Peterk Posted December 2, 2000 Share Posted December 2, 2000 I'm playing a large operation with an opponent using a combination of TCP-IP and e-mail and he's just reported that the game advanced a turn without giving him the option to make any moves. Has anyone else noticed this. It's probably not a bug per-se but just a procedural thing that we're supposed to respect when playing this way that we don't know about. The sequence of events went something like this: 1. I loaded a PBEM game that I received from him (a non-movie file in which he had made his moves but I did not). 2. I saved the game. 3. Later that evening I loaded that game and set ip up as a TCP/IP match. 4. He connected with me and we played several turns. 5. When our 2 scheduled hours or so had ended. We both watched the movie of the last turn we were able to play that evening and hit GO. I saved the game at that point and we disconnected. 6. The next day I loaded the game back up as an e-mail game, made my moves and sent off the file. 7. My opponent received a movie file instead of getting the opportunity to make his moves. Should moves be made before deciding to terminate a TCP/IP game and continue as an e-mail? p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasToast Posted December 2, 2000 Share Posted December 2, 2000 I've been wondering about this transition also. Any guidelines? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasToast Posted December 3, 2000 Share Posted December 3, 2000 OK, I think I saw this again. We saved out of network game at the start of a turn, before giving any orders. My opponent sent me the next email turn and it started with a movie. I did not get to issue orders for that turn. In this case my opponent saved the game - perhaps only the one that saves gets to do orders in the first PBEM turn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterk Posted December 3, 2000 Author Share Posted December 3, 2000 It's definitely a bug and the report is getting sent in. I ran some more experiments and it doesn't seem possible to do it properly the way it is now. 1 player will always lose the chance to move stuff. p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Mauldin Posted December 5, 2000 Share Posted December 5, 2000 Yeah this happened to me too. We ended a TCP/IP session and when we resumed in PBEM I missed a turn. (Fortunatly I was getting waxed anyway, so it didnt matter!) ------------------ Randy aka Prairiedog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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