Crazy turn in PBW

[PvK]

This happened to me once. I thought my browser had messed up the first time, so I "re-sent" it, but it actually had got it, so it took my re-send as if it were my orders for the next turn, too, which caused the AI to take over a lot of things.

One amusing thing it decided to do was to retrofit my newly-completed colony ship to a specialized Version that was the same but had very few engines!

PvK

[Possum]

Press F11

Click the "Ministers" button

Scroll down to the bottom, where you see the "Minister Options"

Select the bottom one, "AI should not make changes to the empire during a Simultaneous Game"

Make this the FIRST thing you do on the FIRST turn of every PBW game you play

[capnq]

"AI should not make changes to the empire during a Simultaneous Game"

Note, however, that the AI has a rather "creative" interpretation of what "not make changes" means. (In other words, the option doesn't quite do what you'd expect.)

[Skulky]

YES! I'm not entierly sure what the AI thinks "no changes please!" means but i think it was opposite day when that was implemented. Just use NO AI MOD from now on, or be careful submitting turns.
Unless the AI declares war on your long time ally (which can totally F*** up an empire if you are sharing defense, resupply, preparing for a big offensive) it is pretty easy to fix the ship design thing, and any new construction queue items.

MM is doing a great job and this is just a small thing in the grand scheme of thins, probably more related to ppl's carelessness using PBW than anything else.