My one major gripe!

[Jubala]

A big fat tumbs down for this extremely annoying message:

"During a simultaneous movement game, the game is saved automatically when you end your turn."

Let me count the ways I hate this message. One onethousand, Two onethousand, Three onethousand *why you little!* *argh* and so on and so forth!

Why oh why can I not save my pbem game turn before end turn? Say I do half my turn then have to or want to do something else. I have to leave my Space Empires IV up and running because I can't save! And if I do end turn and remember I forgot to this or that and reload the turn I have to the whole thing over from scratch! Preposterous!

Pretty please with sugar on top, fix this!

While on the subject of pbem sim games:

Movement log doesn't work. Get's a message to the effect of: "The movement log replay file is not valid for the current game date".

Retrofit doesn't always work. I hate sifting through that maddeningly unsorted shiplist and giving retrofit orders to 50+ ships of 5+ different designs just to find out next turn I have to do it all over because the orders didn't take.

There! I've said it! Now I'm going to bed leaving the computer on over night because I can't save my turn. Again. For the umptenth time. Fortunately it's very silent since I replaced all the fans in it.

Edit:

Oh almost forgot. The "AI should not make changes to the empire during a Simultaneous Game" toggle under ministers doesn't work. The most dangerous thing you can do in a pbem game is miss a turn since the AI will do it for you. And it always makes more damage then a three pronged attack by overwhelming enemy battlefleets at three different locations.

There! Now I'll shut up and go to bed. Really, I mean it. *drops dead on bed*

[This message has been edited by Jubala (edited 24 March 2001).]

[Mephisto]

As a fellow PBEM player I can feel your pain.

[Griffin]

Agree comepletely with you there Jubala, one of the things I *really* missed from Stars! is the ability to go back and make a small change to your orders after doing your main orders.

[This message has been edited by Griffin (edited 24 March 2001).]

[Triumvir Emphy]

your movement log probably doesn't work because your host hasn't sent you all the files. If he only sends you the *.gam file he is messing up. All the *.txt files that the game generates are needed.

[Jubala]

All the *.txt files are there. The movement log doesn't work for anyone in the game including the host.

[Hydraa]

Have you tried placing the game files in the standard savegame directory. I know several pbem games have set up custom directories. This might solve the problem if that is the problem.