Interface Options

The CONTROL overlay groups module configuration by player. Each Player 1 to Player 8 section exposes that player's module slot and runtime status.

Module Discovery

CONTROL scans modules/ recursively for:

• *.main.lua
• *.main.module

Depth limit: 3 levels below modules/.

Global AI Settings

Setting	Default	Description
Enabled	On	Master toggle for all configured module instances.
Update Interval	1.0	Seconds between Update() calls.
Sequential Actions	On	Allows only one successful command per update tick.
Tournament Mode	Off	Blocks Lua game commands outside Update(). Read-only APIs such as facts remain available.
Auto Move Camera	On	Auto-centers the camera on executed command targets.
Command Visualization	On	Draws command feedback overlays.
Player Perspective	Default	Fog-of-war perspective override: Default, Player 1 to Player 8, All Players, or Gaia.
Modules See Everything	Off	If enabled, Lua modules ignore fog-of-war and cross-player data restrictions when reading map tiles, objects, and player state.

The update interval is clamped to 0.1 seconds in the UI and 0.01 seconds if edited directly in settings.ini.

When Tournament Mode is off, using a game command outside Update() logs a warning once per module load. When it is on, the command is rejected.

Player Module Slots

Open a player section to configure that player's module slot. If no module is assigned yet, the section shows No modules assigned..

Control	Description
Enabled	Turns that player's module slot on or off without clearing the selected module.
Sync Settings	Shares module settings through a named profile instead of player-specific settings.
Module	Selects the module entry point for that player. Selecting the same module again reloads it.
Sync Profile	Appears when Sync Settings is enabled. Multiple player slots can share the same profile.
Create Profile / Remove Profile	Manages reusable module settings profiles for the selected module.
Remove Module	Clears the selected module from that player's slot.

Multi-Module Behavior

• The UI is grouped by player, not by a flat Add Module list.
• Each player section represents one module slot for that player id.
• Assigning a module to a bot player's slot suppresses that player's native decision AI while the module remains assigned.
• Module runtime warnings and Lua errors are shown directly inside the player section.
• Module-created settings panels appear per configured settings group while AI is enabled.
• Open Folder opens the modules directory.

Debug Menu

Setting	Default	Description
Module Telemetry	Off	Shows sampled Update() and Render() cost for active modules in the Debug menu.

When Module Telemetry is enabled, the Debug menu shows:

• Active modules only.
• A sampled Baseline Frame value, which represents host frame cost after subtracting sampled module time.
• Per-module Upd and Rnd entries with both sampled milliseconds and relative x base values.
• Samples spread across multiple frames each second rather than every frame.

Misc Settings

Setting	Default	Description
Spectator Mode	Off	Enables the spectator-style reveal behavior that replaced the old Reveal Map option.
Unlock Zoom	Off	Removes the normal zoom limit. Release note: may cause rendering issues or crashes.
Chat Welcome Message	On	Enables CONTROL's startup chat message behavior.

Perspective Warning

Player Perspective changes the rendered fog view. Modules See Everything changes what Lua can read. When Modules See Everything is off, map tiles, objects, and restricted player-state methods follow the assigned player's visibility and ownership limits.

Log Window

Use Log("message") from Lua to write script messages to the log window. Runtime Lua errors are also displayed and logged through the interface.