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Old January 20th, 2007, 12:37 PM

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Default Help: Game doesnt recognize some .2h files?

Hi everyone, I am running a PBEM game and I have found that one player's .2h file isnt being recognized by my game. The game doesn't see that the turn is there (no dash by the nation's name). I asked the player to resend, but the new, resent file doesnt work either.

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Old January 20th, 2007, 02:33 PM
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Default Re: Help: Game doesnt recognize some .2h files?

Get the player to send the file compressed (.zip or whatever) - occasionally some bits get perverted when sent raw through email, I think?
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Default Re: Help: Game doesnt recognize some .2h files?

It might be how its attached and being unattached.

Use the verifier. If the game is called BigGame then do
dom3 --verify BigGame

That will create a .chk file for each nation, and the fatherland file. Plain text files. Im not sure whats in them when the .2h is bad. I use it to get things like the turn number, or to check the serial numbers for pirates or people playing more than one nation in a game.

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Default Re: Help: Game doesnt recognize some .2h files?

You can try a few things:

1) Make sure the player is working on the current turn. Try sending the player his latest .trn file. Have him use this to redo his turn, and then have him check to see if a dash appears for him before sending the move to you.

2) Your player may be grabbing his .2h from a different game folder by mistake, one where the same nation is being played. Make sure you received a .2h from him. Sometimes players send their .trn files by mistake.

3) You may not be copying the .2h he sends into the right game folder, or may not be getting it to the proper game folder successfully. Checking the size of the file sent and the size of the 'same' file in the game folder to see if they are the same. Check the game folder itself for any extraneous files, possibly created by mistake when you were copying game files.

4) You might have hosted by mistake, but doing so would erase all the dashes.
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Old January 21st, 2007, 06:37 PM

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Default Re: Help: Game doesnt recognize some .2h files?

Usually the "unrecognized" player did sent orders for a previous turn, or sometimes his pretender design
Using -d switch indicates for which turn are the 2h files so is a good help too.
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