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Thanks for the advice. Two questions:

1) Change of routine creates the possibility for human error. If someone sends me an old or corrupted .plr file, does the host program generate an error message? I'd hate to sned out a .gam file and have someone say "I want to try again".

2) When the PBW site comes back up, how do I pick up with the latest (manually generated) .gam file?

Thanks!
Merry

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1. You'll get an error message and the option to terminate the current host run to replace the faulty file.

2. On the PBW game admin screen choose "Upload replacement turn manually" and upload the current turn.

No problems.

BTW. All Newbie Galactic 3 Players, the Emergency web site is up for you to upload your turn files, or mail them to me.
If the PBW server get's on-line before the turn is run the turn will be run on the PBW server.
I'm checking to see if i can get the current game files from Geo, in that case I already have almost all player files.

You all got the URL by mail.
The server is behind both a hardware firewall and a NAT router and a software firewall, this should not pose any problem but if you can't reach it mail me asap.

[ August 13, 2003, 07:39: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

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Thank you! I know PBW will run the turn even with old .plr files, So, I upload .gam file and this will show all players as having not yet uploaded their .plr files? (i.e., what happens to existing .plrs from before the PBW went down -- can their existence inadvertently trigger the PBW host)?
Thanks, Merry

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If you upload a replacement turn, I think the old .PLR files are removed an dthe turn you upload will be sent out to all players as a new turn for them to run.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That is correct.

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I don't wish to sound impatient. But, is there any kind of ETA on when PBW will be up and running again, or maybe even an update on what's going on.
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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">There is a tech at this very moment onsite trying to figure out what the problem with the line is. Unfortunatly that's all I know right now. Assuming they find the problem in the next couple hours, something of which I am confident but by no means certain, the site will be back up and accesable this evening. Once the DSL line is fixed I have a bit of router re-configuiring to do. I can't do that till I get home from work but it shouldn't take too long once I do.

If they can't find the problem with the DSL line, well I don't care to think about that for the moment.
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Geoschmo

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Take something precious to him hostage, demand satisfaction. Take his Nextel, they all have Nextels.

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... err, what's a Nextel?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif , something masquerading as a phone.