Jaguar - finished, Szumo declared winner

[Loren]

llamabeast said:
Yep. Nobody panic! I've worked out what went wrong. It's my fault. I was messing with things because of some problems I had earlier with Chinchilla. The Golden Rule I am learning from running this server - don't mess with things! You'll always do it wrong then everything will go pear-shaped.

Give me a few minutes to find your 2h files from the e-mail backup (it lost them in the time-warp unfortunately) and I will rehost the turn.

Good--it's not willing to take my current turn, it says it's turn 20 but it wants 17.

[llamabeast]

Whew, fixed. That was messy. I had to go through the back-up inbox (I get all the the LlamaServer e-mails to forward to a gmail account, and now I'm glad of it!). The LlamaServer gets loads of e-mails in a day now, it's quite hard to find all the ones for a particular game. Anyway, all done now.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Llamabeast, consider Thunderbird or something to back up your emails (leave copy or something), I use the filters to stuff all "Jaguar" games into a single folder.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

I seem to be the only chatty one, but here's a little report.

I spent 580 gold trying to buy mercenaries away from R'lyeh, and yet they still got ALL the mercs. I even cannibalized all my fire and earth gems. Fortunately, they don't seem to be nearby. I say fortunately, because I'm invading their virtually undefended provinces.

Before cannibalizing all those gems, though, I forged four Dwarven Hammers for 48 gems.

[llamabeast]

The game sent a message this turn saying that Man had cheated. Unfortunately it seems to do this from time to time - I think it happens when someone cancels units they had queued on a previous turn or something.

Anyway, although I'm certain Loren's trustworthy, just to be sure I took the considerable liberty of checking Man's turn, taking great care not to look at anything but the treasury section at the top and covering the rest of the screen (sorry for even doing that Loren). I can confirm Man definitely didn't cheat.

[llamabeast]

Anyway, i thought my fear+awe E9 F4 ciclops pretender would do much better against those o-bakemono...he routed much too early

I meant to say before - me too! Your pretender was very well-designed and solid, I was staggered he got killed.

[Loren]

llamabeast said:
The game sent a message this turn saying that Man had cheated. Unfortunately it seems to do this from time to time - I think it happens when someone cancels units they had queued on a previous turn or something.

Anyway, although I'm certain Loren's trustworthy, just to be sure I took the considerable liberty of checking Man's turn, taking great care not to look at anything but the treasury section at the top and covering the rest of the screen (sorry for even doing that Loren). I can confirm Man definitely didn't cheat.

I had several strange things happen, all my scouting reports are as if the canceled turn 20 had executed (I *DID* submit one before the rollback)--I see the provinces they were ordered to move to, I do *NOT* see the provinces they were currently in.

I'm thinking that perhaps the game also figured my expenses based on that canceled turn--they would have been slightly lower. I don't have the info around to confirm or deny this idea. Does anyone know how this might be checked?


Incidentally, my hero in Glimmering Fields was not an attack on whoever's province it was. That was some sort of random event I have never seen other than as LA Ermor. There's no note in my turn report about his arrival, just about him taking the province.

[llamabeast]

Ooh, Loren - I know why you're getting all this weird behaviour (although it doesn't explain the cheating report at all) - make sure to delete all 2h files in your Jaguar folder. Then look again, and it should be back to normal.

Surprisingly the 2h files contain information about the state of play. Being as you had your erroneous "turn 20" 2h in the folder (which is actually also a turn 17), it will have thrown things.