Your 1.71 multiplayer woes. |
While reading the forum of Galactic Domination 3 (I was curious to see what my empire has become), I found out that this game was stopped because of recurrent problems:
"None of these ships had to pass through the warp point or past our weapons, they've just appeared there. No combat. I verified in the diplomatic menu that we are indeed at war."
It seems that this bug was caused because the game has grown to be "too big" (ironic considering what kind of game SE5 wants to be) - too many units had to be tracked. Unit limit was set to 10.000 per player.
I'd like to players to comment on the most annoying bugs they've encountered in multiplayer, and how they managed to circumvent them - so that new players don't fall in the same trap - a multiplayer game demanding an important investment in time and energy, it's a shame for any multiplayer game to go to waste.
Re: Your 1.71 multiplayer woes.
That's not a bug. The game host did not add the players' empires in the correct order.
Re: Your 1.71 multiplayer woes.
That's what I feared. Alas, the host does not reply to e-mails or read the game forum ...
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Re: Your 1.71 multiplayer woes.
We had one in our game where some guy who shall remain nameless. His password stopped working after I think the forth or so turn. He struggled with it a while, then left the game in a huff. Three different replacement players tried to take over, and none of them could get the password to work. We eventually wound up turned his empire over to the AI.
I rather suspect this is not really a bug, but the dumb shlub forgetting his password. But I've got no proof, so...
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-old military saying, source unknown
Re: Your 1.71 multiplayer woes.
Can't the admin reset it in such case?
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Re: Your 1.71 multiplayer woes.
Maybe he was the admin? 
Otoh, I have the impression that sometimes PBW still sends wrong passwords... or maybe it's the players whose empires I took over that didn't input the same password on PBW and in their empire file?
Re: Your 1.71 multiplayer woes.
Here's a fresh one: new game of SE5 V1.71 with Balance Mod v1.14a. I am 4th player on PBW but the starting savegame lists me as 8th. Naturally, it only saves a plr file for player 8, but PBW still expects a file for player 4 and refuses the upload. I have never encountered this before or any mention of it.
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