Play by Forum or Play by Email (was: Unable to load PBEM map)

@Stough The stickied threads in this category offer that information, for example
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/32464/triplea-new-stable-release-working-with-the-forum

@Ichabod So I can identify two different issues. First of all, your PBF username is not your email-address that you have entered but simply “Ichabod”. Enter Ichabod as Login and the forum password into the settings.

Second your TripleA still uses an outdated Java to be found in
c\program files\i4j_jres\1.8.0_66

That is an incompatible Java version that TripleA came with years ago that is still used despite you might have installed the latest Java, too.
So you need to manually delete this i4j_jres folder including its subfolders.

So once you have deleted this, you should try again, using the forum username and forum password.
In case it still does not work, please reinstall the latest Java 8 to be sure TripleA uses this new version.

After all these actions you should be fine using the dice server and posting your turns with TripleA 1.9.0.0.13066 on the new forum.

Good luck :slightly_smiling_face:

… and ask back in case you need further assistance.

@CrazyIvan Also for playing online you might want to check out our TripleA forum, especially the stickies there: https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/category/28/triplea-support

@redrum

I am not worried about how it is done as long as it is obvious. attack power least to most and according to alphabete is fine. It is confusing the way it is written in the email and how it turns out in the forum post

Feel free to move my post!

In fact it was only one border line to change.
First I changed it in the bastile map, adding a new line some pixels to the right of the old line in pure black and then erazing the old line.
Then I reconstructed the relief-art. In paint.net I added a new layer to the base map pasting the relief art to it. Then I copy-pasted the new border line to the relief art. From the relief art I removed the old border line using the clone-stamp.

Then I ran through the Map Builder tools such as polygon grabber etc. to implement the changes to the relevant txt-files.

Just take a look at the files to see the results.

Thanks Panther, you’re a genius!  :-)

Playing Pac 40 for the first time ever and thought I’d try out the underdog - the Chinese. Needless to say I am having my butt handed to me in a wok.  :-P

It’s cool fun though.

Hi there Rem,

Personally I’m too lazy to do all the typing required for forum PBEM, plus I can’t the get software to work right, so I prefer TripleA PBEM.  TripleA is also the best for minimizing human error (ie map mistakes).

On the other hand, ABattlemap will probably be the first to have a AA40P module.  You will just need to download the Battlemap utility and the relevant maps.

AB download…
http://www.axisandallies.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=116&Itemid=67

Some help…
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=11223.0

Sounds like the version you are using is still the “hacked” version that was never part of the sourceforge project.  Therefore, nothing is supported in your version, and nothing will ever be fixed in your version.  The unstable version at triplea.sourceforge.net are at least supported by the tripleA development team, so there may still be bugs with them, but at least any bugs will be fixed in future releases.

I’d recommend running (not walking) to triplea.sourceforge.net and downloading the lastest unstable release 0.9.4.1 (since no stable releases yet have support for PBEM).

Convince your opponent to use the same version - it shouldn’t be hard if they were using the same version you had (that you say doesn’t work any more).