Hot Seat Major Bug

[lordhoff]

Neither map displays when using "hot seat". My apologies if this is already known as I did not do a search. It is about 6 AM here and I have not yet been to bed - I'm tired and feeling rather lazy right now.

I'll continue to monitor but alas, I think it is time to move on (at least until I can play "hot seat"). I have dozens of unplayed games including four or so Matrix games that need attending to.

I am an old time board gamer having played my first war games in the early 70s as an early teen (can you believe "Battle Cry", "War of 1812", and "Dogfight" by Milton-Bradley I believe!) and like many, had to resort to playing both sides due to difficulties in finding opponents. I've had great times doing that so once I mastered the GoA AI, I thought I'd try "hot seat" (guess not too many do this if this just now came up [:'(] ). That worked great with the Tiller battleground series (beat the AI by 10x needed points for decisive in my very first campaign so it didn't take long to play both sides [;)]) and I spent many months on that series of games (I do so appreciate Matrix re-releasing them as a pack!) and I'm betting that I could spend quite a bit more time in GoA if I could. As I said, I'll check back in the GoA section and I suspect I'll be playing it again in the future (probably after the new WW I game Matrix is planning on releasing - I'll have to check that out too!).

Great game!

[hjaco]

I on occasion use hotseat as a strategy and battle simulator i.e. up to 3+ turns in succession.

I have never experienced the error you mention in hotseat.

But if you have changed save file names try to add .sgw to file name (just rename adding .sgw) - I have tried getting a white map in such a case although it was PBEM.

[FrankHunter]

That is strange, I do a lot of my testing with "hotseat" and I haven't come across this. Is this with 1.24 or the 1.25 "test"?

[lordhoff]

That is strange, I do a lot of my testing with "hotseat" and I haven't come across this. Is this with 1.24 or the 1.25 "test"?

1.24 and it is a white screen as hjaco mentioned. Now I'll have to think back and remember what I did. I do remember naming the file as "CPHS1". Now I'm betting user error. I'm STILL wide awake for no apparent reason and its been forever since I slept. I'll try to recreate. Let you know in a bit. Right now, I just can't see why I would have typed in a name before the mobility phase.

[lordhoff]

Now I'll have to think back and remember what I did. I do remember naming the file as "CPHS1". Now I'm betting user error. I'm STILL wide awake for no apparent reason and its been forever since I slept. I'll try to recreate. Let you know in a bit. Right now, I just can't see why I would have typed in a name before the mobility phase.

OK - it IS user error. I left the tag on "load saved game" instead of "new game". Sorry for the false alarm. At least that explains why it asked me for a title I think it is timer to [>:] now.

The silver liner: I get to play GoA a lot more (sorry Msr. Buenaparte - you'll just have to wait [:D]! ).