| Duelling with Dropbox |
Sun, 20 February 2011 17:37  |
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| Altruist wrote on Mon, 21 February 2011 07:10 |
It was mentioned that you have already made some experiences with duels using the Dropbox.
Would you mind to share the setup and wether any problems with the copy protection occure?
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'llos 
Setting up a game with Dropbox is very simple. Simply share a Dropbox folder and create the game in the shared folder as you would normally. The two things are completely separate.
Dropbox setup:
1)If you both already have DB accounts then one of you simply shares a folder with the other or
2)If neither of you has a DB account the one of you should create an account and do 3)
3)If one of you has a DB account then send during the share a folder wizard, simply enter the email of your non-Dropbox duelling buddy who can then sign up to Dropbox and have the folder immediately shared.
Bonus! Every time you share a folder with ,or refer, a non-Dropbox person who then sign's up you both get 250MB more space -->CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP  <--
If you haven't already done so, both of your will want to download the Dropbox client. This will enable automatic syncing of the Dropbox folders on your computer with your Dropbox folder at the Dropbox website - and in the case of shared folders, these will then be synced onto your duelling buddy's computer. There are various option for the Dropbox client that I won't get into and by default all of your Dropbox folders and files are sync'd so for the purposes of this, unless you need to enter web proxy credentials, they don't need changing.
That's pretty much it. Now any files you place in the shared folder on your computer will make their way to your friend's computer. Files you delete will be deleted, etc.
Create the game in the shared folder...or move the game files (.hst, .xy .m etc) there once you're created the game and just play.
It should be noted that both of you will have access to all the game files which has a number of rammifications:
*I recommend putting a password on your turn file as its easy to accidentally double click your opponent's turn file.
*Organise with your opponent who is going to generate turns. If the folder gets out of sync, (eg by both of you genning a turn at the same time) then it can be tricky to recover. IMO there are two scenarios that need arranging:
1) when you're both playing at the same time - generally hoping to get multiple turns done as opposed to 1/day etc - in this case I recommend one person opening the .hst file and clicking "Auto Generate" in the host dialog.
2) When you're playing whenever you get time or 1/day etc - in this case I recommmend each player open the host dialog after playing their turn, and if both players are submitted(green) then click generate turn. This allows each player to effectively play two turns each time - one before gen and one after - even if the players never play at the same time. This is the same as the email method of emailing all of the game files back and forth only without the need to do the emailing.
Both players (or at least the players who will open the .hst file) have backups=50 in their stars.ini file or have some other backup system in place.
Re copy protection, if you're like me and you've also connected your Dropbox account to your work computer so you can *ahem* play at work, you *will* need to be careful of the copy protection. The simple solution here is whenever you open a turn where you have saved it on the other computer and are continuing to work on it(or just every time), delete your .x file after opening your turn. A simple rule for that - if the .x file exists when you open your turn, then delete it.
One problem that has been occurring frequently is that Stars!.exe has been crashing for both of us with a GPF fault when generating turns - this could be related to just about anything and our solution has been to use Task Manager to kill the ntvdm.exe process before running the host utility. taskkill /f /im ntvdm.exe if you want to put it in a batch file for some reason - bear in mind this will kill any open Sta
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