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Old May 6th, 2003, 07:54 PM
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Default Re: Simultaneous game issue

Grand Lord Vito>
I think Geo explained it quite well.
What doesn't work is to make alot of changes in the turn, save the turn as it is, quit the game, load it and continue the same turn with the changes you've already made still there.
Each time you restart a simultaneous game it resets the orders you've entered the current turn.

To save previous turns you just need to save the old .GAM files, then load one of those.
Put them in an other directory if you wish and name them after the turn i e 2401.GAM, 2402.GAM if you are playing solo. If you want combat and ship movement replays you'll need to save those aswell but they are not necessery to see what had happened that turn.
To reload choose change directory and pick the turn you wish to view, but the orders you entered that turn won't be visible, you'll have to load the next consecutive turn and see the results to see what you decided to do, only orders that have spilled over from previous turns will be seen!
You can in this way by only saving the GAM file enter new orders and roll back the game aswell.

In PBW it's even easier, just save the ZIP files!
Ofcourse you can't "roll back" the game here but you can follow the events (I'd really like a working good replay function)

BUT, you cannot in any known way at the present time save your current turn in simultaneous, quit the game, restart and pick up where you left off.
I'm quite certain of this

Edit:typo and removed something about a replay button...

[ May 06, 2003, 19:01: Message edited by: Ruatha ]
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