PBEM players, lets report the bugs.

[Conqueror]

Quote from Firaxis employee :"if you do not report the bugs, they will not be fixed"

This is why we each individually should report the bugs we encounter in our (Play By Email) PBEM games, so that in the future we might enjoy bug-free and fun gaming with our Play-the-World's.

For example the notorious difficulty level "always Regent/Chieftain" bug, how many of you has reported it, even propably many of you have suffered from it.

More known bugs:

-Being able to open someone elses turn.

-Having to load PBEM game from MP screen, otherwise game wont work properly. (Happened atleast in one PBEM - using the MP screen loading corrected the errors we had otherwise almost every turn.)

-I/O error occures when loading the game. Usually when previous player plays the turn again and messes around in preferences screen before saving, the bug goes away.

-Expiring peace treaty with another human player causes them to somehow automatically declare war on you and the game crashes, solution : renegotiate peace with that player before ending your turn.

- ' Drigate ' bug, solution here http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...32#post1878032

I just reported these bugs, and i hope that some of you are also inspired to do so reading this mail.

Easy way to report PtW bugs via this form:

http://www.ina-support.com/YANFPHPF/mailform_front_page.php

Good Luck in your PBEM games

[alva]

Being able to open some elses turn comes to mind
Having to load games from the MP screen..

That's it for now

ps: Conquror, will you edit them in your first post?

[self biased]

alva, i don't load my PBEM games, or my regular games from the MP screen.

[Soltz]

I'm in a couple of PBEM games (not as a host though) and I've been able to load my turns without going into the MP screen.

Maybe I've been lucky!

[alva]

@ self biased:

and you havn't run into problems yet...like accelerated production suddenly appearing, etc....

[Beta]

Well, this post will bring this thread back up, and result in a few more suggestions.

Mine is a re-hash of the MP screen one. It is a pain.

There should be a Pbem option on the main screen - and it should take you right to load saves screen from which you choose the save you want to play.

Saves in a pbem game should be tagged as such to prevent then from being opened under the single player option and thus subject to - er - well you know.

And the administrator of the game should be able to make certain modifications - for instance - change the name of a leader when players change. I have taken over a game for someone else, and I have to play under that name (unless anybody know how to change it - in which case - please post.)

[Adagio]

Preferences bug... please save the game preferences on the computer, and not in the save-game (It's annoying to load other peoples preferences when loading a PBEM game)

[Dis]

this thread should be topped.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by ADG
Preferences bug... please save the game preferences on the computer, and not in the save-game (It's annoying to load other peoples preferences when loading a PBEM game)

Seconded. That's annoying as hell .

Another one: Saving a PBEM turn and reloading it again nets you another turn of production, food and commerce. I haven't tried it yet, but with enough patience it could be possible to get to Modern Armor in 4000Bc this way. Also, doing this sometimes opens the game for your successor without password and lets you spy him out completely and even moving his units. This is a game breaking bug!

Oh, and did I mention to save the preferences separate from the game?

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

When you load the game the correct way the background is centered on the area of the team prior to you.

If you have explored that area it will show behind your password prompt, otherwise it will be black in shrouds of the fog of war.

I don't think this is a bug, as just an unthought advantage in that you can always know where the team prior to you is at and send explorers straight for them.

[Dis]

Can someone please top this thread?

OK I think I have figured out how accelerated production gets turn on. Because I have done it.

If you load a game through the multiplayer setup screen any game rules that you have checked before you load the game will incorporate itself into the game you are loading. I hope this makes sense.

so the last game I created had accel. prodution turned on. When I load another game through the multiplayer setup screen, if I don't uncheck accel. production it will end up into the other game I just loaded.

I never noticed this before because I have always loaded as a single player game.

but of course this can accidently reveal a starting position. Although that has never happened to me.

Anyways the game rules you have checked for creating a multiplayer game should not carry over into the game you load from the multiplayer screen. That is how it is supposed to be.

[Dis]

Thanks to the mysterious toppper who topped this thread.

[Hot_Enamel]

Not quite a bug...but still annoying.
PTW should be linked to your email client to make emailing the file a lot easier.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Hot_Enamel
Not quite a bug...but still annoying.
PTW should be linked to your email client to make emailing the file a lot easier.

[lmtoops]

I had read in a review that said sending saves within the game was a feature of PTW. I haven't been able figure out how to do it.