New MP Game - Random, Anonymous, No Diplomacy

[King Lear]

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

[PashaDawg]

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

[Alneyan]

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...

[PashaDawg]

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

[Alneyan]

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.

[Cainehill]

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):

Code:

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--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--

  

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[The Panther]

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