PBW question

Phoenix-D · #1 April 30th, 2002, 08:18 PM

I recently took over an empire in the Gold newbie game. Problem was, the password I was given was invalid. So I notified the host and gave him some steps to walk through doing the password change. They're below. What I THOUGHT this was going to do was proceed to the next turn, only with a new password for my empire. It actually RESET the current turn with a new password for my race. I'm a little mad there, because the two other players had already submitted their turns!

1. Download everyone's order files
2. open up the turn file, but instead of logging into your empire, log into the host.
3. go to the game menu, options, reset passwords. select my empire ONLY, press OK. Write down the password it gives you and email that to me.
4. Run the game turn manually (just extract into your savegame directory, then run the turn. It'll pop up some error Messages about my empire. Ignore that!)
5. upload the new turn to PBW as a replacement turn.

capnq · #2 April 30th, 2002, 08:38 PM

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What I THOUGHT this was going to do was proceed to the next turn, only with a new password for my empire. It actually RESET the current turn with a new password for my race.

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here. What happened when the turn was "reset"?

Your instructions match the procedure listed in the PBW FAQ. Since you couldn't log in as the empire, there wouldn't be a .plr file for it, so the AI would have run the empire in step 4.

capnq
PBW admin

geoschmo · #3 April 30th, 2002, 08:40 PM

Phoenix, I am a little confused. There is no way he could have reset the password for the current turn. The steps to reset the password you state are correct. The result will be that turn processes, with the AI playing your turn this time, but you being able to play the rest of the turns once the host emails you the new password.. No way around that unless you can get the password, which if you had that you wouldn't be going through this anyway.

What's the issue here? I don't understand.

Geoschmo

Bman · #4 April 30th, 2002, 08:52 PM

It is possible the Host loaded the .gam file from the previous turn (that he happened to have archived on his computer) and used that to perform the reset.

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Originally posted by geoschmo:
Phoenix, I am a little confused. There is no way he could have reset the password for the current turn. The steps to reset the password you state are correct. The result will be that turn processes, with the AI playing your turn this time, but you being able to play the rest of the turns once the host emails you the new password.. No way around that unless you can get the password, which if you had that you wouldn't be going through this anyway.

What's the issue here? I don't understand.

Geoschmo

geoschmo · #5 April 30th, 2002, 08:56 PM

Yes, Bman, that is possible. However unless he also had their .plr files the result would have been the AI playing everybodies turns. Is that what you meant Phoenix?

Geo

Phoenix-D · #6 April 30th, 2002, 09:08 PM

Maybe; I can only see my empire. I'll PMed details of what exactly happened.

Phoenix-D