Game out of Sequence Error in 1.8.04

[bongina]

I am Austria and the host. I completed my Jan 1805 land move and combat and sent out the files. Later, I loaded a couple of other land phases. France was going last in land. When it came time to load his file, the game asked for the French 1805 Setup Phase Instead!!!! I have tried going to my last beckup and reloading, and it still does it when it gets to this point. Help. I can't get past it, and thus the game is stuck!

[Dancing Bear]

Hi bongina
you files might just be the key to solving this, because it sounds like when you run from the back up, you can replicate the error. Can you zip the files and post them to Mantis, or email them to Marshall. If he can use your files to replicate what happens, then maybe he can see what is happening.

Can you check with your over players and see what they see. In particular, can you ask the French player if his land phase went as it should, and what phase he is currently in (French dip or French setup). Perhaps would can also post the back up for the French player, so we can work our way up to his land phase.

Also was there any file exchange combat in the French turn?

[Marshall Ellis]

Let me know when you have sent the files and I will download them and check it out!

[Murat]

Well as France there have been some very odd errors in this game so far. We went out of synch in the very 1st simultaneous diplomacy phase. We had a backup. Spain did diplomacy and then all his diplomacy was erased while all the rest of ours went fine so he reloaded and redid the diplomacy phase, leaving 2 diplomacy phases having gone out in the mail. We then did a backup and somehow managed to get to the naval phase. Soon after we seemed to have a mixup when the host tried to skip Prussia in naval. Prussia sent out 2 naval move files of his own giving us 3 prussian naval phases sitting out there. I did my naval (French) and seemed to be having no problems until I received back the British naval where we had a combat and it appeared to me that both of the Portuguese fleets were gone, and I think it appeared that way to Spain too since he also wrote the British about their sacrifice of the Portuguese. Host sent out another set of backups right before the Spanish naval phase and on mine the Portuguese reappeared, I am not sure if they did nor did not for Spain but I imagine they did because he did not say anything about them still being missing once I pointed ot where I could see them. We moved through land phase with no one reporting anything odd and no one exchanging any battle files, although there was land combat of the single corps defender/seige type. At first I could not move my units because it said they already moved but then it seemed to have fixed itself. Everyone managed to load all phases and are waiting on Spain to do the diplomacy phase except the host who is being asked for french setup on the french Land phase. Spain stated he was only missing Russia but I imagine he is missing Russia and Austria (host) since Austria cannot seem to get to the diplomacy phase. Austria (host) stated that he gets the same error with ALL of his backups, not just the most recent, so it may be an early bug, maybe from the 1st simultaneous diplomacy? Or possibly dur to different players loading different Spanish diplomacy or Prussian naval files? I had recommended a clean start since we obviously messed something up somewhere but maybe Marshall can fix it =)

[bongina]

Hello,
where do i email / post the files?

Bart

[Dancing Bear]

ORIGINAL: bongina

Hello,
where do i email / post the files?

Bart

Best to upload it to the Mantis site at: http://eiamantis.babel.com.au/

You'll need to set up a password, but that is straightforward. Otherwise on this forum, click on Marshall's name (on bold blue on the left side of these posts) and send him an email. That will start an email exchange and you can attach a zipped file to one of those emails. Mantis is best however, with an email to let him know the files are there. The sooner the files get there, the sooner we can get this fixed.

He'll need the backup from France, the land turns played by everyone to get to the French turn, plus your own to repeat what you saw. With luck Marshall can look at the changes in the database, and see what is happening and fix it. Otherwise it will be a while, while Marshall strips out the sim phases and undoes the other work he has done since then.

[Dancing Bear]

Hi Bart
I saw that you posted a report to Manitis, but clearly had trouble uploading the files. First, they need to be zipped. Then copy them from your EIA folder to your "my documents", so you can find them again when you are ready to upload.

Also, when did you guys upgrade to 1.08.04. Is everyone using the same version? There appears to be some problems with the game database. Does the log indicate if any one loaded their files twice? I suspect that because you had to restart, not all the game files players are using are the same, i.e. some are using the backup you sent out, and some are using files generated before the backup.

Finally for the French combat, was this a file exchange combat between two players?

[Marshall Ellis]

Bart:

Can you tell me how the guys in your game upgraded?

1.00 to 1.06.03 to 1.07.02 to 1.08.04?

[bongina]

I will find out. I know that I had to reload the game at one point (due to missing icons) and then just installed straight 1.8.04. Some of the others probably went from 1.7.02 to 1.8.02 to 1.8.04, but not sure. But, why does that matter?

[Dancing Bear]

Try re-installing with 1.06 to 1.07 to 1.08 (have anyone who may have missed the 1.07 step do this), then run from your last back up. Make sure everyone only uses files from fully upgraded players, and from after the re-start. Let us know how it goes.

Don't know yet why this appears to work. There might be a small database upgrade in 1.07 that is critical to 1.08 working, and skipping 1.07 means that 1.08 can not work.

[bongina]

We'll try it, even though it makes no sense what-so-ever.

[Dancing Bear]

Let us know how it goes.

ORIGINAL: bongina

We'll try it, even though it makes no sense what-so-ever.

[Marshall Ellis]

Yes please keep us posted since I too am at a loss of how it could help BUT it does!
I am in the code right now and looking at how this could be a cause...

[bongina]

We are updating. Have not tested yet. However, I'm skeptical whether it is going to fix an issue once it has already creeped in. Marshall, have you looked at the files I sent via mantis. Could you see see the issue?

[Dancing Bear]

Bongina
you will have to go to a back up. I think any back up before the French (last) land phase will likely work. I think you need to re-start before there are any file exchange combats. My best guess is there is something in the security code introduced in 1.07 that is needed for 1.08 to work properly.

[bongina]

I installed them, went back to a backup before land movement, re-did all the land and combat, except france. It still is saying that it is French setup phase. Can that not be fixed in the file i sent?

[Dancing Bear]

Hi Bart
I think the error is triggered by the Fremch land combat phase, so you would need to replay the French combat with the new version you just installed.