I love this series. I didn't like how many clicks it took each turn to play a Civ3 / Conquests game by email, so I wrote a helper that would automatically laun

I love this series. I didn't like how many clicks it took each turn to play a Civ3 / Conquests game by email, so I wrote a helper that would automatically launch the game when you opened an email attachment, read pixels from the screen, identify known patterns of graphics, and send clicks to "autopilot" the game into loading up the save and entering your turn. When you finished your turn, it would zip the file back up and send it to the next player. It was a little buggy but proof of concept worked well. Didn't get much chance to use it myself, but later gifted the code to some programmers who ran a fan site and were interested in it.