New MP Game - Random, Anonymous, No Diplomacy

[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.

[Boron]

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

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 .

[Huntsman]

Boron said:

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 .

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

[Boron]

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

Just in case that this wasn't meant as a small joke Kanada is german for Canada .

[King Lear]

The file is coming out of my newlords directory: countryname.2h. It is 4 kb when I send it. i've played in pbem games before, so I'm not quite sure what's up. Suggestions? Of course, I could just send the specks for it to zooko if you think that would work.

[Cainehill]

What's the size when you look at it in the newlords directory itself, the file itself before you send it? If it's over 1K (that's what Windoze shows it as - they're really 200-400 bytes) there's probably something wrong with it, verifiable by starting a new game with that nation.

Try to make sure your email program (which is what, by the way? So people can give better advice.) is getting it as an attachment, and using Mime encoding and not, mmm, UUEncode or somesuch (Mac's and a few other machines used a variant encoding for mail / Usenet that couldn't easily be handled on Intel machines). And as someone pointed out, if you make a zip file containing the pretender and mail the zip file, that might work better.