Slitherine

Sea loin scenario, beach invasion. German assaults uk

Issue: crash after turn ending while typing message to opponent allowed me to replay turn.


I finished my turn human play beach scenario. I'm Germany. I finished my turn and began typing a message to my opponent. I typed a few words when the game suddenly closed on me. I reloaded the game as it appeared in my list. So, even if you finish your turn by having a crash (by chance or otherwise) you can replay your entire previous turn. When I restated the game I watched the previous player turn as if I had never played my turn at all.

It sucks that I must replay my turn knowing the ambushes I can avoid....

Very disappointed.

There isn't really any way around this kind of issue. While it would be simple to save a turn as it goes along, we then run into problems when people are running the game on multiple platforms or iPads (for example).

Can you let me know what version of iOS you are playing on please. It feels like perhaps the newer version use more memory when they pop up the keyboard (leading to iOS deciding to kill the game you are playing), which would be annoying.

If anyone is deliberately replaying their turns, the server tracks this and we send them appropriate warnings followed by any necessary action.

Cheers

Pip

Hello,

The crash only occurred once so it is not an issue with my new IPAD that is fully updated. Perhaps the crash was related to a cut in the internet wifi connection....

My greater concern is the fact that it is possible to crash the game and restart your turn. I'm sure that 99% of players are honest and I have only suspected one player of having an amazing ability of destroying or avoiding my hidden infantry waiting in ambush....

It would be nice if a crash would cause an end to the game with a loss to the crashing computer. Obviously this would be unfortunate for the loser in the case like mine where the crash occurred at no fault of my mine but I would be willing to accept this if meant that players would no longer cheat.

As I say, we can track any instance where a player downloads a turn more than once, and we send out warnings and then take further action as necessary. We think this gives the best balance between preventing cheating and not over-penalising legitimate crashes.

Cheers

Pip