RE: xconq 7.5a (win32)

["Frank Gulia" <fgulia at comcast dot net>]

Please remove me from this distribution list.

Thank You

-----Original Message-----
From: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com
[mailto:xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tyson & Dina
Ackland
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 5:20 PM
To: xconq7@sources.redhat.com
Subject: xconq 7.5a (win32)


I have followed this game for years when it originally came out on X11.

Was delighted to find this Windows version now that I have a home LAN 
and have been playing it with my son.

Couple of problems though:
1. Sometimes the selected item won't move.  When this happens, I 
minimise and then restore the window and find a different item is 
selected and this one I can move.
2. I have yet to complete a net game - at some point, a message appears 
saying the checksum doesn't match and the game appears to become 
unresponsive soon after.
3. Just now, I attempted to restore a saved game from it's save file and

a number of warnings were reported as it restored including "colour of 
units changing" etc.  I decided to ignore future warnings and the game 
restored but the map image was corrupted and refused to come good so the

game was impossible to continue with.

 From memory, these sorts of quirks have been around since the beginning

as I remember having problems restoring save files back on X11 too as 
well as the game occassionally locking up etc.  It's a pity as it 
renders an otherwise unparalleled open-source strategy game into a "I'll

play it if I'm really bored" sort of game.  What keeps bringing me back 
is it's addictive and I always hope I'll have no problems in the game 
but if the game play takes too long, one of these show-stoppers usually 
occurs.  If the developers could concentrate on rectifying these 
algorithm fundamentals and leave the interface/porting upgrades for a 
while, I think your game would be a real winner!

Cheers and all the best.