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Question for everyone in reference to the Turn Entry Program. 

In the last two turns, I've had single orders, MCR's in both cases nullified because when the turn was run the Victory turn processing program seemed to have omitted a letter within the spelling of a single location along the path. For example, instead of xkulebaki showing in the MCR rail path, xkule aki. The letter was missing and the gap was present. This does not show in the Turn Entry Program you as a player are/were working on so there is no way to catch the omission/error on the players end. Even if you open the .trn file to see the actual text line by line, it doesn't look like it shows there either. 

Is anyone else seeing any of their turns have this issue? If so, we need to all let RTG know so a fix can hopefully be worked on.

Michael    

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I had the same thing in turn 2. Also in a MCR order. Pete repaired the effects to the best extent possible and we hoped it was just a glitch.

He suggested it was caused by the transfer process to feed the orders to the old apple hardware on which the program runs and reformatted all the disks he uses for that.

Now you have the same problems we can rule out hoping it was "just a glitch". 

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I've seen that happen, but given the incredibly vast number of orders that run just fine, it's really rare.  Replacing hardware is tricky because the processing computer is so old; still, I'll see what I can do to mitigate or otherwise minimize the chances of the dropped letter issue.

Update:  I picked up a small hub today that offers a nice, tight connection for the device needed to translate data from the PC to the Mac.  It worked fine on some simple tests I just ran--with any luck this will clean up the very rare but also very annoying dropped letter issue.  There are other steps I can take in case that doesn't work, but hopefully this is all that will be needed.

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