Adam Parker
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Joined: 4/2/2002 From: Melbourne Australia Status: offline
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Hi Gus, so in PBEM what you're saying is that if you receive a crash during the making of your turn, you then can't restart your efforts with your opponent's last email and your total game is void (other than if your opponent re-emails you so you can re-try your turn again)? Yes, that's a pain and I suppose a feature of good PBEM is the inability to "save restart" in this way. So with crashes around, it's Catch 22 in PBEM - good security vs incovenience. Vs the AI though which is what consumers should know, it is that Autosave (which operates in the background) gives a gamer the last completed turn. For example in the zip I sent the company regarding my last crash on turn 4 of a game, Autosave provided the action up to the end of turn 3. A pain yes but at least liveable as the crashes to date - though seemingly varied by cause, are to desk top only and not Windows critical requiring a re-boot. The player is simply taken to the KP menu window and it's a matter of firing up the Autosave, running the AI's turn again and re-doing yours. So far I'm 3 crashes out of 6 games. Yes, it's surprising that intermittent crashes exist. But this is a new engine and I expected them. Regardless of what I think, we'll see what the reasons are and await their resolution with the 1st patch. For now, I approach KP as I would any regular MS Office product like Word. I simply save - and often (that prevents my reliance on Austosave in total). Folks, I recommend this practice, especially if you're playing a campaign (or reliant on the North American power grid) ;) Adam.
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