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[bOrIuM]

I am the admin of a game, but I dont see the admin menu on a game I have to do a backup !

[DCWhitworth]

ORIGINAL: bOrIuM

I am the admin of a game, but I dont see the admin menu on a game I have to do a backup !

You have the "Allow PBEM host GA Functions" option disabled.

Why on earth this option is even available in the game I don't know !

[bOrIuM]

hey thx, I didnt see, cause I never disabled this function... Marshall, can you correct it please ?

[DCWhitworth]

ORIGINAL: bOrIuM

hey thx, I didnt see, cause I never disabled this function... Marshall, can you correct it please ?

Marshall isn't about until the 4th. You may be able to fix it yourself, although the issue is you can only change this during your own turn.

To be honest you are such a short distance into the game that you could just restart. Alternatively you can load from a backup, advance to your reinforcement phase and produce a backup from there. Not that many phases to replay, in fact you can probably skip pretty much all the reinforcement and naval phases between there and where you are now since hardly anyone will have anything to do.

[bOrIuM]

the problem is that when I try to do it, it says only the host (I am!) can change options during his turn... maybe not in naval phase ??

[DCWhitworth]

ORIGINAL: bOrIuM

the problem is that when I try to do it, it says only the host (I am!) can change options during his turn... maybe not in naval phase ??

Oh dear. Another possibility is that when you started your game you loaded from the pbmstart file. The host should *not* do this as if he does he'll no longer be the host.

Unfortunately if you have done this you will have no option but to restart the game. If you recreate the game from scratch you *might* be lucky and find the previously created pbm files will reload.

[bOrIuM]

Hi, I might have do as you said for that game, had problems to start... Well, Again I hope one day we can load our own turn files, so no need to rcreate a whole game.

[DCWhitworth]

Best of luck.

[Marshall Ellis]

Borium:

Are you OK now?
BTW: You will probably never be able to load your own game since this exposes a lot of security issues!

[DCWhitworth]

ORIGINAL: Marshall Ellis
Borium:
Are you OK now?
BTW: You will probably never be able to load your own game since this exposes a lot of security issues!

The host can load their own turn files using a workaround I stumbled upon a while back.

[Marshall Ellis]

Actually as the host I believe you could do this?
Can you elaborate in an email?

[DCWhitworth]

I posted it here http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1971101 some time ago.

[Marshall Ellis]

Thanks!

[Dancing Bear]

Borium
did this work, I think we have the same problem in one of our games?

Marshall, can you restore the amdin functions if we send you the hosts games?
DB

[Marshall Ellis]

I'm not sure how this is happening ??? so I don't know...

[Dancing Bear]

We are not entirely sure either, only that our host (soapy frog) can not access his admin functions. He has forwarded his save file to you last Monday (the 4th) in the morning (at about 8:25).

[bOrIuM]

Yes im ok now, I just created a new game and reproduced my turn as we were only in feb '05 so I didnt do a lot of things, now everything is good.

ORIGINAL: Marshall Ellis

Borium:

Are you OK now?
BTW: You will probably never be able to load your own game since this exposes a lot of security issues!

[DCWhitworth]

ORIGINAL: Dancing Bear

We are not entirely sure either, only that our host (soapy frog) can not access his admin functions. He has forwarded his save file to you last Monday (the 4th) in the morning (at about 8:25).

Likely you've had the same issue as Borium - host started their game from the gamestart.pbm file. I don't think there is a way to fix this directly, probably you'll have to restart and reload files.