Security - Player 2 has already played this turn?

[czerpak]

DRG said:

Send me a copy of the game with your passwords if you can. When you start another one next time try what Pyros suggests and give the game a few seconds extra before zipping up the turn. You might also try not running PBEM Helper for a game

Don

Will do, sir. Just let me kow where to.
Also, I dont archive turns, so I will send last turn I have.
BTW I NEVER use PBEM helpers, so it is not the cause. And besides funny number of loads/quits game behaves as it should.

[Pyros]

Maciej,

You may attach it to your post,
First edit your post and then upload the zip file.

cheers,

[czerpak]

I know, but then again I need to send my pass somewhere.
Or maybe I send it to you, Pyros.

[DRG]

Zip up the turns and include a TXT file with the passwords then attach all three to your post

Don

[czerpak]

There is some misunderstanding here - I do know how it can be done techncally but I dont want my pass to be widely known.

[Pyros]

Ok Maciej,

send your password to me.

cheers mate,
Pyros

p.s send it in the email we use to contact.
ps. don't worry... I will try to make your password globally known! LOL

[Suurajatollah]

Hi guys,

I also have this same "Player 2 has already played this turn" problem with one of my PBEM-game. I have the right files and the turn is finished properly. Though it was started again few times before ending. It didn't quite occure to me when reading this thread: is there a cure for this problem and is it possible to finish the game?

Thanks!

Olli

[hogrider18]

MD and I have had the same problem with not being able to get back into a PBEM game in progress.Our forst game went 20 of 40 turns, before we got locked out. THe map soze was 120x100 and 8000pts, then same map size and 6,000pts. We both tried setting up small PBEM games to try again and had no luck playing after inital set up. I finally got fed up and deleted the PBEMregistry.dat file and set up a small 1000pt game, which has gone well so far into turn 3.
What is the file used for anyone? The game seems to play OK without it, so far. Biker

[DRG]

hogrider18 said:
I finally got fed up and deleted the PBEMregistry.dat file and set up a small 1000pt game, which has gone well so far into turn 3.
What is the file used for anyone? The game seems to play OK without it, so far. Biker

It's not used for anything at all. It's left over from an old idea that we didn't pursue but may in the future. However, if you suddenly find you can play OK please do let us know and we'll see if it helps anyone else having this problem. There is one (1) line in the code for that file but it's quite literally calling nothing since none of the code that uses PBEMRegistry.dat is "hooked up" to anything connected to a regular PBEM game.

What I *seem* to be seeing here is a few people having repeated problems. I would assume if everyone couldn't finish a PBEM we would have been flooded with these reports by now.

At this time all I can suggest is if you have more than a couple of instances of failed secure PBEM to.....

1] re-install the game

2] DO NOT be too quick to zip up the turn after ending it. If anyone is zipping it up before exiting the game completely....stop doing that. I don't *think* that's casuing a problem but I don't know that for sure either

3] Always......... ALWAYS remember that any attempt to play the game in anything but the game you started it on will eventually end in failure. I'm not saying that is the problem now but we have had cases in the past where people try to play a turn at home then finish it on their laptop on the way to work so I'm just reminding everyone ( gently ) you CANNOT DO THAT!

When Andy gets back I will review these issues and we'll see if we can figure out what may be happening. Keep in mind both he and I DID test this and what is being reported DID NOT happen to us. Rest assured I DO understand that having a game crap out just as it's getting interesting is not fun and does not generally give people a warm and fuzzy feeling. IF it is the game getting confused we'll obviously need to fix this but right now I'm leaning towards a file handling issue

Let us review for a minute.

a]Player one is sending a turn to player 2 and when player 2 tried to open it the message " Player two has already played this turn" pops up???

b] This is accompanied by unusually high reports about loads and saves??

[Suurajatollah]

Let us review for a minute.

a]Player one is sending a turn to player 2 and when player 2 tried to open it the message " Player two has already played this turn" pops up???

b] This is accompanied by unusually high reports about loads and saves??

In my case:

a)Player 2 sends his turn and Player 1 gets message: "Player 2 has already played this turn"

b) This was accompanied by 10-20 player 1- and 15-30 player 2- loads and saves. Plus 2 or 3 player 1 fails and 5-8 player 2 fails. For what I remember...