Pros and Cons

[RonD]

The safest way to play your turns offline:

Connect to your game and download the turn. Do not look at your turn yet, instead exit the game at the nations/"48 hours till next hosting" screen.

Make a temp copy of the whole game directory. Play *that* game at your leisure, offline. I often set a basic strategy and then come back and tweak it a few times after thinking about it. Sometimes I even make 2 temp copies and play with different ideas.

When you are ready to upload, just copy the .2h file from the temp directory into the real game directory and connect to the game.