New MP Game - Random, Anonymous, No Diplomacy

Boron · #1 July 25th, 2005, 01:39 PM

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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

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Huntsman · #2 July 25th, 2005, 05:15 PM

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Boron said:

Quote:

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

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

Boron · #3 July 25th, 2005, 05:51 PM

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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

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King Lear · #4 July 25th, 2005, 07:54 PM

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 · #5 July 25th, 2005, 08:56 PM

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.

PashaDawg · #6 July 25th, 2005, 10:54 PM

Hi All:

Ok. I now have pretenders for everyone, including King Lear. Whew!

Now... the problem is that 3 pretender STILL don't have passwords, even after being resubmitted. Isn't that goofy? What's up with that? Ugh! Why is this particular game cursed with these particular difficulties?

Lack of passwords could prove problematic if the game is ever on a server.

Pasha

PashaDawg · #7 July 25th, 2005, 10:58 PM

Nevermind. Only 1 pretender is still without a password. I have sent an email to the player in question. Then, I do believe we will be able to get this game going!