Turn reporting thread - - Life is Only a Game

[Chaunk]

2106 to Enigma_Nova.

Theres a reload warning because someone checked automatically investigate monoliths. This I do _not_ want checked. Many preferences are common in PBEM's including this one, and whilst for convenience sake it might be simpler, it is not helpful for all! I do not want that morale upgrade from green to discipled, I want it from commando to elite.

Please do not change settings in the preferences section, and if you do, tell us what!

[Enigma_Nova]

Rgr that, Chaunk.
Turn is being played.
/me hopes his plan worked...

EDIT:
WTF is this? How many nut bonuses do I need to pop from these pods? Gimme a Unity Rover, damn it!

EDIT2:
Never mind, popped a unity rover on the next pod.

[Enigma_Nova]

Uhhh... something -really- strange has happened with my turn.

I saved-and-exited after getting that Unity Rover.
The square I popped it obviously had a scout that used all its movement points.
My base was set to produce a colony pod in 1.
Yet, when I open the mid-turn save...

I have 5 more ECs (2 from stockpile pod, 3 from turn)
My Scout patrol has a movement point
My main base is down to size 1 and has produced a pod.

SOMEHOW I've managed to get a whole free turn.
I'll restart the turn, but I'm rerolling to get that Unity Rover I popped earlier.

My dodgy turn is attached, so Googlie can verify I'm not lying to get a unity rover.

[Enigma_Nova]

This is the start turn for 2106

[Enigma_Nova]

And this is me after getting the rover.
30 or something reloads between that one and this.

[Enigma_Nova]

Turn to AndiD.
I hope we find out what the hell happened there... I've never seen an extra turn bug.

[AndiD]

2106 to Detrius.

At least I'm not the only one being confused.

[DetriusXii]

Hey Andi, it happened again. The saved game you sent me is still at your turn.

[Googlie]

yeah - it's in the buglist on the old OWO forums )I have hard copy but not electronic copy)

If you save a game in Multiplayer right after podpopping it'll reset to that same year but with all units refreshed

Stockpile energy will kick in again (if there was any due on that turn originally - so you'll get it twice) as well as labpoints.

I though that the problem had been dealt with in one of the subsequent releases, but on perusing the readme.txt file I can't see any reference to it

I believe that if you do anything after popping the pod but before saving (ie, move a unit or insert into the build queue, etc) then the effect is nullified



G.

[AndiD]

Argh. Made the mistake yesterday, went back into SMAX, corrected it but saved the new file with .sav, not .SAV as suffix. Then freshened the ZIPfile and of course, since .SAV was already in it, the new .sav was not taken. Resend on the way.

@E_N: When saving, would it be possible to use the same filename every time and only switching the year? "Andid210x" sorts differently than "AndiD210x" than "AndiD, 210x" ... and I'm confused enough ATM

[Enigma_Nova]

Yeah, LioaGAndiD21xx works fine.

[DetriusXii]

Turn 2106 sent to Chaunk

[Enigma_Nova]

Now Chaunk and I share 2 PBEMs.
Expect some working together!
(Or some unilateral pwndage, one of the two)

[Chaunk]

2107 to enigma. I've had a few problems with emailing zip files in another game, so let me know if it doesn't work at your end and I'll attatch it here, or send it from a different account.

[Enigma_Nova]

I got a file here.
I'll play it right about now.