PBEM Setup File Size

[TheBug67]

I am playing my first PBEM game and I happened to notice something with the different setup files coming in, their size can vary greatly.

Russia = 3.97mb
Turkey = 456kb
Austria = 483kb
Prussia = 3.97mb
Spain = 371kb
France = 3.96mb
Great Britain = 347kb

The reason I noticed was because I received two of the 4mb files while at work which on top of other emails forced me over my quota.
Why are some files a tiny fraction of the others, is it suppose to be that way? I'm just curious because I think a 4mb transfer file could be a bit excessive especially if you have multiple games going.

Thanks

[Marshall Ellis]

Great question? Don't think it should be??? I'm looking at my files and I cannot find one over 900K large???
Can anybody else tell me if they have PBEM setup files that are 4 MEG in size?
 
 

[therockyfroggy]

We've only gotten to the setup phase and all the files are under 500K.

[petter26]

russia was 3.97 also in our pbem game

[TheBug67]

In my second PBEM which has currently only got to the Prussian setup has both Russia and Austria at 450-550kb but Turkey comes in at 3.91mb. Is there some kind of compression used for the emails that is missing? Because the 4mb ones seem to zip down real small.