Auto-save at end of turn for multi-player

[batesmotel]

At least twice now I've lost turns when I ended my turn in a multi-player game and then encountered a network error when FoG tried to upload my game to the server. The only option left to me at that point is to re-download the game and make my move over.

The game should perform an auto-save before sending similar to it does when I close a game before finishing my turn. Of course it's always been in large games that this has happened so it would really be nice to get this fixed. Probably the auto-save should be done before doing the end of turn rallying, rout moves, etc.

Chris

[IainMcNeil]

We're trying to work out why this would happen on the server but as an interim this is not a bad idea - no idea how technically challenging it is though so going to move it to the support forum.

[batesmotel]

I debated which forum it should go in. At any rate, network failures are always possible without there being problems at either end so it seems like a condition the game should handle more gracefully. I haven't tried doing a manual save first before ending my turn but I'm not sure that would handle the issue since I'm not sure what happens to a saved multi-player game once it is loaded again. I suspect I will get in the habit of doing this in the future at any rate to see if it works around the problem.

Chris

[pantherboy]

Due to time constraints and a desire to think my moves through I regularly do a manual save part way through a turn and then come back to it at some later time. This practice primarily started as a result of the same problem you've been encountering.