reloads are putting me off this game

[m5000]

hmm, i think bidermann may be referring to me as one of his oppoents with whom he gets reloads... or hopefully USED TO get reloads :)


they will sometimes happen when you're playing a number of scenarios at the same time and save, maybe they shouldn't but they do, so i think that this game feature needs improving, e.g i've been playing 4 scenarios and one of them is FitE, i can't play a FitE turn without saving - i usually do even 8 or 10 times during a turn, the same often happens with smaller scenarios, especially ones where there is a lot of micromanagement - a lot of small units and a great many different, carefully planned attacks - so i plan some, save, quit, do something else or play a different scen, then after some time go back, etc - and apparently this may produce reload messages...


this is rather anoying because when these things happen people may think you're cheating, which is not bad when you're really cheating :) but unfair when you're not, i also get some relods from some of my opponents now and then...

frankly speaking, i think that most of these reloads that happen to people are accidental resulting from a badly implemented game feature, this is so because everyone around knows that there are these anti-cheating features so who but a complete fool would try to actually deliberately cheat...

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Keith, this is important - do you still get these reload messages from my turns? - hopefully not becasue i try to finish the turns without saving - it can be really painful sometimes :(... (especially with FitE), i feel kind of uncomfortable about these messages because i think i've been doing pretty well in our scenario and now that you've informed you get the messages, it may seem that my 'successes' result from cheating...


cheers


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and just one more thing that came to my mind after i'd written the main post - it seems to me that playing this game is getting more and more frustrating and stressful, mainly because of these anti-cheating features which seem to take away fun from the game, it's just every time i open TOAW, i sweat and start thinking what to do and not to do, and how to handle the game, when or indeed whether or not to save, when or how to quit, etc. so that that some stupid reload message doesn't turn up - which is really turning into some kind of phobia...
it's like TOAW has suddenly become a foreign useless cup made of china which must be handled with great care becasue otherwise it'll break into pieces, instead of a familiar pint of beer which it should be...

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and yet another thing, it sometimes happens that when i get a turn file from one of my opponents i don't have the time to play it, but i'm curious about my opponents' moves and i only open TOAW to see these moves, having seen them and satisfied my curiosity, i simply quit and go on to do some other things like work or study, i think many players may behave like this, yet i suppose the game may count such behaviour as reloading, i don't mention that fact that it won't allow you to quit in a normal, 'casual' way but every time you want to do this it actually forces you to save

anti-cheating features are perhaps a goodd idea, but features that restrict your freedom and force you into some kind of artificial, silly behaviour are definitely not...