Sorry it took long to get back to you, we've had a talk with slitherine about it and it seems that there was a problem with the serial numbers - if that was the reason you couldn't access the lobby, then it should work now.

<t> Doesn't really say a lot unfortunately, it's just the generic error message it gives when it doesn't have a more specific reason.<br/>
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I do have some thoughts on what might be causing it, but it won't be possible to do anything about it until Monday (the lobby system is operated by ...

Can you tell us exactly what error message you get?

We did try having a proper tutorial early in development of the game, but it proved to be too complex for what is basically a very simple game - there are very few rules and the tutorial always felt like overkill, so we decided to go with a simple page explaining the rules instead.

<t> For those who have been asking on this forum about it - the new update adds hotseat play to Conquest.<br/>
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To start a hotseat game, simply select multiplayer -> hotseat from the menu. Setting up a hotseat game is very similar to any other type of game, and can have both human and AI ...

<t> I would love to be able to give you an ETA, but at the moment we don't really know ourselves - we will try to get to this as soon as we can though.<br/>
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As for starting as a different player, click the little colour/player number icon in the top left of the player info box, clicking a ...

<r> stop code 0x50 means "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA" - loosely translated it means something that should have been in memory wasn't there.<br/>
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most likely cause of it is faulty RAM, then possibly device drivers (if you installed or updated anything recently, hardware or drivers, that's ...

<t> The game itself wouldn't be able to finish writing it's log file if there was a BSOD unfortunately. that being said, windows should have written a copy of the error to the event log (search for more information about it, it's a bit much to go into detail about it here).<br/>
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If you can ...

I agree with you - however we have to deal with the issues regarding the demo before we can do the update. also, doing an update too quickly could mean that bugs get missed.

It's certainly possible to do - i think we'll probably be looking to add some way to control the speed of the AI turns in an update, rather than forcing it to be fast or slow - much better if we let people choose their speed.

<t> Unfortunately, the internet used to be a simpler (and smaller) place - but these days routers are needed because so many people have home networks, and firewalls because of the constant threat of viruses/worms/trojans/whatever else they call the threats these days.<br/>
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Even using a ...

Ack.. sorry we vanished, but we thought you had given it up for the night.

I know how much of a pain router setup can be, i've had my share of pain in that department.

If you want to try again, just let us know, and we'll try to do what we can.

Only other thing i can think of is the windows firewall.. i always turn it off so i can't be sure, but i think it needs an exception adding for the game (or turning off entirely).

Pretty sure - we tried sending you chat messages but it seemed like you couldn't see them, and i'm guessing you couldn't see the game i hosted either..

Long story short, you need port 2301 UDP to be open on your router and/or firewall for the lobby to work properly.

Yes, we do know.. we're both there - seems that you have some port issues though - check out my thread in the tech support forum for more info about this.

<r> It seems that the scenario editor is missing from the currently available version of Conquest - this means that whenever you click on the button to start it, the game will crash instead saying that a file could not be found.<br/>
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Since this is simply a case of a missing file, i have ...

<t> I just looked into this for you - having received the error report a few minutes ago.<br/>
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After i couldn't reproduce the bug, i tried installing the version which Matrix are selling, and it turns out that the scenario editor is missing.<br/>
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No idea how it got lost.. but i'll ...

<t> One of the things we were determined about from the start was that the AI in this game would not cheat - all too often i've seen a cheating AI used to cover up for the fact that it simple cannot play the game (and worse than that, in many cases it simply doesn't tell you that the AI cheats).<br ...

I can't promise you anything - both myself and cerby are in the UK, so it'll be 1am here. If we can though, we'll be there.

<t> Firstly, thanks for the post - we always like to hear what people think. I'll respond to each of your points below:<br/>
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Quitting to the desktop directly from the middle of a game used to be possible (pressing ALT+F4) but it had to be blocked due to some issues it was causing with the ...