Play Your Damn Turn (PBEM) - Hotseat Turn Timer Help

[Mike Rosack]

Hey, I'm Mike, I've been developing playyourdamnturn.com, a GMR clone (hotseat PBEM manager) for Civ 6. I think there's a couple people on these boards who have been using it, and one of them pointed me over here to ask for some help.

One thing that's really frustrating about the site right now is that we don't have a turn timer. It was actually one of the first things I tried to implement, and I've got the functionality on my side basically working, but there seems to be a bug in Civ 6 that prevents it from working - whenever you set a player from Human to AI and then back to Human, the game gets stuck in "Please Wait" mode. To reproduce:

• Create a hotseat game with all player slots set to Human.
• Play a turn or two, save the game, and exit back to the main menu.
• Load the game, and change the current player to AI (to "skip" them), play the next player's turn, save the game, and exit back to the main menu.
• Load the game, change the AI player back to human, and when you go to play the next player's turn the game will be stuck in please wait mode.

If anyone has any ideas to get around this, or can forward this on to a dev at Firaxis, that'd be great, thanks!

 

[razorace]

Is this still a problem after the Australian Summer patch?

 

[Mike Rosack]

Yeah, it still seems to be an issue. Also, it seems like there's a new bug with passwords being ignored in the Australian Summer patch, although I haven't nailed down exactly when or why it happens.

 

[DogBoy]

I have nothing of value to add because I'm not a programmer. But I do want to say thank you for PYDT. My username is geoffgreene511 and as you can see I'm an active player.

I hope you can help me. I'm getting the "Sorry we ran into an error" message. I can't log in to PYDT because it says either my username and/or password is wrong. I then enter my username and click the "I forgot my password" button, but it says my username doesn't exist. I try to log in through Steam but then I get an "The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable" message. I can still play my current PYDT games, but I can't start any new ones, join any new ones, or even post on the forums. Not sure what to do at this point.

 

[Mike Rosack]

Try it again, the web server gets in a weird state sometimes where it doesn't redirect correctly. I just have to resave a file to get it working again. :/ I'll get some better monitoring set up so I can detect when it's bad and fix it, thanks!

 

[DogBoy]

Try it again, the web server gets in a weird state sometimes where it doesn't redirect correctly. I just have to resave a file to get it working again. :/ I'll get some better monitoring set up so I can detect when it's bad and fix it, thanks!

Welp, it works now. I have been trying for about 3 hours to get it to work. I even re-installed steam earlier. But after you posted your message it now works. Thanks!