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[EEE_BOY]

Can we please ask GMR admin to manually replace the AI with player Onan in this game?

http://www.multiplayerrobot.com/Game/Details/1279

The reason why automatic invite not working is because the invitation was sent before the player was dropped, so accepting invitation will receive message saying the game is full. Now the player dropped, but the invitation still stands, and the host can't re-invite the same player. The old invitation still gives the same message saying game is full. That's why I think manual process may be needed. Thank you very much.

 

[m4stermel]

I think I will turn #1 off, or at least set it to be very long. When it pops up, it interferes with the minimap in game. It even reminds me of the turn I'm currently playing.

Yeah, I didn't realize effectively how short the default interval was for that. I've put out another update that changes the default interval from 1 to 15 minutes. It will also let you set a larger value in the settings.

 

[m4stermel]

Can we please ask GMR admin to manually replace the AI with player Onan in this game?

http://www.multiplayerrobot.com/Game/Details/1279

The reason why automatic invite not working is because the invitation was sent before the player was dropped, so accepting invitation will receive message saying the game is full. Now the player dropped, but the invitation still stands, and the host can't re-invite the same player. The old invitation still gives the same message saying game is full. That's why I think manual process may be needed. Thank you very much.

Done. I'll have to do some testing to see why it still gave him the "game is full" message after the other player dropped.

 

[Foffaren]

Seems like I have the same problem with the replacing thingy.

http://www.multiplayerrobot.com/Game/Details/769
Trying to add michael.trnka as Siam but it says the game is full for him.
Manual replacement/troubleshooting please.

 

[m4stermel]

Alright, I figured out the problem and got it fixed. He should be able to join the game now using the invite you already sent him.

 

[michaeltrnka]

Alright, I figured out the problem and got it fixed. He should be able to join the game now using the invite you already sent him.

Thanks Mel works great!

 

[KiffeLesBiffles]

Hey !

I would like to know if it would be easy to do a team mode for GMR game. I.e, a options where people make team for a game a where all the members of the team receive the copy of the save. And only one people needs to play the turn.

I say that because I would like to set up a Community game. Thx !

 

[m4stermel]

That's a really neat idea and one that's been requested before! We would love to do it, but it would require some serious changes to our system's structure. So we're keeping it on the back-burner for now

 

[KiffeLesBiffles]

That's a really neat idea and one that's been requested before! We would love to do it, but it would require some serious changes to our system's structure. So we're keeping it on the back-burner for now

ok thx

 

[Foffaren]

Having the weirdest problem right now. The GMR app is stuck in the taskbar. It is active but it wont show up as a window where I can actually use it.
If I click on it in the taskbar nothing happens the first click. The second click it gets minimized like it always does. I tried alt-tabbing to get the window up, tried rebooting and reinstalling the app. Rebooted windows. So far nothing have worked.
As far as I know this only happens with the GMR app. No other programs does this.
I'm using windows 7 64bit.

Any ideas?

 

[EEE_BOY]

Restart your computer

 

[LostKnight]

Foffaren, I have the same problem. The trick that I found is that if you hover your cursor over the GMR tab in the taskbar, you will see a little preview.

Right-click on it, and choose *maximize* Once you have the GMR window up, just reduce it to the size you want/need!

 

[Foffaren]

Well look at that. No thanks you E.
Worked wonders LostKnight. Thank you very much. Always in the last place you look I guess.

 

[m4stermel]

Awesome, thanks for the solution LostKnight!

 

[Itrade]

In a few months' time, do you think you could post some stats about how many people donated how much? I've got this suspicion that the $5 option will never be used; people will just look at it and see how they get get unlimited games for just a few bucks more. However, if it was removed, the amount of people donating would drop, because the way I see it there are three kinds of donors: those who would donate at almost any price, those who would donate only a small amount, and those who would donate a small amount unless they saw what a great deal a larger amount was. The majority of people are in the last group, and if the only options were "Donate $15" and "Donate nothing", they'd have nothing to compare with and they would just let themselves be content with a couple free games.

 

[m4stermel]

In a few months' time, do you think you could post some stats about how many people donated how much? I've got this suspicion that the $5 option will never be used; people will just look at it and see how they get get unlimited games for just a few bucks more. However, if it was removed, the amount of people donating would drop, because the way I see it there are three kinds of donors: those who would donate at almost any price, those who would donate only a small amount, and those who would donate a small amount unless they saw what a great deal a larger amount was. The majority of people are in the last group, and if the only options were "Donate $15" and "Donate nothing", they'd have nothing to compare with and they would just let themselves be content with a couple free games.

Yeah we'll definitely share with the community how well things go with GMR and what kind of support we see. We're still testing out this new tiered support implementation, but in the 5 days since we made the change we've had 3 people take the $5 option and 1 person take the $15. So we'll see how it goes, we definitely appreciate any bit of support we get, large or small and enjoy supporting GMR and its community in return!

 

[Regul]

Hi,

well, currently hosting a game on GMR and set up a G&K DLC game 'Epic Struggle' #1553 and we encountered a huge problem.

One of our players robh got the turn for player vra379971. He left right now, while before Zorzak got the turn for robh and just saved.

Any idea what might have happened?

 

[Foffaren]

Sometimes that happens when people join/leave. Try reverting a few turns back. Atleast back the the player that is before the AI player. Usually works.

 

[Regul]

Well, one player left and i reverted the turn. No changes.
After the second reverted turn another player left and now it works.

Problem now is, that i can't generate invite links any more...i could choose to generate them, but i can't read any text inside the field. So i could not offer the free AI slots for players.

Besides i posted the GMR-link to game and hopefully one could join.

Any idea what happened or how we could get some new players in? The old players can't join due to the 2 free games limit.

 

[Onan]

Stickied in this forum is a thread for important GMR announcements, such as finding subs. Post there.