Turns of Teamgame #1

Googlie · June 14, 2002, 10:36

This is a smac game

Players, in turn order, are:

Gaians - Darsnan ( dnandal@twcny.rr.com )
Hive - Qantaga ( qantaga@aol.com )
UoP - Chaunk ( mj_blakemore@uk2.net )
Morgan - Shadowlord3 ( dmshadowlord3@yahoo.com )
Sparta - JohnDMuller ( JohnDMuller@msn.com )
Peacekeepers - KrysiasKrusader ( krysiaskrusader@sympatico.ca )

Believers - Miriam Godwinson, playing as herself

Large map, Transcend level, average everything, all five winning conditions activated, plus look first, spoils of war, no Unity survey and no random events.

Seed pods do not produce technologies nor AA's

Standard Apolyton tourney rules apply.

2102 has been sent to Darsnan, and passwords to all.

Good luck and enjoy!!

Googlie

Darsnan · June 14, 2002, 11:13

turn to Q!

Qantaga · June 14, 2002, 11:45

Googlie,

Thank you very much for setting up this game for us. We all appreciate your time, skills and hard work to get the game set up for us.

Good luck to everyone!

2102 to Chaunk.

Chaunk · June 14, 2002, 12:14

2102 to SL3

Thanks Googlie!

shadowlord3 · June 14, 2002, 12:50

2102 to JDM.

Thanks again Googlie for all your work, good luck to all and lets have some fun.

SL3

johndmuller · June 14, 2002, 18:02

2102 to KK.

Allow me to echo the thanks to Googlie.

KrysiasKrusader · June 14, 2002, 19:13

Problem, problem...

I can see at least 9 squares that I shouldn't be able to...

I can see at least 5 ( yes that is five ) different Manifold Nexus's...

I can see mines, mag. tubes, sensor arrays, thermal boreholes, and a unity pod in the same square !?!

Please advise...

KrysiasKrusader · June 14, 2002, 19:35

I advised Googlie and sent him the file.

Googlie · June 14, 2002, 20:45

I've come accross this before with version incompatibility.

I can see these when I open KK's turn, but can't replicate it when I play the turns sequentially from Darsnan's onwards.

Can everyone confirm that they are playing on a PC platform and running smac v. 4.0 (open smac, and then hit ctl and F4. You should then see the version number identified). The Manifold Nexus was introduced when SMAX was released, and incorporated in a in a later version of SMAC, and can corrupt the map if someone's alpha.txt doesn't have it as a feature.

However, some labels that I put on the map temporarily also appear, although I deleted them long before I saved the scenario I started for your game.

If everyone is playing v4.0, may I suggest that you let the turn ride one more round, and if KK gets the same problem next turn, we'll panic then.

(And frankly, I don't know what to do then if it recurs, as, as I say, I cannot replicate it when I run the turns sequentially from Darsnan's original (and it certainly doesn't appear on the scenario that spwans the game)

G.

KrysiasKrusader · June 14, 2002, 20:51

I confirm that I'm running SMAC ver. 4.0

Darsnan · June 14, 2002, 20:55

I also confirm that I am running version 4.0, and since I am, can you forward me the turn KK?

D

shadowlord3 · June 14, 2002, 21:06

Version 4 with release date may 17 1999. I agree, lets play another turn and see if it continues.

SL3

KrysiasKrusader · June 14, 2002, 21:23

Turn 2103 to Darsnan

johndmuller · June 14, 2002, 23:19

V4.0 here

.

Darsnan · June 14, 2002, 23:20

turn to Q

Qantaga · June 14, 2002, 23:51

Version 4.0 for me, too.

2103 to Chaunk.

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{fingers crossed} because I know the game is well designed and will be a lot of fun.

I personally don't mind a restart if that's what it takes to work things out.

Googlie · June 15, 2002, 00:43

Bad news, I'm afraid (I realized that I could play out the next round or two of turns as I had all the passwords)

Not only does the problem persist, but after three turns every player sees these six manifold nexi (?) and ocean monoliths etc

I'll go back to the base scenario and make sure that everything is in order and reissue the starting turn.

I had a thought that might be the cause. I added to alpha.txt and alphax.txt under SIZEWORLD the line Humungous Planet, 128 x 256 (anf changed the # from 5 to 6. That lets me see the Humungous Planet as a choice in the menu when I am starting a game.

But PBEMs carry with them them, embedded in the sav file, the alpha.txt rules of the game so maybe your systems are looking for that diff planet size and not finding it, so mucking up the map graphics as a result.

I'll edit out my humungous map and redo the gamestart and let'sa see if it works this time (That's why I prolly couldn't recreate the problem from Darsnan's start rturn, only from the already corrupted one that KK sent me - I think)

G.

Googlie · June 15, 2002, 01:10

I've amended my alpha.txt (restored to its original) and a restarted 2102 has been sent to Darsnan

Fingers crossed

G.

Darsnan · June 15, 2002, 11:45

Argh! This restart just cost me a MW I had captured my first turn previously!

Somehow I know this is all Krysia's Krusaders fault!

Turn to Q!

Qantaga · June 15, 2002, 12:50

New 2102 to Chaunk.

Chaunk · June 15, 2002, 13:41

2102 to SL3.

shadowlord3 · June 15, 2002, 15:23

2102 to JDM.

johndmuller · June 15, 2002, 21:39

2102(2) to KK.

KrysiasKrusader · June 15, 2002, 22:32

Turn 2103-(2) to Darsnan

Darsnan · June 15, 2002, 22:40

2103 to Q!

Qantaga · June 15, 2002, 23:02

2103 to Chaunk.

KrysiasKrusader · June 16, 2002, 00:51

Uhhh... Chaunk.

Since we're a team, I don't want the other guys to know what we're sayin' when we're communicatin' at the thread.

Alright ?

So I'm going to look in the " U.N. Secret Bureaucratic Code Book "

and try to find a code for us here. Okay ?

AND DON'T SAY NOTHIN' TILL WE GOT THIS FIGURED OUT !

Googlie · June 16, 2002, 08:17

Are we to assume that since we're now in the 2103 round that the map's OK now?

G.

Qantaga · June 16, 2002, 08:24

Googlie, everything looked good in my two turns. I guess KK would have told us if the same problems had popped up again. Thanks for detecting the problem and fixing it for us.

Oh, and KK,

I hope you and Chaunk work out your communications issues. shadowlord3 and I have no such concerns.

SL3: "The wolf howls at midnight."

Chaunk · June 16, 2002, 08:29

This message has been censored by the U.N. Beaurocrats who think that turn notifications are almost allways the direct cause of baldness in men over the age of 2. As a result of this, the turn may or may not have been sent to SL3, and we apologise for any inconvinience caused.

Normal service will be resumed when I find that £%*"&£ code book!