names should be preserved too.

* This is an Efile description file

* Please don’t change the number and order of the lines.

<title> Insert the full title of your Efile here.

<description> Give a short description of your Efile, e.g. the covered period, nations, conflicts. If your Efile is a fork of another Efile, give the credits here (e.g. “It’s a fork of XYZ Efile”).

<version> Put the version number here, and don’t forget to update it everytime you update your equipment file.

<author> Give your name or nickname (used on OG Forums) or both, as you prefer. If more people contribute, the “author” element can be repeated several times.

After the sixth line, you can add further optional lines, but none of them will be displayed in the game. However; an additional <url> or <licence> field can be used on the online Efile database.

See a real example how this file looks like in practice:

* This is an Efile description file

* Please don’t change the number and order of the lines.

<title>Spring of Nations

<description>Openized Equipment File covering revolutions and conflicts between national movements and empires from 1756 to 1850.

<version>0.7.1

<author>Csaba (lvjtn)

<license>CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)