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Old January 10th, 2010, 12:49 AM
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Default Re: Noobs & Vets: Rise of the AI Menace. EA, BI, Running.

One of the players sent messages with gold and items to other members of his team. 20 messages were sent and properly processed by the game.
(this much is verified by the game logs)

He didnt notice that the "## message sent" counter stopped incrementing at 20. In other words at message 21 it did not say "21 messages sent". Apparently he had not run into this in solo or blitz play (understandable I guess since those rarely involve so many messages)

Also they found out that messages over 20 do not return the items.

They feel this is a bug and wish to redo the turn. Im guessing to more selectively send fewer items and retain the lost goods.

Pretty much all of our rollbacks have been caused by player action so far.

The precedent is....
Since this is partially a "newbies learning multiplayer" game should "I didnt know" learning experience constitute a rollback and redo. Particularly if an incident is not easily verified. Possibly not a problem with this one but it opens a door for misuse later.
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