Server warning -- multiple downloaded turns?

[snoonk]

I just received the same message and like old warrior, I have not replayed any turns, nor have I done anything unethical like dropping off the internet to rerun a turn. I play on an iPad and it all seems fine and plays normally.

Steve "snoonk"

[pipfromslitherine]

Note that if you (e.g.) go to another App and leave an ongoing turn in the background, and the OS then kills BA later on then it would show up. I will check the logs to see which games etc have flagged.

Cheers

Pip

[BSump]

Hi- I'm also getting the same server warning. I know why this is happening- I'm on a bad internet connection and sometimes my turn doesn't upload to the server. Sometimes I do other things on my iPad, and when I come back I have to redo my turn.

It is at this point where I think the game could use some improvement. The fact that my turn progress is lost every time I leave the app (and open another one) is inconvenient when I have to redo the entire turn again, and allows cheating if I wasn't happy with the result. IN fact, I could just recon all of the parts of the map, exit out, reload the turn and then do the turn knowing where all of the enemy's pieces are. It would be great if the downloaded turn was autosaved after each individual piece was moved.

[pipfromslitherine]

Well, you can't just recon and reload, as the warning message you got shows you, but the issue of turns being lost when iOS kills the app is definitely fair.

We have looked at autosaves, but there are so edge case conditions (especially with people using multiple platforms) that are causing us some issues. It would definitely be better to try and finish turns in one sitting - a game as resource heavy as BA won't survive long in the background on most iPads as iOS will kill it off to reclaim memory.

Cheers

Pip