PBW Down? - Back up!

[Merry Jolkar]

My players are beginning to get restless. What would be involved for me to manually run the turns until the site comes back up? How would I then return the PBW game to the latest turn?

Thank you,
Merry

[SamuraiProgrammer]

It is not too difficult. We used to play by e-mail all of the time. Then we figured out the PBW and realized how great it was.

Anyway...here is the scoop.

You must have a copy of the Last gam file that was sent. (Any will do, but the most recent is best.) Then have all of the players send their plr files to you.

Put them into the save game folder.

Load the program

Load the game

Indicate that you are the host (the Last player on the list.

Put in the master password for the game.

Run the turn.

Send the gam file to everyone and wait for their plr files.

If there are any errors, you can probably sort it out. The most likely problem is that the first round of plr files will not be the right turn. For the players that have the wrong turn, send them the old gam file and ask them to play that turn, even if they have played it once before.

I hope this is helpful.

[Merry Jolkar]

Thanks for the advice. Two questions:

1) Change of routine creates the possibility for human error. If someone sends me an old or corrupted .plr file, does the host program generate an error message? I'd hate to sned out a .gam file and have someone say "I want to try again".

2) When the PBW site comes back up, how do I pick up with the latest (manually generated) .gam file?

Thanks!
Merry

[Ruatha]

1. You'll get an error message and the option to terminate the current host run to replace the faulty file.

2. On the PBW game admin screen choose "Upload replacement turn manually" and upload the current turn.

No problems.

BTW. All Newbie Galactic 3 Players, the Emergency web site is up for you to upload your turn files, or mail them to me.
If the PBW server get's on-line before the turn is run the turn will be run on the PBW server.
I'm checking to see if i can get the current game files from Geo, in that case I already have almost all player files.

You all got the URL by mail.
The server is behind both a hardware firewall and a NAT router and a software firewall, this should not pose any problem but if you can't reach it mail me asap.

[ August 13, 2003, 07:39: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Merry Jolkar]

Thank you! I know PBW will run the turn even with old .plr files, So, I upload .gam file and this will show all players as having not yet uploaded their .plr files? (i.e., what happens to existing .plrs from before the PBW went down -- can their existence inadvertently trigger the PBW host)?
Thanks, Merry

[Ruatha]

If you upload a replacement turn, I think the old .PLR files are removed an dthe turn you upload will be sent out to all players as a new turn for them to run.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Ruatha:
If you upload a replacement turn, I think the old .PLR files are removed an dthe turn you upload will be sent out to all players as a new turn for them to run.

That is correct.