Scripting!

Update: To start with we will be making 4 civs. Athens, Sparta, Troy, Persia
The Nation of a player is read in from a file called, Nations.txt

Athens Athens.txt
Sparta Sparta.txt
Troy Troy.txt
Persia Persia.txt

this data gets read into an array of somesort

Need the program to open the respective nation file.
In this nation file we need to pull out certain bits of data.


List all buildings avalable to nation, up to a maximum of 20, with filenames.

[MEMBERS]
TownHall townhall_sparta.txt
LumberCamp lumbercamp_sparta.txt
Quarry quarry.txt
Blacksmith blacksmith.txt

[BuildingRequirments]
//These need to be accessed when determining weather certain building requirments have been met

Building=Blacksmith Level=1 Req=2 TownHall #level 3 OreMine #level 1

Buildingfiles

Name=Blacksmith
Wood=100
Marble=120
Bronze=60
Gold=25
BuildTime
BuildPtsGenerted

for example our user clicks to build a level 1 blacksmith. We need to tell the program which buildings need to be a certain level
in this example as our player is sparta, the program must open nation file "Sparta.txt" jump to [BuildingRequirments] and find out the number of requirments. Extact them an on by one place them into tthis function

buildRequirments(building_name, level)
buildRequirments(1, 3)

The buildings a nation can construct are to be declared at the top of the Nation file. This idealy should be done in the format of.

We need to tell the main program, what building we wish to construct. Donoted by its name.We also want the level that our building will become.
after this we need to determine what other buildings we need to consttruct the proposed building, stating the level required of these structures.

Please note that this isn't the correct way of doing this, just the way I see as the most flexable. You may add variables, functions, classes, even namespaces if you want, as long as it works and gets the required data, but most of all the job done.