Alien Waterworld turn reporting thread - Page 14

Mongoose · November 22, 2002, 23:05

2156 sent to General Mutliload

GeneralTacticus · November 22, 2002, 23:38

No screwups this time, though.

2156 to knowhow2.

GeneralTacticus · November 23, 2002, 19:35

Guys, I will be absent for the next 5 days (starting tommorow), as I have to go on school camp and won't have internet access.

Mongoose · November 24, 2002, 12:07

I will be out of town from midday (GMT) Monday the 25th thru late on the 30th or early on 1 Dec. and unable to play this turn until thn anyway.

knowhow2 · November 25, 2002, 06:32

turn to Omniblade

Plan9 · November 25, 2002, 19:31

2157 -> FlameFlash

FlameFlash · November 26, 2002, 10:24

turn played and sent last night.

Mongoose · November 30, 2002, 19:15

2157 sent to GT

GeneralTacticus · November 30, 2002, 19:27

2157 to knowhow2.

knowhow2 · December 3, 2002, 08:33

turn to Omniblade

Plan9 · December 3, 2002, 09:41

And back across the atlantic it goes

FlameFlash · December 3, 2002, 10:31

Turn received... will play after work.

GeneralTacticus · December 6, 2002, 21:22

2158 to knowhow2 (why no posts?)

Mongoose · December 7, 2002, 03:25

Sorry.

I played 9 turns in 3 hours this afternoon and early evening and forgot to post passage for this one.

knowhow2 · December 9, 2002, 06:18

turn to Omniblade

Plan9 · December 9, 2002, 12:49

2159 -> FlameFlash

And... could somebody tell me why the factions keep changing colors/base designs every turn. Gets confusing after a while. Fix?

GeneralTacticus · December 10, 2002, 01:50

Have you been playing any other games of SMAC? IIRC, factions in MP games change colour depnding on the order of factions in the last SP game you played.

Plan9 · December 10, 2002, 08:49

Sure.. I play IP games on a regular basis.
Are you saying that if I was hosting a game as say the Usurpers, next PBEM game I open up the player first in order will show as the Usurpers in all respects except for faction bonuses/drawbacks?

I guess a crude fix for it would be to do a 2nd installation for PBEM only.. or would that mess everything up as well since in playing several PBEMs?

knowhow2 · December 10, 2002, 09:27

or you could just load a game with the faction you'll play later.

Mongoose · December 10, 2002, 11:17

This problem only occurs in SMAX and only for scenario started games. (This includes all of Googlie' Specials.)

When loading a turn from such a game, the game sets the faction graphics according to the sequence of factions in your alphacentauri.ini file. That sequence gets set each time you start a new game of SMAX.

To play pbem turns in these kinds of games with the faction graphics properly associated with their respectrive factions, you must first edit the ini file. You can do this in two ways that I know.

One, before playing each of your turns, you start a new game of SMAX and select the participating factions in the sequence they play in your pbem. Play one turn, them quit. Now, when you load the pbem turn, the graphics will be right.

Two, use a text editor (notepad will suffice) to put the factions in the proper places.

What I do is an extension of the first, really. For each of my SMAX pbems, I have created and saved under a different name, an ini file with the factions in proper order. Before playing any pbem turns from those games, I rename that game's saved ini file to alphacentauri.ini. This allows me to play all those pbems with the right graphic sets.

A dual install of SMAC won't help, the problem would occur in each.

Mongoose · December 11, 2002, 00:13

2159 sent to GT.

GeneralTacticus · December 11, 2002, 01:46

2159 to knowhow2.

knowhow2 · December 12, 2002, 05:52

turn to Omni

Plan9 · December 12, 2002, 09:42

2160 -> FlameFlash

FlameFlash · December 12, 2002, 10:48

received... will play after work.

Mongoose · December 13, 2002, 01:09

2160 sent to GT

GeneralTacticus · December 13, 2002, 01:59

'Cannot open this file; it does not seem to be a valid archive.' Resend please.

Mongoose · December 13, 2002, 07:43

re-sent

Very odd. I can extract the file I sent. I can then load the extracted save, though I cannot open it for lack of a password. Hope this one is OK.

GeneralTacticus · December 13, 2002, 18:59

Nope, it STILL doesn't work. I don't have any idea what's going on; I can open most of my other zip files, but not all. Can you try attaching it here?

Mongoose · December 13, 2002, 21:23

If this doesn't work, I'll send it unzipped.

edit: File removed.