Rival selection in the first round

[americaneagle]

My partners in crime any I are having a great time at this site and playing this game.

Question; what restrictions are there in choosing the Rival card? I did not experience this problem being the Emperor, but one player stated to me that he tried to select the card and was unable to. What would cause that?

1) cannot pick Rival card in first round? that seems a bit odd to skip Phase VI

2) cannot pick Rival card if income is zero? that seemed a bit odd as the cost of the Rival card is zero

3) I have not a clue; HELP....

[astroglide]

i'm not aware of any restrictions, rules or mabiweb, in selecting the rival card outside of being the emperor yourself. i suspect your friend may not have ben logged in while viewing the game, and thus unable to select anything at that point.

[Crockerdile]

I was the player in question.

I was logged in. The game just made me choose something else.

[astroglide]

i will attempt to reproduce it in my next game.

[MaBi]

There are no restrictions for taking the Rival card, except of course being in the Actions Phase and not being Emperor. And after so many games played it's unlikely to still have such an obvious bug. Anyway, should it happen again please leave the game as it is, in the position where you can't take the Rival, and notify me so I can have a look (but consider that I will be very unresponsive until next week, when I will be back from holidays).

[astroglide]

reported at game id 24181: "i wanted to take rival card but clicking on it doesnt have any effect!!!"

could it perhaps be browser-related like http://www.mabiweb.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=284 ?

[MaBi]