Another PBEM bug?
 

british (player2) assault vs Germany (player1), Feb 45

player1 buys, player2 buys and deploys

Now player2 or player1 opens the turn and enters a wrong password 3 times, deployment for player1 is skipped, but the bombardment is shown.
So player1 can see the bombardment before deployment.
If player2 has plotted bombardment near player1's edge of the map player2 can see the units player1 has bought. If he destroys/routs them he is even told the units name.

There is no warning of wrong path, but they are different.

Shouldn't entering a wrong password 3 times skip everything (not just deployment) and jump directly to the main screen?

I don't know if this shows on the load/fail counter as my opponent really has forgotten his password (took me, player2, ages to complete deployment). While trying possible passwords he encountered this problem. And I could reproduce it with the same save files despite playing on a different machine with a different path to the game.

I hope this helps closing a possible security leak.

Btw, the in-game help needs an update, it says to extract the pbem-files to the EMAIL folder, but it's the PBEM Games folder.

Popski[PPA]

Re: Another PBEM bug?
 

Thanks, We'll look into it and fix the help file

Don