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[Murdoc]

Hi,

If I wanted to share a fortress with a friend, what would I send them? I have a region under the saved game, but it's like 28megs... which is a bit too large for me to email... is there anyway of trimming that down and giving them the essentials?

Thanks in advance for the help.

[khantin]

you could compress the save into multiple smaller files (like 10 2.5MB chunks) and send them one at a time.

[quinnr]

Yeah, you can use a file splitter, or compress it into a .zip or .rar file.

If they live nearby, USB drives are your friend.

[Logical2u]

You can also upload it to a file service such as rapidshare or the like, only giving the link+password to your buddy via email.

[Box]

Super-compress with KGBarchiver if that's still the best one... like packing a supermarket into a basketball.  You can push it to absolutely ridiculous limits, but it just takes a while.  With certain filetypes, you can push several gigs into about 50 MB.  Haven't tried it myself with Dwarf Fortress, but it's definitely worth a look.

[Retro]

Take "region1" or whichever folder. Rename to whatever you want (I usually do fort name). Compress in .zip. Upload to DFFD. Send URL. Huzzah!

[nbonaparte]

Super-compress with KGBarchiver if that's still the best one... like packing a supermarket into a basketball.  You can push it to absolutely ridiculous limits, but it just takes a while.  With certain filetypes, you can push several gigs into about 50 MB.  Haven't tried it myself with Dwarf Fortress, but it's definitely worth a look.

Somehow I don't think DF save files have that kind of redundancy.

[Christes]

Take "region1" or whichever folder. Rename to whatever you want (I usually do fort name). Compress in .zip. Upload to DFFD. Send URL. Huzzah!

This.  We really do have it down to a science here with succession forts.

[Thief^]

If you have the same raw and graphics set up, you can remove those from the savegame and have them add their own folder back. That should save some filesize, assuming you're using DF 0.31.

[kcwong]

You can also upload it to a file service such as rapidshare or the like, only giving the link+password to your buddy via email.

Box.net is also good. No need to wait for JavaScript countdown like others, and only the uploader needs to create an account (free). Max. 25Mb for a single file, total 1Gb storage.

[Lawec]

megaupload.com is great as well. No need to sign up there.

[Murdoc]

Thanks everyone, pretty much what I figured, but was hoping for a smaller file.

Ah well, I'll get to it then, hehe, thanks so much!

[SolarShado]

Thanks everyone, pretty much what I figured, but was hoping for a smaller file.

Ah well, I'll get to it then, hehe, thanks so much!

Just make sure it's zipped. I use 7zip. Never tried it with DF saves, but you can get some pretty good compression usually.

[NRN_R_Sumo1]

I prefer sharebee, it uploads to several others for you so you don't need to worry about your friend already using his one free rapid share download of the day.