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Thexder said:
I'm changing my laptop to a new one in two weeks time and was wondering if this causes any problems with the WinSPMBT game files. I'm currently playing four games and at least two of them wont be ready by the time I receive my new laptop and give the old one to my sister.
So should I just istall the game to the new laptop and unzip the old games to the PBEM folder or do I need to do something more complicated in order to make them work?
Thanks,
Jukka
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Absoloutely
NOT as this will screw up the game in progress.
A PBEM game
MUST be played on the exact same PC in the exact same folder it started in and the exact same slot with the exact same OOBS right through its entire game life.
You
CANNOT re-name the save game file if you were already using say slot 2 versus Fred, and Bill sent you a game set up to use slot 2 as well. Get Bill to restart in a slot you both have free - we tell you to agree a slot between players in advance.
You
CANNOT Time-share a slot with more than 1 game (e.g. trying to play games against Bill and Fred, both games are slot 1, and trying to unzipzip each game to slot 1 successively).
Some folk have reported weird results with PBEM games. I am thinking that the following may have happened:
1) A player unzipped his turn several times (Fails increased per such attempt.
2) A player tried to cheat by playing the game in another folder (separate full install of the game so different save path), or another machine (different machine name), which is effectively the same cheat (or not really cheating, but same effect - he used a laptop for some turns when travelling away from home, with a game started on the home desktop PC?).
Solution - if you plan to travel, then start and play that game on your mobile PC and NOT on the home base desktop!
3) A player renamed the PBEM files to another slot ID for some reason
4) A player was trying to "time-share" more than 1 game in the same PBEM slot number.
5) (possibly) - one of the players reinstalled the game for some reason, and then unzipped the PBEM zip into a now reinitialised game.
6) A player decided to move the game install on his machine to say the D: drive from the previous C: drive to make space or whatever available on C: (perhaps), while in the middle of an ongoing PBEM.
Cheers
Andy