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2:23 pm
January 14, 2010


fluoro


I love this app, and thanks to it I've discovered the wonderful FICS system.
So now I can play FICS on my iPhone, and in a simple yet very functional way.
But it has a problem… incoming calls cuts my 3G internet connection, and after the call ends the game will freeze. I've tried to telnet to my FICS account and I see the last game as {Still in progress} but I'm not very practice with the FICS system… what happens when I get disconnected? Do I lose the game? Will it pause/adjourn automatically? (and if so… is it possible to unpause/resumt it and continue to play on my phone or I have to do so online and how?)

Thank you,
~fluoro~

9:07 am
January 22, 2010


fluoro

I'm losing many FICS rated games because when I exit the app I cannot resume my last game, even if the opponent adjourns it.
Please add the possibility to resume games!!

9:27 am
January 22, 2010


Magnus

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fluoro said:I'm losing many FICS rated games because when I exit the app I cannot resume my last game, even if the opponent adjourns it. Please add the possibility to resume games!!


Hi Fluoro!

I'm sorry to hear that you're losing games and ranking because of this!!!!


You're not the only one who wants this functionality – we're currently working on version 2.1, which will include a new section in the app that allows you to see your old games and choose to resume/adjourn/adjudicate etc. Hopefully that will take care of your problem.


On a technical side note – the reason why the app is just abandoning FICS games when you accept a call, is that the iPhone OS quite rudely kills the app when a call is accepted. Even worse is that on 2G, the iPhone can't keep both a call and a data connection open – so the iPhone will kill the app.


This is how our app should work in the different 'call coming in' scenario

On 2G:

Someone calls you regardless if you answer or not: Game is dropped (adjourned if you are registered, lost if you're a guest).


On 3G:

Someone calls you and you don't pick it up: Game *should* continue as before the call

Someone calls you and you pick it up: Game is dropped (adjourned if you are registered, lost if you're a guest).


If you find that you can't keep playing a game even though you don't pick it up – please let us know as we've been testing this in a number of different scenarios during the beta test campaign…


Cheers,

Magnus


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