3 players for a PBEM game

[polarnomad]

Seems I'm not the only one trying to download this patch... Gonna take a while.

[MortVader]

yeah. I say install the patch, make your turn and let's all do the same. See what happens...

[polarnomad]

um... you mean redo my turn from yesterday?

[MortVader]

Yeah. The latest one you got

[polarnomad]

Farfegnüggen! Since I've installed the patch it won't let me get past my password... so I can't even access the game to redo my turn.

[polarnomad]

Y'all went kind of quiet on me...

*checks your pulses*

[MortVader]

oh great.. so we start over. Is everybody still with us, then? That is, you all want to start over? Same specs. Choose your new leaders if you want.

I think I'll take Cyrus this time over..

[polarnomad]

Sure I'm willing to start over. I'll take Catherine this time. Can we change the map size to tiny though? If you'd rather not that's fine too.

[MortVader]

I prefer duel-size since it will make the game relatively short (this IS pbem). I will go with tiny though, if the majority wants it.

[polarnomad]

I see your point.

[MortVader]

but where did the american-flag guys go?

[marcsterix]

Hmmm, I just played my turn before applying the patch...then I installed the patch...then I read this post. Oops.

Anyway, I don't think it should affect the save, but it would be a good idea for everyone to upgrade anyway.

Happy Thanksgiving (belated).

[polarnomad]

So, then the turn would be with John-SJ...

@John-SJ: Did you apply the patch? If so, are you able to access the save?

[John-SJ]

Okay, I have not installed the patch yet until I found what is going on with PBEM games. It doesn't sound good.

But I am not willing to put off the patch indefinitely for PBEM games (I am involved in others besides this one) because I see a real benefit to my single player games as well.

So, I will try an experiment. I will attempt to open and play the save pre-patch, then apply the patch and repeat the experiment.

Oh, and I have no problem restarting this game if it will be restarted as a patch-player game.

[John-SJ]

Well, I get the same thing. After the patch I cannot get beyond the password prompt.

If we are going to restart, I suppose there is no real reason to pass on the unpatched save, right?

There is one thing that might be worth trying. Can the game admin reset the password of each player to no password? I doubt it will work but it might be worth a try.

*SIGH*