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platon79 wrote on Tue, 14 January 2014 15:58
I'm back! Very Happy
I played a couple of games on stars autohost in ca 2005, and this Autumn, I met up with another guy on a board game convention here in norway, and we talked about stars and how we and a couple of other Norwegians played a couple of games together some long time ago.
Well, it ended up with us four actually setting up a game again, using Google drive to store the game files, and I myself, not having Windows 7 on my laptop (to play stars in xp mode) but Windows 8, installed good old Windows 3.1 on my dosbox to make it running (ah, the good old days Smile ).
Well, long story short, we have played until 2406, but now when I open the hst-file, I just get a Message saying that "The X are not on the right year" for EVERY player.
I tried copying the hst-file from the backup-directory, but the problem persists.
Anyone who can help us with this problem? I really liked stars back in the days, and I still do (read a lot of threads to brush up on old strategy before this game), so I would really like to play this game through.
When we are finished with this game, and if we don't decide to start another one just after the first, I think I'd like to try another autohost game again, if there are any games starting nowadays, but first we must solve our problems with this game, so that I will not forsake stars altogether...


A couple thoughts/ideas:

Are all players on the exact same version number (e.g. 2.6j-rc4)?

Could you have inadvertently copied over the .hst file with a version from a prior turn? Check the version history in Google Drive and see if the timestamps are off. I've had occasional problems with Dropbox when compiling my turn on different PCs. Always user error, and version history makes it plain.

Could you have inadvertently genned the last turn twice, but sent the first files? Again the version history in GD should tell the story.

Try a Google search of this site for the exact wording of the error message. I tried but didn't get anything...perhaps the exact wording is a little different than what you typed out?

Plenty of much savvier blokes around here, and some of them probably have some better ideas. Worst-case scenario (I think) is that you get the .m, .x, and .hst files for the prior turn (via GD version history) and re-gen.

Nice to hear that pockets of old players are still out there. I'm jealous that you have local friends to play. The last time I managed to get a local game going was...geez, 7 years ago.

Plenty of games still to be found here. Check the New Games Announcements thread. It can take weeks (or months) for games to fill up, but that's probably a good thing since it keeps some of us from playing too many games all at once, going mad that much faster.



What we need's a few good taters.

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