[gwichman]

geo - thanks much for looking into it. I agree it's easy to screw up a message but in fact i've been careful all to many times. It's been going on that long. I always confirm that me empire screens show the neccessary "message sent" and whatnot as I did again this time with today's turn.

One recourse I could try it uninstalling the game and reinstalling it from scratch, patching it, and running my turn. I'd be curious to see if this corrects the problem. Maybe it's some kind of degenerative thing that happens? I'll give it a shot tonight. Since it worked for you to send a message it seems likely it's something specific with my installation of SE4

If that doesn't work, the Last thing to do other then reordering when i actually click my Messages (i've probably done that anyways by now) I guess is start sending game files.

I'll keep you posted on what happens tonight after the reinstall.