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Multiplayer instability symptoms

Posted on Thursday, March 19, 2015

Greetings.  My father and I are having a blast helping test out Galciv3.  We play multiplayer for the most part although we each have our own single player games going when we're not together.  Here is a list of our findings in multiplayer that the devs might/might not be aware of already:

 

-If the active player ends their turn while a waiting player is in a tech tree or colony management screen, the game will sometimes crash.

-Periodically the United Planets pop-up will not display on one of the players screen.  This will either lead to client crash or the game is just stalled because the player never gets the pop-up to vote.  We've decided to turn off UP for multi-player games until beta 5.

-The game sometimes hangs up on "Starting New Turn".  Saving and restoring the multi-player session seems to alleviate this.

-Sometimes a player will be sent to the main menu in the middle of their turn.