Re: New MP Game - Random, Anonymous, No Diplomacy
 

Ok.

I have new pretenders from the folks that had not included passwords. Now, I am only waiting on King Lear to respond.

Pasha

Re: New MP Game - Random, Anonymous, No Diplomacy
 

k Pasha, I've sent it again. I have no idea why it didn't work last time.

Re: New MP Game - Random, Anonymous, No Diplomacy
 

Hmmmm. The new file sent by King Lear does not work. The program claims that it is not a "dominions file." Any suggestions? Ugh!

Re: New MP Game - Random, Anonymous, No Diplomacy
 

Pretender files are supposed to be around 0.3 kb; is the size of his file more or less correct? And what exact error message is given? I think I recall that one, but...

Re: New MP Game - Random, Anonymous, No Diplomacy
 

Nagot gick fel!

not a Dominions file


(King Lear's file is about 512 bytes, while all of the others are about 290 bytes. Perhaps, he is not taking his file from the Newlords file? I sent him an email with that suggestion.)

Pasha

Re: New MP Game - Random, Anonymous, No Diplomacy
 

0.5 kb is too much, I think: even a Pretender with lengthy titles does not get above 0.35, so I guess there's something odd in the file. Maybe it was created with the demo, or was made with a mod adding new pretenders, or some such.

It's not big enough to be an order file though, as even an empty turn 1 order file weights more than 3 kb.

Re: New MP Game - Random, Anonymous, No Diplomacy
 

Or it isn't being sent as a proper attachment due to error on his or his email client's part, or he's sending one from the Dom3 beta, or Space Empires, or a file from Minesweeper.

Hard for anyone to really say, since due to the anonymous nature of the game you can't actually tell us what you received.

If you look at the raw data of the email message, it should have something akin to this (my pretender file for Undead game, emailed to myself):

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>
--Message-Boundary-1026
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-disposition: inline
Content-description: Attachment information.

The following section of this message contains a file attachment
prepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format.
If you are using Pegasus Mail, or any other MIME-compliant system,
you should be able to save it or view it from within your mailer.
If you cannot, please ask your system administrator for assistance.

---- File information -----------
File: tienchi.2h
Date: 21 Jul 2005, 22:02
Size: 307 bytes.
Type: Unknown

--Message-Boundary-1026
Content-type: Application/Octet-stream; name="tienchi.2h"; type=Unknown
Content-disposition: attachment; filename="tienchi.2h"
Content-transfer-encoding: BASE64

AQIERE9NEDsAANQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP////8PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhKjgjID0rPE8ZqijWFng5
MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAtAAFAP///////wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/////wAdKisq
KiIqPU8AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD/////////////AAAAAAAAAAAAAP////////////8A
AAAAAAAABgQAAAQDCQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD
AgED/f8DID0rbyApbwIuKCIuY28HKm8YJyBvHDsgIypvOycqbwkmPSp jbx8qPTwqLDo7ID1v
LiErbwsqPDs9IDYqPW8gKW8WIDo7J08jAAAABAAAAHsAAADAfQ ==

--Message-Boundary-1026--
</pre><hr />

Re: New MP Game - Random, Anonymous, No Diplomacy
 

King Lear should try to zip the pretender file and resend it. Sometimes email servers does odd things to files in the clear.

Re: New MP Game - Random, Anonymous, No Diplomacy
 

According to his profile King Lear is from Austin and according to wikipedia he then either lives in Kanada or the Usa.
So a compatriot could suggest a 100% working email company for King Lear and he uses this one then.
Having to zip every turnfile is way too much work, at least i would be too lazy to zip all my turnfiles http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif.

Re: New MP Game - Random, Anonymous, No Diplomacy
 

Where's Kanada? [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif[/img]