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If you drop from the game now, leaving Ted the last one in, he will be declared the de facto winner automatically.

David

A player in tailored3g has requested that, in order to accommodate their travel, we pause the game for two weeks after the Feb 16 turn, so that the turn originally scheduled to run on Feb 23 will instead run on Mar 8. I agree that putting the game on hold is generally better for everyone in it than ...

Great! If the client doesn't offer you the upgrade when you get home, you might be running the 32-bit version there for whatever reason. In that case, go to the Clients page and explicitly download the 64-bit version.

David

Oh, and to be clear, the update is only in the 64-bit version. The nature of the bug that I fixed was that the 64-bit version of the client was running partly with a 32-bit limit. To pick up the fix, you'll need to switch to the 64-bit version if you're not already using it (and looking at the logs,...

OK, I did actually find and fix a real issue that could cause a crash with large game files, so I went ahead and posted a new official client update, 1.0.8.3. It should offer you this version to download; please let me know if it seems to solve the problem for you.

David

I'm pleased that Jim's offering the use of his client to try out; I've gone out of my way to design the RSW server to be compatible with existing clients for Starweb as well as be open to new clients (such as Jim's) developed specifically for RSW. I want RSW players to have lots of options available...

Did it eventually clear itself up?

When you say it "crashes" do you mean the client just disappears? Or does it pop up an RSW error dialog and offer you to send the bug report to me? If the latter, then it's indeed a software bug in RSW that I should be able to fix; please do send the bug report to me so I can analyze it. I...

I kind of like keeping the behavior a secret, even after game ends. It makes it harder to enumerate the list of possible Pandora's Box behaviors. You might figure out what you *think* it does in a given game, but maybe you're not 100% right; or maybe you were but it's slightly different in the next ...

I agree it's confusing that the "end condition" of a game is different from the "win condition". The game parameters let you select from one of a handful of different "end conditions", including the default behavior that the game is ended when one player crosses a certa...

Sounds like a corrupt game database, try refreshing the database according to the usual instructions: Quit the client, then find the client database and delete or rename it out of the way. This is in the folder c:\Users\<your name>\AppData\Roaming\RSW\clientdatafiles . Note that the folder AppData i...

Just kicked it in the pants, should be good now. Sorry about the lock-up.

David

No worries! For anyone else reading this thread, it's worth pointing out that RSW figures out your preferred timezone in two different ways: on the web, it asks your web browser for your current timezone, but this isn't 100% reliable so you can also override this explicitly on the Personal Info page...

Ah, I see what happened. My mail service is rejecting emails to your email address because after an email attempt on December 22, your domain reported "user unknown", for whatever reason, and that put your email address on a blacklist. I'm guessing that was a temporary fault with your emai...

Hmm, as far as I can tell, emailed turn reports are working on the server. Are you getting any other email messages from the server? Have you checked your spam folder?

David