Unification of the Isles: Britannia Hotseat (completed, winners Myth and Zim)

**Nightbringer** · 03-04-2011, 07:53

Originally Posted by Myth

by opening the save file (found that at work when I opened the one you guys said is corrupt).

This is why I guess

**Zim** · 03-04-2011, 08:12

That's a what he did, not a why.

Fiddling with the saves in notepad strikes me as opening up all sorts of avenues for abuse. Or at least it would if the files didn't come up as gibberish in notepad.

Originally Posted by Nightbringer

This is why I guess

**Nightbringer** · 03-04-2011, 08:34

Originally Posted by Zim

That's a what he did, not a why.

Fiddling with the saves in notepad strikes me as opening up all sorts of avenues for abuse. Or at least it would if the files didn't come up as gibberish in notepad.

I think what he meant by that was that he was trying to figure out what was wrong with the save file.

**Myth** · 03-04-2011, 15:07

Basically yes it was stated the file is smaller. I opened it assuming I'd get gibberish (which i did) then I saw a wall of plain ol' English.

I double checked and I think it's actually Wales's correspondence, not a part of the actual game. I won't open any more saves but since I know it can be exploited I told you guys (rather than reading the messages quietly which would have been to my advantage). So you can trust in my honesty as a player :)

**Zim** · 03-04-2011, 20:11

I know what you were getting at. I just had never heard of someone opening a save in notepad in order to fix a corrupted save

Originally Posted by Nightbringer

I think what he meant by that was that he was trying to figure out what was wrong with the save file.

I didn't think you would have cheated and the posted about it. It just seemed curious to me to try to open a hotseat save. One of the earliest hotseats here was marred by at least one person messing with files (in this case his game files) and accusations that at least one or two others were doing something similar. No offense meant.

Originally Posted by Myth

Basically yes it was stated the file is smaller. I opened it assuming I'd get gibberish (which i did) then I saw a wall of plain ol' English.

I double checked and I think it's actually Wales's correspondence, not a part of the actual game. I won't open any more saves but since I know it can be exploited I told you guys (rather than reading the messages quietly which would have been to my advantage). So you can trust in my honesty as a player :)

**Cecil XIX** · 03-05-2011, 20:41

Norway!

**Myth** · 03-06-2011, 23:37

I was merely curious, I am no programmer nor do i know how to mod MTW. I double clicked just for the hell of it :)

It appears that our diplomacy thread is a bit on the slow side though. BTW do we actually send our diplomats to the Isle of Man in game?