That's odd. I'll look into what happened there. In the meantime, I skipped the turn manually.

We've actually experimented with converting a hot seat save to a standard multiplayer save, but unfortunately Civ V doesn't like it and just crashes :(

Unfortunately, GMR has no control over most of the inner workings of a save. The diplomacy bug is from Civ V's hot seat game mode. I've had it happen in some of my own games, and I'm really not sure what causes it or how to fix it.

There's a Civ V bug which could be causing this. When a hot seat turn is on the black screen, the game is already running in the background. Sometimes, keys can "leak" through this screen into the actual game. This means that pressing 'e' in this screen could result in that command leaking into the game itself. You could try clearing your player password to fix this (other players can't access your turns anyway, since we set all other players' passwords to untype-able characters).

As for touchpads, Windows 8 will generally register tapping with two fingers as a right click, and tapping with one as a left click. Your mileage on this feature will vary depending on the hardware and drivers of your laptop.

I went ahead and cleared out the turns for the game you linked so it should be in a fresh state for you to upload the initial file.

GMR's turn counter is independent of the game's. It wont know if you took one turn vs. ten. However, Multiplayer Robot 2.0 will have more sophisticated save file parsing and will be able to pull the actual number from the file.

Glad you're enjoying GMR! You can play your game locally, as long as you follow a few steps:

- All players need to turn off password encryption for the game via the game's detail page
- Download the save as if you were taking your turn. At this point, the file should play normally.
- Get the game to where it's waiting for the player after you, as if you'd taken your turn on GMR. Upload this as your turn.

I've actually been considering something similar to what you're both describing. However, rather than have a player designate when they tend to play their turns, I was planning on making Multiplayer Robot intelligent enough to figure it out on its own. The plan is to use this data for estimating when turns will be taken (visible on the game overview page on the designs) and auto player ordering. We can probably display this information in detail on player profiles, too.

Thanks to the feedback of GMR user Xaviien, we've decided to use this area as our official forums temporarily

Meanwhile, we are continuing to work on GMR 2.0 (Multiplayer Robot), which will have built-in forums at launch. When we do launch Multiplayer Robot, we probably won't be able to migrate anything from here, but we'll see what we can do.

Sorry about that! The server was having responsiveness issues that should be resolved now.