how do i get a saved game to attach for pbem?

@plasmaboy
I have moved your topic to the TripleA Support forum.

1. Start TripleA
2. Load the savegame hitting “Open saved game” and selecting your file
3. Klick “Start PBEM(…) Game”
4. On the next screen be sure to have entered the dice server and email details correctly
5. Hit “Play” and do your moves
6. Once your turn ends hit “Post Turn Summary”
   

HTH :slightly_smiling_face:

@plasmaboy You need to have a valid SMTP host. Most players use gmail which you can select in the “provider” drop down.

@plasmaboy Can you post a screenshot of your settings and the error message? You may need to adjust your gmail settings so it allows TripleA to post for you.

@plasmaboy Ok, the second one with the “@gmail.com” is how you want the login. The error indicates either your email or password is incorrect. I would recommend making sure you can login to the gmail account and make sure you are using the exact same email and password (preferrably copy/pasting your password to ensure its correct).

@plasmaboy Also you should remove the entries for ‘Play By Forum’ as those are redundant in case you intend to play by email. Also you will always receive an error message for that specific Play By Forum setting that you have entered, as “test” is not a valid entry for the topic-id. This topic-id must refer to an existing forum thread.

@plasmaboy You need to create a game thread and then follow this instruction:
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/1236499

This play-by-forum setting however is just for posting your turn and savegame. With this topic ID the software “knows” where on the forum the posting has to go.

Loading savegames only works as described above. You download them manually from the respective forum game thread (or email) and open (load) them in TripleA using the above described workflow.

@plasmaboy
Ah ok. Your topic started as being about Play By Email.
Now it appears that you are already playing a Play by Forum game. There appears to be a thread where you downloaded the savegame from. This thread already has a game-id then and you don’t need any Play by Email settings at all.

You might want to check
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/33080/turn-entry-errors
again, where I layed out in detail the differences when dealing with two different forums and two different usernames especially in this posting for you:
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/1262814

Now please point me to the thread/topic where you got your savegame from, and we will continue from there step by step. We will get that sorted for you!

@plasmaboy

To be clear allow me this question:

Are we talking about Play By Email ?
In that case you have received the file by email. The savegame is all you need then. You don’t need a topic ID then, as you do not fill in the Play By Forum settings, as I explained here. You just load the savegame as described in the workflow at the very beginning of this thread. Be sure that the Play By Email settings are correct then.

Or are we talking about Play By Forum?
In that case you have got the file downloaded from the game thread you talked about in one of your last postings. In that case you only fill in the Play By Forum settings, where you need a topic ID then.
You don’t fill in the Play By Email settings then.

It is either Play By Email or Play By Forum that you play. Not both. Depending on what it is, you only fill in the respective settings. Never both like you did as your screenshots show.

In case you Play By Forum I simply need the link to your game thread.
In case you Play By Email you have got all you need.

Just tell me what it is and we move on from there.

@plasmaboy I really need an answer to my latest posting. (https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/1280278).

In other words:

• do you want to send your savegames to the opponent by email
  or
• do you want to post your savegames to the forum so that the opponent gets it from there?

How did you get that savegame that you have loaded?

Concerning your latest screenshot:

In case you got the savegame by mail then remove all of the Play By Forum details and enter the Play By EMail settings instead.
You don’t need a topic ID then as you don’t need the forum settings at all. That’s is what I said above (https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/1279642).

In case you got the the savegame from a forum, then you get the topic ID from your game thread. See your last forum game that you played here;
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/33146/plasmaboy-vs-aldoraine-bm3/

Look at that link and identify “33146” as topic iD. Of course this is not the topic id for your current game, just an example of how to identify the ID.

As you said the game was opened on the TripleA site I went to forums.triplea-game.org and searched for any game you might be involved with but could not find any.

Again - how did you get that savegame that you have loaded above? What do you want to do?