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Originally Posted by Mobhack
Not all of the messages get played in replays. PBEM replay may differ from own-game replays as well. Replay has always been an oddity of the SP system, and I have never really investigated the obtuse code that is involved in it.
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It would be great if you could generalise and reuse the implementation of replay used in local games against the AI, because it works well. Not sure, however, how difficult a task it is...
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Originally Posted by Mobhack
At least the game does have a replay function - it was added as a bolt-on update to SP1 way back in 98 or so, after the game had been out a year or 2 anyways. I think that was also what required an upgrade in the RAM to the full 4MB that MSDOS could handle.
Prior to that, SP1 had no replay whatsoever - you just opened up your game after a PBEM turn and stuff had blown up. A convention arose for PBEM players to sent a narrative description to their opponents when doing PBEM.
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Then the current replay is already a huge improvement. That convention of verbal summary in no good because the other player may not know how much information to disclose, which of his units were visible to the enemy during his turn, &c.