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Hi all,

I've been getting an "incorrect race.nm file" error message when opening my new turn for the last two turns, although apparently everything is fine in that file and I could play the game without problems...

Has someone experienced something similar?

Bye, Evil Commander

Hi,

Hi all,

I've been getting an "incorrect race.nm file" error message when opening my new turn for the last two turns, although apparently everything is fine in that file and I could play the game without problems...

Has someone experienced something similar?

I have no issues but you could try this: send racenames

Cheers, Sirko

Hi, I have no issues but you could try this: send racenames

Cheers, Sirko

Oh, thanks, I didn't know that command! I'll try next turn in case it keeps on failing.

Regards ÓsQar

paklet in Re: Problem with race.nm:

I have no issues but you could try this: send racenames

Oh, thanks, I didn't know that command! I'll try next turn in case it keeps on failing.

(Just curious: what program gives the error message "incorrect race.nm file"?)

You can always download the current race.nm file (and all other current game files) from the website. There's a "Files: Browse" link on the game page. The server automatically emails the game files only for your first turn, but it always keeps the download area up-to-date.

--Stefan

(Just curious: what program gives the error message "incorrect race.nm file"?)

You can always download the current race.nm file (and all other current game files) from the website. There's a "Files: Browse" link on the game page. The server automatically emails the game files only for your first turn, but it always keeps the download area up-to-date.

--Stefan

Oh, hi, Stefan, nice to read you again (I followed some threads from you in PlanetsServer forums some years back)

Well, my race.nm file now works flawlessly, thank you very much. I think that the problem arose when player 9 changed his name from "Robotic" to "Cylon", but I don't know why I was the only one who got the error message.

Perhaps it is related with the program I play with. I began using latest VPA (3.67b), but it was very slow and sometimes froze when activating some views in the map (and not only when playing via DosBox in a 64bits platform, it also happened on a pure x86 computer). So, I decided to use old VPA 3.62c, where everything works smooth. Perhaps the race.nm file got corrupted when I changed the VPA version (don't know even if such thing makes sense).

Regards!

Well, my race.nm file now works flawlessly, thank you very much. I think that the problem arose when player 9 changed his name from "Robotic" to "Cylon", but I don't know why I was the only one who got the error message.

Perhaps it is related with the program I play with. I began using latest VPA (3.67b), but it was very slow and sometimes froze when activating some views in the map (and not only when playing via DosBox in a 64bits platform, it also happened on a pure x86 computer). So, I decided to use old VPA 3.62c, where everything works smooth. Perhaps the race.nm file got corrupted when I changed the VPA version (don't know even if such thing makes sense).

I know VPA requires a correct race.nm file and complains when your copy is out of date, so it totally makes sense that problems start to arise when someone changes their race name. However, normally, VPA automatically detects that we're using PHost here, and requests the new file from the host. And the message does not say "incorrect race.nm file", that's why I asked.

I don't know how a change in VPA version can damage your race.nm file, though.

--Stefan