Ministers Working Without Permission?

[Aristoi]

I've just had 2 players in my PBW game tell me that their turns were run by the AI. They are both patched and they did upload their turns.

It could be something like the wrong turn year, but 2 in one year seems unlikely.

Has anyone else seen this AI problem with a properly patched Version?

[Cyrus]

I noticed this problem yesterday. Odd research projects, ships returning to refule when I know I didn't want them too, colony ships bypassing going to differnt planets.

The person that started the game said he was upgrading to the newest Version, so I did as well. I guess that the PBW server didn't though.

[geoschmo]

We have received several reports of AI taking turns for players in games being changed over from 1.41 to 1.49. In every case that we have looked at it's one of two problems.

1. The player upgraded to 1.49 before the game was upgraded. Since the game was still on 1.41 it could not process a 1.49 turn and therefore the AI ran the turn.

or

2. The player added a seperate install for 1.49 so they could play 1.41 games and 1.49 games. When it came time to upload the turn, they didn't browse to the right folder and uploaded the Last 1.41 turn instead of the latest 1.49 turn. Since the filename is the same, PBW will take the turn just fine, but will not be able to process it because it's the wrong game turn of course. #2 is a very easy mistake. I've even done it in one game. One player did this for 3 turns in a row before he realized his mistake.

The easiest way to prevent #2 is to delete all the game files from the 1.41 savegame folder for any game that has been upgraded.

I am not saying it's impossible that anything else can cause this problem. But in every case we have actually checked it out, it was one of these two things.

Geoschmo
PBW Admin Team