Multiplayer preferences

[BaggyLastard]

I've googled for hours and searched high and low for an answer, my preferences are all set to auto design, auto prune ect off, fast movement and battle resolution ect off, and everything works as it should in single player, but in TCP/IP multiplayer games, even with all the preferences changed it doesn't work, like the game automatically overrides my settings and won't let me change them. I might be imagining it but I'm sure i read it was a design decision and TCP/Directplay games override the settings to speed up gameplay, but I can't find the thread or website anywhere. I;ve scoured the alpha.txt and alphax.txt files for a setting to no avail, I can't work out if there's anything in the Alpha Centauri.ini to change it.

Could someone please shed some light if there is any way of turning off auto design and auto prune ext in directplay and tcp/ip multiplayer games and how to do so?

Many thanks

[Magitek]

Here's an executable hack fix for multiplayer:

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=17099.msg83882

[Nightmare]

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