PBEM players, lets report the bugs.

[Adagio]

I've read that review also, but I have also read somewhere else, that such feature wont be in the game...

[alva]

It sure isn't

And PTW slows down my system after closing while I try to send the save. It takes ages to open my mail.

[255]

Considering that you have to input an Administrator Password when you start the game, one would conclude that the ability to change settings/player names etc. exists. If if does, has anyone found it, or any "Administrator" functionality?

255

[Conqueror]

Originally posted by alva
And PTW slows down my system after closing while I try to send the save. It takes ages to open my mail.

I have very similar bug, hard disk works like crazy (for no obivious reason) for almost five minutes after closing PTW, making every program work very slowly. This should not happen with 1,6 ghz processor and 1 gt ram.

And altho this has been reported before somewhere: my outlook express toolbar is totally wiped from any buttons after playing PTW. Thats why i use alternate mail clients to send PTW saves

[Adagio]

Originally posted by alva
It sure isn't

And PTW slows down my system after closing while I try to send the save. It takes ages to open my mail.

I've got the same problem, though I don't only have problems with my mail, but also with IE

[alva]

IE is slower too for awhile, but 'recovers' faster then my mail prog.

I too have 768 MB of DDR ram, should be suffient IMHO.
(That's enough to hold a complete installment of win 98 )

Another I just thought of,

- Fonts are messed up in the players screen, the players names to be more specific.

[delmar]

Geez, I'm glad I looked at this thread. I thought I screwed up something with my computers settings, that's why the browsers (IE for sure, but I think Netscape as well) hog the CPU for about 30 seconds after exiting from PTW. I don't hear the harddisk working like hell, it just that the browser takes up 100% of the CPU. Quite scary, I'm glad Firaxis is specializing in games and not virus development -- imagine what they could do if they really tried...

As for PBEM games/settings/loading from the Multiplayer screen: I used to think that the problem is simply that the game doesn't contain these settings, so if you load it through the Multiplayer screen then the settings will be whatever you specified on that screen just prior to loading the game. But then we ran into this Accelerated Production problem in the Double or Nothing PBEM where loading the game explicitily set Acc.Prod. ON even though it was turned off in the settings panel before I loaded the SAV.

Not sure if this was mentioned before, and it might be just another "settings" problem, but setting the difficulty level (I mean in a way that the game actually stays at that level) is impossible, too.

[Beta]

Originally posted by 255
Considering that you have to input an Administrator Password when you start the game, one would conclude that the ability to change settings/player names etc. exists. If if does, has anyone found it, or any "Administrator" functionality?

255

255 - Agreed. But no, one as of yet, has found out how to do it. Or if they have, they haven't shared it.

And I am still playing with my predecessor's name in the pbem game I took over for him. This isn't effecting game play at all - just mildly annoying.

[alva]

You can use the admin password to change a players password. Maybe that's the way it works?(have not tried this myself, picked it up somewhere else)

[alva]

Ohh, and another thing,

But I'm not sure if this a bug or a feature.

Apparantly there is NO War Weariness in MP games
Just about the most important feature of religious has been dumped...
I anyone could verify this.

[Dis]

my civ3 only takes about 5 seconds to clear the memory. You can tell if you try to start civ3 again after exiting you will get not enough free memory message. But after 5 seconds I can do anything I want.

I'm one of the lucky ones


I think I heard that about war weariness. That sucks because I love religious civs. going to communism would be pointless then. Hmmm.

I hate it when they make decisions for us. I guess they figured most people would just want to wage war in multiplayer and not be bothered by war weariness. But some of us want to play multiplayer like the original civ3.

[alva]

my civ3 only takes about 5 seconds to clear the memory.

Civ3 or PTW ???
I don't have this prob with civ, only with PTW
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[Hot_Enamel]

my civ3 only takes about 5 seconds to clear the memory. You can tell if you try to start civ3 again after exiting you will get not enough free memory message. But after 5 seconds I can do anything I want.

I am the same .. about 5 seconds for everything to clear itself....PTW

And I am running a 700Mhz Athlon with 256 Ram

[Dis]

actually it might be like 2 seconds . It only gives me a low memory message if I restart immediately after closing down.

Has this war weariness been verified? I have been using almost exclusively religious civs. I may have to rethink that.

[delmar]

Memory is cleaned up immediately for me. The browser is still slow for a while.