@latenightgator for now you can look for new League games here on this board or through GMR messages as usual. However, Gak is working on a new feature on the new League site that would allow players to send out challenges. We will announce it when it is ready.

I will record the score, congrats on the win.

We are looking for a player to take over England. Only several turns are played by AI and England is in a good position in terms of score. As far as I know, we are at early stages and none has fought any wars yet, probablly each civ is on their own lrge island.

Scores:
Polynesia 233
England 228
Ottomans 216
Carthage 208
Denmark 194
Shoshone 180

[FILLED] http://multiplayerrobot.com/Game#7484

Hopefully it is fixed now as Nullmaster posted this on GMR comments page:

[link]http://multiplayerrobot.com/Game#362[/link]

"Yep, sorry about that but in one of the changes we made to improve performance yesterday we broke save downloading for the GMR Client. However we've just now got it working again! Please let us know if you experience any other issues."

I had the same error while trying to download a save file through GMR Desktop Client. Then, I tried downloading the same save file through the GMR Website and it worked!

I was able to upload the new save file through the GMR Desktop Client.

I do not have any other games that my turn is up at the moment, so I can not test another save file through the GMR Desktop Client, but with this limited data I can say that the workaround is to download save files from the GMR website.

I found what I previously posted on a game's comments and thought these detailed steps can be useful for players who need to run the fix to unbloat a save file:

Assuming you have the "Save File Unbloat Fix" and "Custom Advanced Setup Screen" mods AND do NOT have any other mod that replaces DLL (because there may be only one mod with DLL replacement as far as I know)

After you start CIV 5 and as usual, go to the DLC and uncheck G&K and BNW (this step is the precaution, not the fix of unbloat), in the "Main menu"

1) Click "MODS"

2) Make sure that both "Save File Unbloat Fix" and "Custom Advanced Setup Screen" are enabled (to be on the safe side I would disable all other mods, if you really like to have other mods enabled, you can enable them after you do the unbloat fix)

3) Click "NEXT"

4) Confirm that "MODS" window came up and shows these "Mods in use"

5) Right after clicking "NEXT" in Step 3, Click "SINGLE PLAYER" in the menu that appearred (Do NOT go back to the Main Menu to enter Single Player from there!)

6) Click "CUSTOM GAME"

7) Click "Load Hotseat Game" on the left list

8) Click "LOAD MOD" on the bottom right

9) Regular "Load Saved games" window will open, load the save file you want to fix

10) Once you save this game, the bloat will be fixed.

You can even immediately save the game before you play your turn, and play it later by using this fixed save. This method can be used if you want to use other mods while playing; just go back to Main Menu, disable Save File Unbloat Fix and Custom Advanced Setup Screen, enable the mods you desire, then load your fixed save file.

Usually, what I do is, just play my turn, hit "Next Turn" and save the file, then upload to GMR.

Just to provide a more clear instruction, here is the rewrite of the steps of the best/fastest option to prevent bloating:

When you start the Civ V game, go to the DLC menu from the Main Menu, uncheck the expansions (GnK and BNW, no need to uncheck the DLCs) (you need to do it only once per game session, meaning that next time you launch Civ V, you will have to do it again);

then every time you load a game, it will automatically go to configuration mode to adjust for the expansions needed for that save file.

When you are done playing your turn, hit Next Turn, save your game and submit to GMR.

Then you should go to Main Menu (which will cause the game to unload the DLLs as the expansions were unchecked and it needs to go back to the no expansion configuration).

This unloading of the DLLs will prevent bloating.

Unfortunately when GMR site is really slow, the workaround is also really slow and in some cases you may not even be able to get to the game page...

In case this slowness of the server is a sign of bad things to come (like what happened in Nov 2014), I am hoping that GMR developers are making backups. Furthermore, I encourage fellow players to keep a good save file archive as just a another backup.

When I get turn notification twice, I think I always get the turn of the player after me.

I believe this happens when:

you submit your turn through the desktop client,

even if the submittal was successful, somehow desktop client thinks it is not (this is much more common when the GMR server is performing slower than usual)

and asks the user if he/she wants to retry and the user says "yes" to retry, resulting in some sort of a double submittal. The player who downloads the save will see that the game prompts for the next player's password instead of his/her. At this point, there is no option but to revert the turn.


What I do to prevent the double submittal is:

the desktop clients says save submittal has failed and asks if I want to retry,

I do not give an answer yet, I go to GMR site, check the game in question (refresh page if necessary),

see if my turn can be seen in the "recent turns" tab,

if I see it, then I say "no" to retry (as everything is actually fine, GMR desktop is just giving a "false alarm"), if I do not, then I say "yes" to retry.

The side effect of this workaround is, your save file will not be renamed and moved to the GMR Archive folder automatically.

Yeah, submitting through GMR desktop is now working, although much slower than usual. However the issues with the website (comments, messages etc.) is still continuing :(