Password?

[MrWhereItsAt]

I was elated to discover I was the second person to download the save when it passed to us. However, I was less than impressed to find that I couldn't locate the password for this save - what is it, and why isn;t it clearly signposted for all to see?

Dammit I want to discuss, debate and kick up a stink about lazy functions operating at less than optimal capacity, and I can't even log on? What kind of Microsoft operation are you running here?

[Maniac]

The password can be found in my posts in the Turn Report thread, so you can see them every time you download a presend-save (at least if I played the turn). The passwords are "001010100011" and "experiment".

[MrWhereItsAt]

Another two queries, and since they're related to the saves I thought I would keep them in the same thread as the rather essential password info:

what is the second password "experiment" for, and what exactly is a "presend"? Is it a savegame where all orders are carried out and then it is saved prior to ending turn and sending on?

[MrWhereItsAt]

Impaler - if you wanted to chat re: the game, I am in the #apolyton chatroom on mIRC, server Apolyton. If you can't figure out how to get to it PM me and I can help.

[Maniac]

001010100011 (1-2-4-3 in binary) is the original password Googlie gave us. Then there was some incident where some idiot hacked the ACDTG save files, presumably found the method how passwords are stored and encrypted in the save file, and based on that came up with alternative passwords that when encrypted give the same code as the original password. That hacker then sent the passwords to Comrade Tassadar. Tassadar then left the Hive and became Assistant God.
The alternative password the hacker mentioned for the Consciousness was "experiment". Hence we have two passwords we can use.

You are correct about what a presend is.