CS - thx for the responses
Yep not tested much at all other than in pitboss doing the kick and it showed the AI had taken over - was difficult to test without any info on what it was meant to do
But now makes sense. Sounds like it could do with the ability to retire or retire and let AI take over. But either way its a minor point in the scheme of things.
I'm not sure if this was known before but it would have helped to understand this - I spent literally hours on Friday night playing with all of the permuations available (because I couldn't believe this had been missed) - I appretiate that we are beta testing this - but this is a major issue for a persistant server - not even sure how you would hope to run pitboss as it is intended without some form of notification that a turn has been genned.
Port forwarding - yep done this and it works fine. I use direct connect but then I can't really see why you'd do a pitboss through gamespy - these are games that I imagine may go on for weeks if not months
I've now stopped any more work on it - unless something additional is posted in here - need the email working to use this thing properly in anger.
Tals
p.s I should add that I am pleased that Firaxis have allowed us to see it even at this stage, it gives confidence that the feature I really purchased the game for is on its way and pretty much as I had hoped it would work. Just be useful to have an indication on when the next updates are likely