PBEM Problems

[kennonlightfoot]

It looks like there are some serious problems in the PBEM system. There doesn't appear to be a way to make a copy of the files onto my PC so I can attach them but maybe someone can get them off the server so I have attached a screen display of the games I have on the PBEM server.

The first one I highlighted I just started with my brother a day ago. Note what turn it is on, 16. Neither of us has been able to open this game and see anything that makes a bit of sense. When he did his turn he found no units. When it came back to me in the state shown, I opened it and saw some CSA units and it indicating it was now at about 11 AM. I'm the Union.

The next highlighted on, Wilson's Creek, was a challenge I answered few days ago. It did the same thing. I don't think either one of us actually ever played a turn yet it is on turn 9. I, being USA, never saw any of my units so never made a move. I think we sent it back and forth about two or three times without anything but the "End Turn" working.

The last one highlighted in Yellow is a game I started about a week after game release. This game has been working and still continues to work.

The two un-highlighted games date from Beta and I can't get rid of them.

What I am going to try next just to eliminate any possible contamination of the game is uninstall it, delete all copies, files etc. manually, then reinstall it from CD and update it to 1.01. Then if the challenge is still out their I saw earlier I will accept it and see what happens.

[kennonlightfoot]

Two things to report so far:

First the CD install doesn't work, it couldn't decompress one of the PCX files. So I went back to my download file and installed it.

Second, I notice when I tried to accept the one challenge that is on the PBEM board it asked for a password. This implies you made an update to the server app to put in some of the new 1.03Beta features. Since our problems started about a week ago you might want to consider rolling those change back and see if things start working again.

I went ahead and created a new challenge for my brother. I will let you know if it works.

[ericbabe]

The password code is in the client only, so shouldn't affect anything. I fixed some client PBEM problems in V1.0.2, so please try testing with that version (or with V1.0.3). I will run a test this afternoon and see whether I can duplicate this issue.

[ericbabe]

On that game with turn 16, the game on the server is indicated as "Player kwhitehead is actually playing" which means the server thinks you have a game checked out and is (I think...) therefore failing to send you new versions. I've got to check with the Slitherine technical guys on this to see what's going on -- it could be something my client isn't handling properly (I don't recall this happening during beta testing.)

[kennonlightfoot]

ORIGINAL: ericbabe

On that game with turn 16, the game on the server is indicated as "Player kwhitehead is actually playing" which means the server thinks you have a game checked out and is (I think...) therefore failing to send you new versions. I've got to check with the Slitherine technical guys on this to see what's going on -- it could be something my client isn't handling properly (I don't recall this happening during beta testing.)

Problem is that we never were able to do turn 1. It just jumped to 16 on its own.

So far the reinstalled v101 seems to be working but it will take a few more plays to be sure. If you recently made changes to the PBEM site this may have fixed it or it could be the reinstall fixing it. Need to get more PBEM games going to be sure.