Could read an enemy message

[Ahla]

I could see a message between our enemies in game 22214, a 2 vs 2 team game. I guess the message was sent during our turn while I was doing a move. I can't see it anymore.

Don't think it will have any impact on the game, but might be worth checking out to avoid future occurances.

[piranha]

Thanks for reporting. Will fix that.

[Maze]

What's the status?

game 24260: Could see a message between two other players (negotiating a pact against me :p). I sent them a message so they know about this.
Situation:
Turn 21. Started my turn. Couldn't see this message. Captured a city (Andor). Watched battle details. Closed battle screen. City was still neutral, with my winning stack on it. Refreshed (F5). Wanted to write my opponents a message and see this message between my enemies.

I quit the game until you guys have investigated. (Please advise when done. I already missed my previous turn so would like to finish this one on time. )

Another issue: I thought neutrals didn't ambush?! Attacking this city of Andor I got ambushed by a ghost. How is this possible? That's why I took a look at the battle details and then wanted to write a message to my opponents and ask them if they knew about this, when I suddenly saw this message between them.

[Moonknight]

Another issue: I thought neutrals didn't ambush?! Attacking this city of Andor I got ambushed by a ghost. How is this possible?

Before the last beta release, I know we discussed about changing it so neutrals did have ambush (which myself and at least KGB agreed with).

[piranha]

Ambush was removed from neutrals in beta 2 but it was put back in 0.8. There was some discussion about that. It was taken away at a time where all those crazy results keept happening before the 10% rule. But put back so that those poor ghosts can have a chance to defend themselves.

[SnotlinG]

Just to clarify Ambush on Neutral units:

In version 0.8 (current running version)
- Starting Neutral units do not have Ambush value
- Units converted to Neutral (due to player dropout) do keep their Ambush value
- Units produced by an Active neutral city do have Ambush value
(So in your case mentioned above probably it was due to case 2 or 3 here)

In version 0.9 (coming version)
- All Neutrals will have Ambush value as a normal unit, i.e. even the starting units...

[Maze]

Thank you for your reaction on my off-topic additional issue. What about the issue of being able to read enemy messages?

[Moonknight]

Thank you for your reaction on my off-topic additional issue. What about the issue of being able to read enemy messages?

It is a known bug for this beta and is supposed to be address before the release of the next beta. It's a bug that's been reported about 10 times now...so, be careful of what you say in the game chat box

[kenc80]

haha note to self. No more conversations with Xenocide about how to overcome you!

Whats going to be funny is us staring at each other for the next batch of turns because we are all at peace.