Mothball Message During PBeM Turn Generation
 

I am hosting a PBeM game v1.41 and during the host turn generation I got a popup message for another player saying "Cannot Mothball: You cannot mothball a ship carrying cargo." Obviously this is an error, does MM know about it?

Re: Mothball Message During PBeM Turn Generation
 

Why is this a bug? It's intended this way.

Re: Mothball Message During PBeM Turn Generation
 

I think the problem is that it showed up during turn generation rather than during a player's turn.

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Re: Mothball Message During PBeM Turn Generation
 

That's it exactly. I'm the host, not the player whose ships can't be mothballed. It actually stops the generation until I clear the message.

Obviously, no Messages should be displayed during that time.

Re: Mothball Message During PBeM Turn Generation
 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>That's it exactly. I'm the host, not the player whose ships can't be mothballed. It actually stops the generation until I clear the message.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>ISTR that the PBW server had this same problem early in its development, until somebody found some "pop-up" killing freeware that automatically clears those Messages. Search the PBW forums if nobody pipes up here first with more details.

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OK, I found the details myself. Georgig wrote a custom program for PBW to deal with this, because none of the freeware they tried was adequate. That's less helpful to you than I thought it could be.

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[This message has been edited by capnq (edited 02 September 2001).]