MP Game - European War

Cainehill · #1 October 14th, 2004, 11:05 PM

Was there a restart? I had done my turn yesterday, but just got a stale turn, and am now in a different starting position. *sigh*

This rather sucks. No research, no recruitment, etc.

Graeme Dice · #2 October 14th, 2004, 11:15 PM

Quote:

Cainehill said:
Was there a restart? I had done my turn yesterday, but just got a stale turn, and am now in a different starting position. *sigh*

There was the one restart, which I suppose caused the problem.

Has anyone else had any problems with the first turn? I'd like Cainehill to have at least one game run on my server that didn't get screwed up in the first turn.

Cainehill · #3 October 14th, 2004, 11:20 PM

So much for Marignon having the perfect starting position - the Papal Estates.

Feh. I take it you did something like deleting the homeland file and restarted the game, but didn't wipe the whole directory? So it saw the .2h files and processed the turn, before throwing some of them out because they didn't match the game.

Truper · #4 October 14th, 2004, 11:54 PM

No problems here.

Graeme Dice · #5 October 15th, 2004, 12:00 AM

Quote:

Cainehill said:
So much for Marignon having the perfect starting position - the Papal Estates.

Nah, Marignon should be started in Avignon or Spain.

Quote:

Feh. I take it you did something like deleting the homeland file and restarted the game, but didn't wipe the whole directory? So it saw the .2h files and processed the turn, before throwing some of them out because they didn't match the game.

I did wipe the whole directory, which is why I'm confused here. Perhaps it didn't download the new .trn file because it had the same turn number as your old one?

Cainehill · #6 October 15th, 2004, 12:14 AM

Looking at the time stamps on our Messages here, I suspect that I got connected in a short time window (about 1/2 hour) where I got the original .trn file, and uploaded my .2h based on the original .trn file.

Didn't notice the post saying the game had been restarted with a different .map file, which meant that I needed to wipe _my_ directory and do things over, so in a sense it's my own fault, albeit I was looking for new Messages posted after mine.

This is a good reason for renaming the game, and thus the game directory, in cases like this where you're restarting the game and not just the server. Otherwise you need to make sure everyone knows that they need to delete the directory on their machine to avoid problems.

Zen · #7 October 15th, 2004, 01:03 AM

Apparently I as well, was given the "HAND OF WRATH" starting stale. The great void has said that to even the playing field, the wild groves of Pangaea must wait a season to begin their ultimately victorious conquest.

I'm okay with mine, though I don't know if anyone else is.

alexti · #8 October 15th, 2004, 01:14 AM

Right, keeping the same name causes the stale problem. I'm pretty sure I have posted a warning about that yesterday, right after Graeme has announced restart. But I don't see my post now. Conspiracy!

Unless I've posted it to some other thread (or to some other board) by mistake

Cohen · #9 October 15th, 2004, 01:35 AM

It's normal to start with 1 province only in the middle of mine and someone else capitol?