posted 04-25-99 03:29 AM ET        

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Can't autosave.

If you want to save it exits.

I cannot believe there is no option here. I say under rules 'iron man' - OFF. Nothing.

-- Hugh

posted 04-25-99 11:11 AM ET            

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Are you the HughtheHand from Warlords?
If you are, nice to have you around..

SMAC a lot
Rasputine

P.S. just like couslee posted, Hotseat doesn't allow Save/reload feature with sending an alarm to all further players saying you had reload...

posted 04-25-99 04:30 PM ET            

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Yeah- though i'm quitting as its top player this week.

But i'd like to play some hotseat games with SMAC. But it crashes more often than i'd like.

So i'm a bit new to this.. is there no way to save a bloody game without exiting (or autosave). I mean why have iron man option if you can't get away from it.

Please help.

Thanks

-- Hugh

posted 04-25-99 07:07 PM ET            

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you want to play with several factions at the same time, i imagine...no easy way, with Hot seat you have to play it all in row and 'save and exit' when you want to quit playing.
If you want to have several saves of the game, it always behaves like an Iron Man...because hotseat is designed for e-mail playing so doesn't allow cheating on that...you play your turn then 'save and exit' and send it to next player...
Though Iron Man feature works on Single and Other Multiplayer games

Probably that didn't help you too much...

Rasputine

posted 04-30-99 03:06 PM ET            

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You can always get around the iron-man setting, I think. Just copy the save game file to another name...

--- wad

posted 05-02-99 02:52 PM ET            

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No offense, Wad, but I think you've missed the point here.

As a regular Hotseat player I'm constantly vexed by the fact that I can't save without exiting. I've had several sessions wiped out by an ill-timed crash. In the current game I'm playing both human players factions are quite sprawling and take an average of 10-15 minutes per turn each, even with extensive use of queueing, so we're forced to save every other turn or so just to avoid losing an hour of play to a terran.exe exception or the dreaded Blue Screen of Death.
Ok, ok, so quitting and then going straight back into the game doesn't take more than a couple of minutes at most on my P-pro 200, but it breaks up the flow of the game.
C'mon Firaxis, howsabout an addition in patch (sorry, enhancement) 4.0 that accounts for Hotseat seperately to PBEM and allows saving without exiting? Even a simple notification message like 'This player has saved without exiting x times during their turn' would seriously restrict abuse.

posted 05-03-99 08:13 PM ET            

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Aye it would.

Iron man is a setting... let it be turned off!!

-- Hugh

posted 05-06-99 04:23 AM ET            

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1. multiplayer
2. bottom option (5) - hotseat/email
3. add factions
4. play

if you don't have patch 3.0 you won't be playing hotseat anytime soon!

btw.. remember to save game every so often lest you lose the whole damn thing to crashes.

<rolls eyes>

-- Hugh

posted 05-06-99 07:04 AM ET            

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Hugh, actually, IIRC, Hotseat and PBEM were added in patch 2.0, not 3.0, so most people should be fine.

Aredhran

PS: You still haven't told me if you were that assassin from the Death Gate Cycle

posted 05-06-99 07:05 AM ET            

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What's this "crash" thing you guys keep talking about? Is it a special unit ability or a tech or something...(smirk--gloat)?

Lloyd

posted 05-06-99 10:15 AM ET            

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You know... Crash... as in Program Crash, Blue Screen o'Death... You name it.

It is a special ability with zero cost for all units with chassis Windows9x, and to get it you need a special tech, called Micro$oft, with prerequisites Monopoly (B93) and PC "Compatible" (D-38)

Aredhran

posted 05-06-99 03:52 PM ET            

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I am (or was) the top ranked warlords player- that's where most would know me from.

No i'm not familiar with the Death cycle series.

-- Hugh