Rated Challenges Thread

[Geckomlis]

Originally posted by Slynky:

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Originally posted by Geckomlis:

Well, if you think YOU are upset, you should read the e-mail correspondence between me and Master Belisarius on the same subject. We have the same problem, perhaps even worse and longer running than you and Alneyan. This issue has had a significant negative impact on our game. When battles hinge on tech advances and we cannot trade, gift, or tribute tech or ships, what the hell can we do? Grrrr…

I didn't know it was happening to you guys, too. It happened to us one other time, too, when Alneyan was trying to pass ECM 1 to me. It took me 4 or 5 turns to get it. By that time, he gave me ECM 2. But after 6 turns, I had already built 3 complete sets of destroyers (that got their butt kicked later on).

So, what do we do about this? Keep playing and assume it messed up both teams? Start another game knowing about the "gifting" glitch and how to avoid it being a problem?

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IMO, a restart would be optimal. I will play on if that is what everyone else wants – the game is recoverable, but will always be tainted for me.

On a positive note, I have really been enjoying the game in general and the team aspect especially. This is the third team game that I have played and certainly the best. I would like to see more team games.

[Master Belisarius]

[quote]Originally posted by Slynky:

So, what do we do about this? Keep playing and assume it messed up both teams? Start another game knowing about the "gifting" glitch and how to avoid it being a problem?

I vote to continue the game.
After all, the things are starting to be Hot, and don't want to miss the opportunity to blow your planets with my Cloak 3 ships!

About the bug itself accepting a Gift/Trade, I think that if you don't write something into the text (leave the standard message), when you go to Accept, then, you will not receive the Gift/Trade.

After 2 times trying to accept a Gift without results, it worked when I wrote something into the text.... and was not my Last action into the turn.

EDIT: was trying to reproduce the bug in my computer running a simultaneous game between 2 human players, different machines.
All my efforts were futile... the Gift always worked fine!
Even without write a reply or doing more actions after accept the gift... will continue working trying to find the pattern.

[ January 27, 2004, 21:52: Message edited by: Master Belisarius ]

[tesco samoa]

geo that is a great joke...

[Slynky]

We can wait and see what Alneyan says...I would like to hear his opinion. As to me, I can go either way. But like Gecko said, no matter how the game finishes, there will always be the "tainted" feeling.

[Alneyan]

I have to admit I am not sure about what to do, except having the best of both worlds if you are willing to do so. That is, we may finish this game and start another one without this gift bug (hopefully, but I may dream). But I will be fine with going one way or another. (Sorry Slynky, not very helping advice about this matter)

[Nodachi]

I want to toss my two cents in.

Even though I'm not playing in this game I see a serious problem here in the fact that a rated game is being disrupted by a bug. If all the players knew of this bug going in it wouldn't be a big deal, but that's not the case here.

My suggestion would be to either continue but without Ratings or to restart with them. If you guys choose to restart I'll be more than happy to do it for you, but with a new map to eliminate any advantages.

[Master Belisarius]

Maybe I have played during so many times dealing with bugs, that this don't change the things to me (somebody remember the time when the first player ALWAYS had the first shot in the battles?).
The game "Pairs" is full of rated players (I'm not rated there), and although I suffered the "Gift bug" many times during this game (and think the others too!), nobody said the game is screwed.