Unable to see turn replay

[Cross]

Originally Posted by Mobhack

Well = having fast arty ON is the usual case for a PBEM not seeing the arty in the replay.

Would it be possible and desirable to code Fast Artillery OFF for all PBEM games?

I know it won't solve JWalt's issue, but missing replays has been quite a common problem in my experience. Although it's usually sorted out within a turn or two.

cheers,
Cross

[DRG]

If this was a "quite a common problem " why are we just hearing about it now ?

What's common is one player forgets to turn fast arty off then when the other guy complains he can't see his arty switches it off and then suddenly the problem goes away "within a turn or two"..."Gee IDK what happened... I had it off.......funny it's OK now...."

Either way Andy has told me he will look into the code for fast arty on/off in regards to replays because the "issue" of one player forgetting to turn it off then blaming the game is getting old. Setting it up so that it CANNOT be turned on for PBEM would indeed solve the problem but there might be other solutions that present themselves once the code is looked at

Don

[Imp]

May not be a bad idea just to have fast arty flag set to off for PBEM or better yet have the flag set for both players by the setting up player, so both sides are set the same.

Issues do occur from time to time where one player plays say the AI with fast arty on & forgets to reset it when playing PBEM & this would solve that.

[RightDeve]

Maybe put a warning text on the pbem set up screen, a bold red one.

[DRG]

Originally Posted by RightDeve

Maybe put a warning text on the pbem set up screen, a bold red one.

LIke the note on the first page of the game guide that flashes red about not using autohide taskbar ?

We are going to look into this. I would like to see fast arty work in replays and that would solve all the issues that arise because it doesn't record them now. Fast arty groups all hit's into one record but the game replay record cannot save anything but individual actions. If that can be changed, it will be

Don

[gila]

Originally Posted by RightDeve

Maybe put a warning text on the pbem set up screen, a bold red one.

That would be good but many times, players play the AI and turn it on and then forget to turn it off in pbem, myself included.

Maybe a prompt msg when starting a turn in pbem, to make sure you have fast artillery set *off* before ending your turn.

[RightDeve]

Originally Posted by gila

That would be good but many times, players play the AI and turn it on and then forget to turn it off in pbem, myself included.

Maybe a prompt msg when starting a turn in pbem, to make sure you have fast artillery set *off* before ending your turn.

Maybe I'm wrong, but all I remember is that once a PBeM is set up with a certain changes on the preferences screen, that PBeM battle will stay consistent to that set up regardless of whether you change the settings later on against the AI or even another PBeM battle.

[gila]

Not so as in the case of fast arty,i can count my fingers and toes and then some, when someone forgot to turn it off.
As for other preferences, i'm not really 100% sure if they could changed,but i believe not.

[RightDeve]

Ahh yes, fast arty is indeed different, tried it myself.