Strange occurence at beginning of mp game

[ahuyton]

I joined a multiplayer game. On my deployment turn, I had an endless loop as follows:
- message that I was in deployment mode
- before I could do anything, message that I was victorious
- message screen, which I duly completed assuming an error somewhere
- I send to server
- message that it is impossible to send to server and to retry turn

I tried three times,with the same results before cancelling the turn.

I will try again later but do not want to have it recorded that I am forever cancelling my turn. Any thoughts?

Alan

[zakblood]

only thought i have is it's a custom battle or both on different versions regarding patches etc maybe?

[Manstein63]

This is the same issue that I reported although ahuyton put it much better than I did

[rbodleyscott]

The usual reason for this sequence of in-game messages to occur is if one side's army has not been initialised correctly, so it has no units on the map. This is usually due to the challenge data having a name string for the army list which does not match the "chunk name" in the army list file.

Obviously this should not happen, unless either player is using a modded army list file. (And both are not using the same modded version, from start to finish).

However, PBEM has recently migrated to a new server, requiring the server code to be rewritten, so it is possible that something in the army list name is causing some army list strings not to be transferred correctly to and from the server.

Can you tell me which were the army lists specified as having "lost" in each of these battles, and which skirmish module they are from?

Also, what proportion of your skirmish games is this issue occurring in?

Has it occurred in any preset scenario games?

[ahuyton]

Richard, thanks for this.

It is only happening in one game, and this is the first time for me. I have played other skirmish games and scenarios in the last couple of months without similar incidents. My opponent selected the army lists, with default selection, which are:
- Ottoman Turkish 1494-1559 (mine)
- Russian 1550-1559 (lost)

[ahuyton]

Would it be possible to delete this game from the server please, ahuyton v waterhead1985? Thanks

[rbodleyscott]

Would it be possible to delete this game from the server please, ahuyton v waterhead1985? Thanks

Whoever's turn it isn't can delete it after there is no activity for 7 days.