Help needed badly: Trouble with in-game communication

[Shnikshnak]

Greetings fellow players,

I suffer serious problems with my empire communication and did'nt found a clue anywhere. Maybe one of you can help out?

I try to "send message" from the empire screen, getting no "message sent" flag, when I finished a message with "send message".
If I try to send a message again then, the communication dialogue will not pop up again (like it is, when a message was sent.
Messages sent this way (with no message sent flag), were not received by the other players.

So I am not able to trade or to propose or accept treaties, too. I am in war with another race for example and can not change this status, because I am not able to accept a T&R treaty.

What I did:
* I reinstalled SE4. No changes.
* I tried it in another game (with the same SE4 repository): I got the "message sent" flag ... but it seems that these message end in a data nirvana as well.

Any ideas? Anyone got the same problems?
First time I mentioned this was when I came back from holidays and my AI messed up my empire, but this was 2 or 3 turns ago.
HELP!

Greetings
Shnikshnak

[Arkcon]

It comes up occasionally that there is a bug in the diplomacy function. It's hard to know what causes it, and its not known if its fixed. The workaround is to do something other than diplomacy at the start of the turn.

Open a construction window, check a planet, move a ship, then respond to a treaty request or do other diplomacy. Otherwise the message does appear to your opponent. Like I said, its a bizarre bug.

But your specific problem, that you send a message, and you don't get the "Message sent" flag in the races window, is a new one to me. You're not accidentally pressing the [CANCEL] button are you? I've done that a lot myself.

[ April 04, 2004, 11:33: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

[Shnikshnak]

No, I promise, I did not!

I tried sending the Messages at the end of the turn, too. No better results.
Humm-humm ... but thanks for your hint!

Regards
Shnikshnak

[Shnikshnak]

Thanks for the hint again!
I built up my SE4 repository a second time, looks like it works now (I have the "message sent" flag at least).
After the turn processing I will know it for sure.

Regards
Shnikshnak

[primitive]

It happens (very very seldom) that the EMP file becomes corrupted and some unexplained bugs occurs. Try to save your EMP file and start a testgame and see if you can send messsages.

If you still can't, then its EMP file and unfortunately there are no recovery.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

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* just bugging you.