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I'm sorry for the worry I have created. The reality is even more fun. The games you are player are most likely still at 2.12.. The Version only changes after a restart, which is why i didn't feel an advance warning was necessary. As the Version the games were started on is available nowhere there is no good way to know which Version you should use. Isn't that fun?

Actually, in the old days, IllWinter made the patches so that playing with different Versions were impossible. I liked that better http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

To solve the problem now, I could kill every single game, but in such a way that all games will appear to still be running. Then the game owners can restart when they feel they are ready. In this way, the game slots cannot be stolen.

Is that a better way to do the upgrades?

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Hmm, so you're saying that in fact all games are still running on 2.12 until the owners decide to restart? I suppose that should have been obvious, but I didn't really think about it.

In that case I take it back. You just announce that you've installed the upgrade, and every game can decide when they want to change Versions (though I guess circumstances might force their hands)

I guess we'll all be a bit clearer on how it works next time it happens.

Mark

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Esben Mose Hansen,

you rock. It's just that simple.

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esben does rock

but you know how he could rock even harder? by implementing a "force to anonymous" option or some other sort of force kick. Too often someone joins but doesn't register in the thread, and so ignores a game's special rules. I've almost needed to have this option before, and the only way at the moment is to nuke the whole game and recreate it...

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Just drop me an email or PM when you need to do this. At some point I'll get annoyed enough to implement it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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lol heh thanks esben

:p

though really, what would be great now that zen is coming out w/ these very interesting "conceptual balance" mods, is integrating a mod dropdown menu in game creation...

;-)

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That I will make, as soon as I find the time to do so. That should shut up 95% of the "I hate [clams/VQ/False Horror/...] threads until they are backed up by testing :-D

Besides, the code is essentially the same as for maps, so it shouldn't be that hard to do.

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Several people (all?) cannot get past the waiting for game data screen on on the Musical Chairs game...I know this problem happens once in a while and the workaround is to just keep trying and eventually you get past it but that doesn't seem to be working now...I am wondering if the new patch has made this intermittent problem harder to get past...

Any other games/players having this problem?

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no, the fix is almost always to have the owner of the game stop and restart the game.

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As an extra bonus, this should bring the game to 2.14, where another network bug should have been squashed... so maybe the problem will disappear all together http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif