IMPORTANT MESSAGE for PBW players and owners regarding 1.84.

geoschmo · #1 January 28th, 2003, 05:58 PM

If you have a game started in 1.78 that you are converting to 1.84 it's very important that you do things in the correct order or the AI will be taking your turn for you. It's more critical then past Versions, and I will explain why.

WARNING
You as a player are able to take a .gam file processed in 1.78 and open it using 1.84 and play your turn. You will not get an error doing so, BUT DO NOT DO THIS. If you do this when the host (PBW) tries to process the turn using 1.84 it will reject your .plr files because they were not created using the same Version of the game as the .gam file.

With previous patches if you opened a .gam file created under the eralier Version you got an error message. You do not get that with this Version. This might lead you to believe it is ok to play your turn using 1.84. This is incorrect.

You have to play your turn using the Version that the host (PBW) used for the LAST turn (the one just processed), not the next turn (the one about to process).

Geoschmo

[ January 28, 2003, 16:05: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

Cirvol · #2 January 28th, 2003, 07:01 PM

and now we know

and knowing is half the battle

thx geo... you should make them to make this a sticky thread, esp considering that lots of peeps will be upgrading their gold games in the near future

Ed Kolis · #3 January 28th, 2003, 08:12 PM

And by "the Version used to execute the Last turn" do you mean "the Version listed on the Last email notification"? Or can the Version listed on the Last email notification be different from the Version used to execute the Last turn? (Since I don't have access to the PBW server I can't see what Version is used to execute every turn, and it's especially confusing since I'm in multiple games!)

capnq · #4 January 28th, 2003, 08:41 PM

Quote:

by "the Version used to execute the Last turn" do you mean "the Version listed on the Last email notification"?

Yes, that's the same thing.

Looking at the Game Info page, you may see that the game is listed as upgraded, even though the turn was processed with the old Version. To be absolutely sure, look at the recent log entries, and see whether the turn was run before or after the game was upgraded.

capnq
PBW admin

jprevott · #5 January 29th, 2003, 03:21 AM

OK. Here comes a dumb question. Started a 1.78 game on PBW. Is PBW going to patch to 1.84 so I will need get all my players to patch also or should games started in 1.78 stay unpatched?

jprevott · #6 January 29th, 2003, 05:03 AM

OK. If I am reading this right PBW is now running 1.84? So the current turn needs to be played using 1.78, then uploaded. PBW processes it in 1.84. Then all my players patch to 1.84 and then we play the next turn in 1.84?
Sound about right?

Quote:

Originally posted by geoschmo:

WARNING
You as a player are able to take a .gam file processed in 1.78 and open it using 1.84 and play your turn. You will not get an error doing so, BUT DO NOT DO THIS. If you do this when the host (PBW) tries to process the turn using 1.84 it will reject your .plr files because they were not created using the same Version of the game as the .gam file.

Geoschmo[/QB]