Civ 5 is available for linux now? I know there has been lots of people asking for it, but I didn't think it happened? Or do you mean it runs in linux via wine?

ok - i just read that now about it.. cool! (as for your question, will have to defer to NullMaster and Tazzik).

We do plan to open source the desktop client later this year, however it will be the newly re-written desktop client for Multiplayer Robot 2.0.

In the meantime we've documented our current web API for people like yourself interested in writing a desktop client. You can find that here: http://multiplayerrobot.com/About/Api

Let us know if you have any questions about it!

Hello NullMaster,
thanks for your answer.
Just started to play around at
https://yagmrc.codeplex.com/
I have a question about the API at
http://multiplayerrobot.com/About/Api
GetLatestSaveFileBytes:
Is there an encoding that needs to be aware of (base64) or is it just downloading the byte array ?
Regards
Alex B.

It is just downloading the byte array. You can check the Content-size header of the HTTP response to get its length.

Hello NullMaster,

I think downloading works (for me) now.
I still have a problem when I try to upload a game.
(The current turn is me.)
Here is a little code snippet that demonstrates my problem.(.Net 4.5)

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;


FileInfo savedFile = new FileInfo(@"c:\andsoon.Civ5Save"); // use the correct file
string myauthKey = "myAuthkey"; // use the correct authKey
string myturnId = "myturnID"; // use the correct turnID

using (WebClient wc = new WebClient())
{

byte[] response = wc.UploadFile(new Uri("http://multiplayerrobot.com/api/Diplomacy/SubmitTurn?authKey="+myauthKey+"&turnId="+myturnId), "POST", savedFile.FullName);

string str = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(response);

}

The result from uploading the file this way is always: "{"ResultType":0,"PointsEarned":0}".
That means that there is an error reported by the webserver.

When I investigate the traffic with a tool, I was able to see that the .Net Webclient clas itself adds a
Content-Length to the header:
"
POST http://multiplayerrobot.com/api/Diplomacy/SubmitTurn?authKey=XXXXXXX&turnId=XXXXX HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------8d17c0520950906
Host: multiplayerrobot.com
Content-Length: 462125
Expect: 100-continue
...
"

My question would be, can you reproduce that behaviour with the WebClient class ?
Do you suggest using a different way of uploading a file ?

Regards
Alex B.

Hello everyone,
I released a beta 1 under
https://yagmrc.codeplex.com/
Thanks again for all your hints regarding the api.
Regards Alex B.