battles are true highlights and i think it would bring down the fun.
most battles happen vs AI ancient ships as well.
battles between player fleets donāt really come up often, except in the very last round(s).
i think we can take it.
so we came out with 3 SP players and 3 strangers in the game, right?
Yeah, thatās what it looks likeā¦
As for the AI combat, I switched to auto-pilot for Galaxy Trucker flights, and I found it greatly improved the online experience. I realize thatās a much lighter game, and that the fate of a few space bucks is all that is at stake, rather than the fate of the galaxy in Eclipse, so I understand wanting to be hands on!
what the heck??
this canāt be! i had won my fight against the Ancients in a kind of dramatic battle.
one of my cruisers had only 1 hull point left when a series of volley exchanges without hits on both sides came up. in the end both my cruisers survived and i was looking into a bright future.
i finished my turn and that was it.
how can i have timed out? no way!
ok, now iām starting to lose my faith tooā¦
and that really tells a story 
my last look into the lobby told me āwaiting for an opponentās moveā¦ā 
I saw the fight, then you neutron bombed the colonies, then took control, took the materials from the ancient discovery, then colonised all 3 planets.
yup, exactly.
it was a bit scary that i could not apply my hits manually although the setup was not on auto combat. i had to push on automatic for each single shot.
this is such a downer 
These Eclipse games are doomed to failureā¦
I donāt have a dog in this fight ā¦ but, yes. Yes, indeed. Yāall are doomed to disappointment.
Big Daddyās just does not get online multiplayer at all. They never have. I think they might be getting out of mobile publishing altogether, given the recent N. Hex announcement.
that came as a surprise.
i wonder if Portal gets it done with a new multiplayer client.
updating the app to latest cardboard edition 3.0 sounds good.
You timed out on forming a diplomatic treaty with the non-AI playerā¦
i had refused the offer because i intended to campaign against him.
i always go back to the lobby when i have finished my turn, just to watch the turn announcement flipping from āitās your turnā to āwaiting for an opponentās moveā.
(the same habit for Brass. after having done my turn i go back to main menu and tap on āonlineā once more to see if the next player is on correctly.)
iām so sure i did it this time too
to be honest, i would be glad if it had been my fault! sad and glad at the same time. i donāt want the game to be broken.
esp this game looked like it could evolve into something special and generate tons of battles and fun.
did you see still my turn announced in the lobby menu?
I was going to say that Iāve seen it not register my move a bunch of times, but it sounds like you did everything to account for thatā¦ I do check my turn every couple of days just in case I missed the notification, and last I saw it was waiting on the treaty.
i just noticed a strange behavior of the game.
in a game with strangers i got the notification that a player has timed out and his position was taken over by AI.
when coming into lobby i was surprised to see āitās your turn!ā, because i had made my turn not long ago in a 5P game.
entering the game i got to see ONE replay of the player on my right. then proceeding to next player thinking.
but it was not my turn.
so what about the āitās your turn!ā announcement??
just to look into the game? and thatās it?
but now the more important and startling question:
would i have timed out if i had not taken this look into the game?
so another player timing out activates MY timer? weird and dangerous.
can that have happened in our game? i remember something of a notification about a player timing out.
and i had not visited the game then.
I got a turn notification at the end of round 1, but it wasnāt my turn. I was wondering if they changed it that everyone had to acknowledge the Round 2 techs, but maybe it is more random than thatā¦
i think that was about the time when the first stranger had dropped out.
and now? Big Daddy Creations out of business? what about expansions and bugfixes? game would need a last finishing touch now.
but BDC went silent and does not answer emails neither.
@hardco did you just get a turn notification? I checked the app in case I had missed a notification, and the lobby said it was my turn. I logged in only to watch the red ai take control of a sector, now it seems its your turn
Yeah, Iāve been getting notifications consistently this gameā¦
playing in a game with strangers i just had to learn that with auto combat enabled we wonāt get to see combat animations at all.
bummer. downer. no way.
the battle in our game was a nail biter. a highlight.
missing that? not for me!
in my game with strangers exactly the same situation came up as in our 6P.
again i refused the offer for diplomatic relations by tapping the big fat X
and instantly the other involved playerās turn came up.
no slider for āend the turnā, no need to tap on anything. i could watch him make his move as a computer bot had taken over some turns ago.
when i left the game i could see āitās your turnā change to āwaiting for another playerās move!ā
so i did not miss any button or slider in our game and did nothing wrong.
a mystery!
must have had to do with these mysterious instances when our timer is activated without that it would be our turn.
just to watchā¦what exactly??
especially incoming notifications about āa player has left the game. computer will take overā (or so) are dangerous.
no word of warning that we must open the game nor that the timer might have been activated
i guess i got this notification about the third stranger having dropped out, but did not pay a visit to Eclipse then. two days later i was kicked.
one of the things in Eclipse which cry out loud for a fix!
but BDC has gone silent.
Ive randomly had to log in to watch the next (ai) player play. I finish my turn as normal then go on my way. The next day I check my turn just in case, only to find its my turn again. I get to watch the single ai player take its turn, then its hardcos turn. I assume this is when he gets the notification