Help needed badly: Trouble with in-game communication

[Arkcon]

It comes up occasionally that there is a bug in the diplomacy function. It's hard to know what causes it, and its not known if its fixed. The workaround is to do something other than diplomacy at the start of the turn.

Open a construction window, check a planet, move a ship, then respond to a treaty request or do other diplomacy. Otherwise the message does appear to your opponent. Like I said, its a bizarre bug.

But your specific problem, that you send a message, and you don't get the "Message sent" flag in the races window, is a new one to me. You're not accidentally pressing the [CANCEL] button are you? I've done that a lot myself.

[ April 04, 2004, 11:33: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

[Shnikshnak]

No, I promise, I did not!

I tried sending the Messages at the end of the turn, too. No better results.
Humm-humm ... but thanks for your hint!

Regards
Shnikshnak

[primitive]

It happens (very very seldom) that the EMP file becomes corrupted and some unexplained bugs occurs. Try to save your EMP file and start a testgame and see if you can send messsages.

If you still can't, then its EMP file and unfortunately there are no recovery.

[Shnikshnak]

Thanks for the hint again!
I built up my SE4 repository a second time, looks like it works now (I have the "message sent" flag at least).
After the turn processing I will know it for sure.

Regards
Shnikshnak

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Hey look, half a vorpal sword!

* just bugging you.