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GMeyer -> FOW Disappearing in PBEM (2/12/2009 1:21:10 PM)
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Congradulations on publishing GGWBS, it is the best wargame I've played in a long time and I have been playing them for a long time: started with the original AH Gettysburg in 1959. I have been playing board and computer wargames continously since. Well, maybe not continously I have worked and raised kids, but pretty regularly.
For six weeks, I've been playing with another member of this forum by PBEM. We exchange files at least once a day so there has been a good deal of exchanging. We are on our third game now; neither of the first two went beyond April 62. The first was terminated because he was killing me brutally and took pity. All file exchanges were flawless. But in the second game, he noticed that FOW had stopped working when he opened the CAS end file I sent him. I think its was still 61 but I didn't think to preserve the file for examination.
We always use FOW and, up to that point, hadn't experienced any problems with it. On checking the file I'd sent, FOW was definitely gone; in all earlier turns, it was present. Upon hitting the "o" button in that file, the Options Screen displayed red checks in the FOW boxes. I tried everything I could think of to restore the options setting, like making sure that FOW had black checks on the options screen before I loaded guilty PBEM file. Nothing worked. We decided to start a third game because of the disadvantage suffered by the South--here me--when the Union enjoys total intelligence of Southern deployment.
Until yesterday everything went fine but upon receipt of his March 62 move, FOW disappeared when I employed the replay function. I hit the "r" key and the replay control window popped up as did everything on the northern map. When I stopped replay, FOW came back on and has remained on since. I haven't tried replay again as the game is still proceeding. Hitting the "e" key to recall text files does not elicit the same response.
Has anybody else reported this to guys? I am not computer literate--in fact I'm hardly literate at all-- and have no idea why this FOW weirdness is happening. Thanks for your time and a GREAT game
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