Cheats find another way...

[Pepper]

One workaround to this problem, which is infuriating, is to replay from the turn prior to the error. So long as your email saves outgoing mail, your opponent will have a copy of it to resend and you can try to replay it from there.
Not sure if that will eventually result in problems, but its an option ...
Actually -- if Andy or Don knows whether that approach will eventually fail I'd like to know now to scrap 2 games I have in progress, one where I accidentally tried to open game on wrong install and one where my opponent (I won't mention who embis, so as to preserve your privacy! =) did.

Here is the work-around I've used: Just take the last "good" save that you accidentally tried to play out of wrong installation, and reinstall that same file in the correct slot and go from there. I figure the correct install doesn't know what happened on the incorrect install, and unless the security system uses some kind of quantum-physics-esque "i know whats going on over there" string-theory type of knowledge, the game should be none the wiser.
Regards, Pepper

[Mobhack]

Why run separate installations - unless one is of an older exe say, when upgrading from the download version to CD edition say ?.

If you need one for your custom OOBS - then we provide the OOB file maid utility, so all you need do is put your custom OOBS into a custom sub-folder and then use the file maid to load the appropriate OOB set on starting up via GameOptions Utility tab "Manage OOB Sets" button to get to the file maid utility. See the manual for the details about how to set the folders up. (There is a default OOBS folder for the file maid to restore the standard OOB set from)

Cheers
Andy

[czerpak]

I run separate installs for tourneys e.g.