[Innocence]

ftherlnd is the "world state" file. It contains all of the information about the world, which is needed to host a game. It's updated at every hosting. In a PBEM game, players should not be sent this file unless you wish them to be able to do oracular hosting, or you wish to change who is handling the hosting.

Ok thanks - so it's a host-only file and in a normal multiplayer game the regular players wont even have this file

I would like to know the file formats very much - sadly the other game, which would have been much more suited for such a task, Stars!, died without the devs giving the specs to the public.

Ah yes Stars! I wouldn't call it dead, though the sequel sadly is.

It's likely that Illwinter has enrypted the files, but if they wont release the file-specs and encryption metod (and noone else has been able to figure it out) I say we stand almost zero chance of any progress. Too bad.

Alternatively, maybe they could implement an export feature like Stars! has, dumping ALL information from the players PoV into semi-colon separated text-files, readable with anything from Excel to custom made programs. All without comprimising the file-security.