The SE4 companion - Why the long wait?.

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by aiken:
I'm still confused a bit: how can I manually download new game turn from pbw? Need an advice.

If you set up your PBW username and password, check the pop-up alert and then press the PBW scan button, you will get a question to download, the first time it scans undownloaded turns.
If you don't accept to downöoad then it won't alert again, unless you in the settings screen press the "Clear downloaded list" button.

Will make it more clear in the future.

[ June 15, 2004, 05:19: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Aiken]

Thanks Ruatha, I'll try again later.

[bearclaw]

Originally posted by Ruatha:
Could youy please post the manual command line from the Favorites screen?
Du you have the setting checked to close the event screen when se4 closes?

What error did you get before? What error do you get now?

The manual command line is:
C:\Space Empires IV Gold\Savegame\Starscape VI.gam" "PASSWORD" "5

The game is using a mod which is in:
Space Empires IV Gold\Starscape folder.

I'm not getting any error message. It just keeps kicking back to the main screen. I can still attempt to enter my games but it still does the same thing. It will keep opening multiple copies of the external files though, so that works well.

[geoschmo]

Are you certain you have the password correct? If you try to open a turn from the command line and the player password is incorrect, nothing happens. Se4.exe quits with no error. Actually, I think it does have an exit code that Ruatha might be able to tap and have his companion program put up an error. But se4 wont display the error box on it's own.

[dogscoff]

Is it possible to open sinle player games with this doohickey? It keeps insisting that I'm player 0, and even if I change the command line manually, it won't load the game.
EDIT: No sooner had I typed that than Itried again and it seems to be working now.

Also, is there any danger of me stupidly opening a PBW turn I've already played, hitting quit straiht away and then the companion overwriting my uploaded turn on the server with a blank one?

[ June 15, 2004, 21:28: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

[bearclaw]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Are you certain you have the password correct? If you try to open a turn from the command line and the player password is incorrect, nothing happens. Se4.exe quits with no error. Actually, I think it does have an exit code that Ruatha might be able to tap and have his companion program put up an error. But se4 wont display the error box on it's own.

Checked for that. Everything appears correct.

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by bearclaw:


The manual command line is:
C:\Space Empires IV Gold\Savegame\Starscape VI.gam" "PASSWORD" "5

The game is using a mod which is in:
Space Empires IV Gold\Starscape folder.

I'm not getting any error message. It just keeps kicking back to the main screen. I can still attempt to enter my games but it still does the same thing. It will keep opening multiple copies of the external files though, so that works well.

Hi.
THANKS for posting this info!

I see your problem right away.
It will be fixed in the next Version that is far away..
But I belive you can make it work, but you'll have to locate the mod manually, and I can't guarantee that it'll work. Haven't tried it yet.

The problem is that you are using a savegame in the default savegame folder but a mod in another directory, try to locate the mod directory by using the "BROWSE" button beside the mod text box in the favorite window, that should work, I belive.

Right now it's trying to run it with standard files and it's gettin a "Data files is wrong" error.
Don't type in the mod manually, use the browse button, much better!