Issues with multiplayer loaded game [Freeciv-web]
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 3:29 pm
Hello everyone, nice to meet you. I am new here but used to play lots of Freeciv back in the day.
I have only recently discovered Freeciv-web and I love it, since it allows me to play with friends online.
Or so I thought...
We played a multiplayer game for hours and then saved it.
I was the game creator and when the day after I was going to load the savegame, all seemed fine.
Unfortunately it turns out my friend can't control any of their units once they re-join the game.
Let's see if we are doing this right first of all...
a) I go on https://play.freeciv.org/ and click Load Game button
b) I enter my initial Player name and click Customize game
c) I select the latest savegame from the night we played and load it
d) in the Settings, I enter again the password to make it protected
d) this is when I tell my friend the game is live
e) she goes to https://play.freeciv.org/ and clicks on Multiplayer games
f) she switches tab to Single-player games
g) she scrolls down until she finds the game I just reloaded, and clicks Observe
h) enters Player name and goes in - initially she sees the whole map
i) in the chat box, she types: /take XYZ (where XYZ is the name of the nation she was playing the other night)
j) I get a message in the chat box that the civilization XYZ is now under my friend's human control
k) she can now see the original worldmap she had explored last night
l) all happy? NO
she can't click on any of her units, or enter any of her cities. She doesn't actually control her nation
*m) I tried to take over her nation by using the same /take command, and I can effectively control it. even more bizarre
What are we doing wrong? Or is it a bug?
Thanks a million, I would love to play more freeciv-web... Sorry for long post!!
I have only recently discovered Freeciv-web and I love it, since it allows me to play with friends online.
Or so I thought...
We played a multiplayer game for hours and then saved it.
I was the game creator and when the day after I was going to load the savegame, all seemed fine.
Unfortunately it turns out my friend can't control any of their units once they re-join the game.
Let's see if we are doing this right first of all...
a) I go on https://play.freeciv.org/ and click Load Game button
b) I enter my initial Player name and click Customize game
c) I select the latest savegame from the night we played and load it
d) in the Settings, I enter again the password to make it protected
d) this is when I tell my friend the game is live
e) she goes to https://play.freeciv.org/ and clicks on Multiplayer games
f) she switches tab to Single-player games
g) she scrolls down until she finds the game I just reloaded, and clicks Observe
h) enters Player name and goes in - initially she sees the whole map
i) in the chat box, she types: /take XYZ (where XYZ is the name of the nation she was playing the other night)
j) I get a message in the chat box that the civilization XYZ is now under my friend's human control
k) she can now see the original worldmap she had explored last night
l) all happy? NO
she can't click on any of her units, or enter any of her cities. She doesn't actually control her nation*m) I tried to take over her nation by using the same /take command, and I can effectively control it. even more bizarre
What are we doing wrong? Or is it a bug?
Thanks a million, I would love to play more freeciv-web... Sorry for long post!!