I had some problems opening the 2.06draft1 of the rules and the creditcalculator.xls hosted here (but not any of the 2.05 versions.)

I have now tried on two seperate machines, same result on both machines (but both are Office XP ::shrug::) The excel file just gives up without any message. A second indicates that the file is locked. The word file states that the file is unavailable.

Both 2.05 opens fine and my original of the calculator opens fine.

Did the format change to something like 2003? But I would haven thought M$ would have a better error message (like version not supported or something.) Now, the file length of the .XLS is longer than my original - maybe a transfer/FTP error? I have seen that once.

busybody,

The error I get with Excel 2002 is as follows:

'CreditCalculator.xls' cannot be accessed. The file may be read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the document the server is stored in may not be responding.

You did not have any links to outside documents did you? That might cause this error. Or as you mentioned, it might just be an upload error. Do you think you could email the file to me? I am organization a Civ game this weekend (with Dowobeha) in Minneapolis with 16-18 players and this would help. Thank you.

P.S.
My little brother has been fiddling around in java to come up with something like this (with more detail like the spreadsheet from the JP Expansion) that will run from any web browser. Do not hold your breath for it though. He is pretty busy right now.

Ravsitar

"Stupidity is just ignorance with attitude."

Nope, no links. I haven't figured it out yet.



Emailed! You can also download it from:
http://www.generally-in-motion.org/civ/

I will probably be updating it to include things I witnessed at our game on New Year's day.

IMPORTANT: Using the credit tokens is just about as fast and with more than one person on a laptop running the spreadsheet, it is faster.

Though it is *much* easier to use to figure out the card total at the end. I'll probably modify it to include the total card store.

Thanks for the email busybody. File works fine. We'll probably just be using it at the end and every once in a while to verify that people have the correct number of credit tokens.

Looks like we're getting 17 players for this weekend. I just wish we'd have had more prep time to make diecent tokens for the 9 added nations. Oh well, maybe for our summer game.

Thanks.

Ravsitar

"Stupidity is just ignorance with attitude."

Mosst likely something went wrong in file transfer from one computer to another. It is, however, another posibility that OO.org messed up. (You see, I don't have M$ WinDOS, nor M$ Word, but are using OO.org (Open Office, http://www.openoffice.org). It SHOULD save all files in a MS compatible format, but something might have gone wrong. I'm on holidays now, but will look into this the comming weekend when I get home.

Sorry for any trouble this has lead too.

Regards
- Jonno

My Mac has both Word and OpenOffice on it, so I should be able to look at it this evening.

I have now redone all file transfers, and checked that I can open all files after downloading them back again from the internet, so if anything still isn't working, it's OO.org's fault, and if so, I'll see if there is anything I can do about that, but as I don't have M$ Word, it's up to you out there to check if it is working.

- Jonno