Hey everyone, sorry for the delay on this. I've just pushed up a change that I believe will fix this issue.

Wow, that's odd. I can't seem to reproduce this. Sometimes Steam's third party login has strange problems- does this happen every time you try to sign in? Is it before or after the login page/Steam Guard?

Has anybody else here seen this? If this is a problem we can reproduce, I can contact Valve about it to see what's going on.

If Civilization crashes for any reason, it'll come out as a DirectX error. So, it's likely that there's a problem with the specific save. I'll take a look at it.

You'll find the host in the Permissions section, as well as any other permissions which have been granted to other users. You can see whose turn it is in two places: one is in the turns section, which will show the current turn at the top. The other place is the game overview page, which will have a large section for the player who's currently up (this only displays once a game has started).

New build is now up. Changes:

• Fixed some layout issues in Firefox
  
• Fixed team defaulting to 1 on all new player slots
  
• Increased session timeout to 30 minutes (should help to prevent the refresh page message)
  
• Windows app now shows all games, not just started ones

Game cancelling / leaving a game you created didn't quite make it in, but we'll have that soon.

As part of the new Multiplayer Robot, we'd like to have desktop apps for Mac and Linux. However, since neither of us have experience developing for Mac or Linux, we're creating open source initiatives in hopes that the community can help to create these apps. To help these apps come along as easily as possible, we're going to put the Windows app on GitHub to use as a reference. This should happen next month as part of the Oracle release (see: Trello[trello.com]). Around the same time, we'll also create official repositories for the Mac and Linux apps.

Here's some of the general ideas we've had regarding the development of these apps:

• All Multiplayer Robot communications happen over SignalR, so this will make things go much easier.

• This is the main reason we're making two separate repositories for Mac and Linux, instead of one cross-platform one. We want the app to feel natural and at home on its given system.
• It may make sense, however, to derive a core library of common functionality in its own repository that the individual apps will reference.

• Turn notifications, downloads, and uploads are the most important features.

For now, we'd like to get the conversation started for these apps. Here's some topics which we want to discuss:

• The Windows app is written in C# and targets .Net 4.5. A Mono-compatible core library could be refactored from it that could be used on either Linux or Mac.

• The Windows interface is minimalist, allowing users to play turns without ever even looking at its UI. We'd like to carry this over into the other apps.

• If this is the case, we may need some pointers from Mac developers on how to do this :)

So, if you're a Mac or Linux developer who is interested, sound off below. We need your help!

We're trying to get some help from the community for making Mac and Linux apps. However, in the meantime, we've significantly improved playing turns via the website. Here's how to do it:

1. Navigate to the game overview page for any game where it's your turn and click the giant "Play Turn" button.
2. Choose the "Download Save File" option and press Go.
3. When prompted, download the save file and place it in your Documents/Civilization V/Saves/hotseat directory.
4. Load and complete your turn in Civ V and then create a new save.
5. Locate the new save file in the hotseat saves directory on your system.
6. Drag the save file from your file manager to any browser window where you're logged into Multiplayer Robot.
○ You can drop it anywhere in Multiplayer Robot – you don't even have to be on the page for your game.
○ When you're holding the file over the page, it should tint blue and have a prompt that says "drop save to submit."
○ You can drag and drop multiple saves at the same time!
7. A thin, blue progress bar will fill up at the bottom of the page. When it fills up, you're all done!
○ You can drag and drop additional saves any time, even while an upload is in progress.

Screenshot[i.imgur.com]

The new Windows app has a streamlined interface, and automatically downloads and uploads your saves. This means the process for playing your turns is a little different. Here's how it goes:

1. When it's your turn, you'll get a notification in Windows. At this point, your turn is already downloaded and ready to play
2. Launch Civ V, go to Multiplayer -> Hot Seat -> Load Game. Any game where it's your turn will be listed as "(MR) <game name here>". You can launch Civ V from within the MR Windows App by clicking on the green Civ V icon wherever you see it.
3. Play your turn, then save when it's on the screen for the next player. Multiplayer Robot will automatically pick up the file and upload it behind the scenes

And that's all there is to it!

Also, the Windows app does have a few unfinished spots. There's buttons for private messages and notifications, but neither are wired up yet. We also don't have any interface for modifying your desktop app settings just yet.

Screenshot[i.imgur.com]

Alright, I think I've got the game reset. However, resetting a game is a bit tricky and requires some manual work, so if something doesn't work right you may need to leave that game and start a new one.

GMR gives this error when the current player index in the save doesn't line up with the next player it's expecting. You don't need to submit the save before completing your first turn - that's required for modded games to convert them to hot seat. Since you are doing a scenario game, the save was converted to hot seat when you created the game and provided the initial file.

Examining your save file, it looks like it's currently Japan's turn. This means that you'll need to download the current save from GMR, via the web or app, take your turn as Japan, then save and upload the turn when it's on Korea's turn screen. If you are unable to press continue on the screen for Japan's turn, make sure that you have downloaded the newest save from GMR.

That being said, if you're planning on playing on one computer, there's no need to bounce your saves off GMR. If both you and your friend disable password encryption from the game details page then re-download the save, you'll be able to play your game locally. If at any point you want to continue your game over GMR, you can upload your hot seat save as long as it's your friend's turn when you upload it.