Red Planet Blues: a Terraforming Mars tournament

I always see replays when I have stayed logged in to a game … that is, I do not come out of the game and when I next open up the app I am still connected to the game. But never replays when I have had to load a game from the Resume list. You said that you had to login so ??? that’s a new one on me.

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got the notification from TfM that “one of your games has ended”.
i had some (silly!) hope this could mean that…but no no no.
so what kind of mad mockery was that senseless notification?
thanks for making fun of me, Asmodoh!
correct notification must be:
“one of your games has ended but we won’t show you the result, dummy!” :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

btw how DID our 4P game end?
i hope @kennfusion has taken a screenshot.

hmmm…that is necessary? I was unaware. I came in last is all I remember.

/removes noose from neck and steps down from chair, weeping with relief.

Wellp, there’s a problem. @kennfusion - can you remember who came first? And (even if roughly) what the scores were?

As I was not clear in the housekeeping section;

@Everyone

If YOU are the LAST player in the final (greenery-planting) round, you MUST screenshot the results screen.

In a very special design choice from Asmodee, no-one else gets to see it.

Nope, sorry and I did not realize I was the last person, I checked it literally moments before getting on a plane thinking I had to take a turn when I got a notification.

I was not aware this was a problem, even if you mentioned it @SpiceTheCat sorry. I did not remember. This makes this app unplayable in my opinion.

holy moly! you must be joking!
the “discussion” or better lament on this is going on for years.

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I should have been clearer in the housekeeping guidance. No worries.

Ok, Table F (@JammaTal, @Schlotzky, @OhBollox, @kennfusion), we need to decide what to do now. Proposals;

  1. rerun the game. I’m happy with this but it would need everyone to take their turn promptly.
  2. as @kennfusion sportingly noted that he came last, run a 3P game with the other 3 of you to decide a first place. I would take the points from this game for tie-break purposes and allocate kennfusion the last place score -10 points.
  3. treat it as a bye, and everyone gets 2 points and the average 3rd place score from the other tables.

Or any other creative solution. Open to suggestions.

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my vote goes to option 2.

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Option 2.

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I think this was only my 3rd game of this. I think I only got it for the last Decathlon. I joined this just because I have the game, and have almost never played it.

I don’t care either way. Option 2 is fine with me if that’s the preference.

Hey all, this one is on me as organiser. I should have been much clearer about the problem with the game, and not assumed that people were aware.

@kennfusion - sorry for leaving this particular pitfall that you happened to be the one to fall into.

I’m kind of glad that it happened in the first round at least. I’ll add the reminder to the housekeeping text for the next rounds.

@JammaTal, @OhBollox, @Schlotzky - please run a 3P game, same settings as before, call it Table F2. Winner takes 3pts, next two places get 2pts. Post that you’ve kicked off. TVM.

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No, I probably should have read through the thread better and payed better attention. I often skim these threads. Even with me literally looking at the score and than hopping on a plane a few minutes later, taking a screen shot on my ipad is just hitting 2 buttons, and I could have uploaded later.

And I did intend to go back and look at the score details later, so I could figure out where I fell so far behind.

On a side note, I still have no idea how anyone puts all of the dev work into these games, and cannot solve for problems like this. The result is when I am back at my hotel later, I will give this app 1 star in the App Store.

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i doubt that this will help much to improve the app.
better send a report to support and demand an update.
i guess we all have done so already, but the more complaints the better.

i have just sent another complaint to the support.
you can do this ingame in “options/support”, then scroll down till “contact us”.

Whether you think you’re not the last player, If you see the scoring screen, take a screenshot ANYWAY!

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I’ll be taking a screenshot, and getting my phone to take a picture of my screen too