PBEM 23 Organizing/Tech Thread

[mackoti]

Happy new year.
So I go for few days and all this is happenning?

Great to see that you made peace and the game is moving.

Still not on my computer,i had problems with electricy at my home and i have just a desktop,sory about the slow turns.

The situation can go on few more days.

[pindicator]

sorry for the delay, new years eve became too busy to get teh turn in. we'll get the turn played today

[SevenSpirits]

Hi, it turns out that in the last turn we took, almost all of our actions (unit moves / city micro) didn't take. I even have the save from just before ending turn to prove it! I don't want to make all you guys replay it though so I'd just like to know which of our diplo offers went through. That seems pretty important to know in this game.

Please all PM me what diplo offers you received from me last turn. Thanks!

[darrelljs]

Is that a bug ?

Darrell

[SevenSpirits]

Is that a bug ?

Darrell

It's some sort of bug. Here's what happened:

1) I load up the save, make a couple obvious moves, save it and send it to novice.
2) Novice does some city micro and a few moves, saves it and sends it back.
3) I open the save from novice, play the majority of the turn, save it again, and hit enter. Everything seems fine.

When we get back the save, it's as if I had force-ended-turn after step 1.

It seems to be one of the many possible glitches that can occur when you load multiple pbem saves in a session. My anecdotal experience is they can be avoided if you exit to main menu, rather than loading a save while in-game. I probably didn't do that, so it's pretty much my own fault. We can eat a turn of unit actions and subpar city configuration so war turns don't have to be replayed. It's really annoying but there's no good solution.

[Sian]

i do not believe the pbem system was made for teams sharing a civ in mind ... and honestly if i should brainchild a game of any kind, which would have a pbem feature, making sure that pbem's could be sent back and forth before another one getting it,would be close to the bottom of the list, very likely getting striked due to a very high ratio of coding time against usability

[SevenSpirits]

i do not believe the pbem system was made for teams sharing a civ in mind ... and honestly if i should brainchild a game of any kind, which would have a pbem feature, making sure that pbem's could be sent back and forth before another one getting it,would be close to the bottom of the list, very likely getting striked due to a very high ratio of coding time against usability

Sending it back and forth isn't an issue; it's saving partway through the turn and then loading that save back up without exiting to main menu first. I've never had the problems manifest themselves in this way before though. Usually, you notice when you load the save if things are wonky, and can exit/re-load at that point.

I'm still waiting on some diplo-related info. It seems there might even have been weirder stuff going on...

[mackoti]

I got no diplo and tracker says save itswith Fierce...

[novice]

I got no diplo and tracker says save itswith Fierce...

Yeah we've played the turn after the buggy one as well now, it's with Luddicator now apparently. Mist hasn't been around to update the tracker page.

[pindicator]

Yeah, that means Luddite & I now. I was traveling yesterday but I'll get things rolling again on our end.