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More info?)
Thanks for the info . . I guess
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I finally had a samurai ready to ascend. Was just doing Vlad's tower and
needed to find the vibrating square.
Thanks again
"John H." <JohnWH@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> d wrote:
> > I had my connection drop while I was playing on nao. Now I get a
> message
> > that there is already a game in progress and do I want to destroy the
> old
> > game. Does anyone know of anyway to recover this game.
>
> As far as I can guess: the game may have crashed hard, leaving the
> playground littered with files (that's the "old game"), or the
> connection may have been dropped in a way that Nethack's own hangup
> detection didn't notice it and autosave. I don't think the software at
> NAO actually runs the game recovery utility at all -- I can see how
> someone might think that could make the game vulnerable to abuse.
>
> I had this problem last year, never could get someone in charge of
> running the server to recover the game for me (I think they just don't
> *do* that for players anymore), eventually someone cleaned out the
> playground and I lost the game, which was really annoying at the time
> because it was my first serious ascension candidate on the server.
>
> - John H.
>