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Details:

I'm in one of the Elimination Tournament games on Admiral's PBW site. On my Last turn, I ordered a ship to retrofit to a new design which I had just created. When the turn results came back, the ship had been retrofitted not to the design I'd ordered, but to a different design with a class name from one of the other players' files. The refitted ship included a component that I haven't researched yet, and this class doesn't appear anywhere in my F3 reports.

I suspect that the problem was caused by the design being created on the same turn as the retrofit order. That works in a sequential game, but I'm thinking that in simultaneous, SE IV tried to do the retrofit before the design file was updated, and sent off the wrong pointer for the design. This theory would also explain the other retrofit problem I had earlier in the game, which I'd attributed to the known retrofit problems in simultaneous games that have already been reported on these Boards. On the first retrofit I tried, the turn came back with a warning in the Log that the retrofit had failed because the ships were not the same size. (The second retrofit I tried worked perfectly.)

Has anybody else seen retrofit behavior like this in simultaneous games?

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Cap'n Q


The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft