Ingame notes? SE5 forgets types? Ministers? LAN?

[Sardia]

Hot seat is so much better and faster, no? Especially humans vs comps, with tactical.

[Captain Kwok]

1. You can make notes via the system report. Right click on a sector and you'll see a system report option at the bottom of the list.

2. I've seen this from time to time, not sure what causes it. It's sort of random and will only effect certain planets.

3. Sometimes the internal design type (used by the AI) doesn't match a player's design type. Updating to v1.14a should fix it.

4. You can use PBW for non-hotseat play. Here's a link that explains how it works: http://www.pbw.cc/text/faq.jsp

[Lohr]

Thanks for your answer.

Captain Kwok said:
1. You can make notes via the system report. Right click on a sector and you'll see a system report option at the bottom of the list.
http://www.pbw.cc/text/faq.jsp

Thanks. This is a kind of something, I was searching for.

Captain Kwok said:
2. I've seen this from time to time, not sure what causes it. It's sort of random and will only effect certain planets.
http://www.pbw.cc/text/faq.jsp

o.k.... i doesn't think we find out the reason for it, but we will pay attention to it further.

Captain Kwok said:
3. Sometimes the internal design type (used by the AI) doesn't match a player's design type. Updating to v1.14a should fix it.
http://www.pbw.cc/text/faq.jsp

Well, we look foreward to this in our next game, when we're patching SE5 and your BalanceMod on my machine.

Captain Kwok said:
4. You can use PBW for non-hotseat play. Here's a link that explains how it works: http://www.pbw.cc/text/faq.jsp

We don't want to use the web for playing with 2 physically presented local machines. He is in the neighboring room.
So, is it possible anyhow to play it via local area network on two machines, without using the web? Is there something we may try out? Or is there a known practible method?

[Captain Kwok]

You can play it TCP/IP, but it can be difficult to get it to work smoothly, especially with routers involved!

PBW with 2 players can be just as fast and works smoothly.

Either way the game mode will be simultaneous, so you should be probably familiarize yourself with that game format, it works a bit differently than sequential mode.

[Lohr]

Captain Kwok said:
You can play it TCP/IP, but it can be difficult to get it to work smoothly, especially with routers involved!

If we are planning to play in a LAN, we connect our Computers with a twisted pair cable.

Captain Kwok said:
PBW with 2 players can be just as fast and works smoothly.

Well, we'll try it out, if we can't get working it with TCP/IP in a LAN.

Captain Kwok said:
Either way the game mode will be simultaneous, so you should be probably familiarize yourself with that game format, it works a bit differently than sequential mode.

In our hot-seat-game we are playing with simulaneous turns, already. We are looking foreward to play in a pbem one day, or somthing.

[Suicide Junkie]

You could also try specifying a network drive as the save game location during the game setup.

Then it would be like manual move mode, except you don't actually have to move anything because it is already in the right place.

[Lohr]

Ah, local network drive, nice idea.

We will try this out as soon as our "trash-box" (=a computer made out of old computer components, which we are collecting here and there at the moment) is ready for duty.

Iv've got here an oled netgear router, an old 4 port hub., as well as a twisted par networl cable.

I think, we will try out first the hub, then the twisted pair cable. I think, the the router we may have the smallest success, at all.