Saving a Game - [RBP Help Contents]

RBP lets you save a match during your turn so you can open it later. Exception: you cannot save during certain specialized events in the game, such as an auction.

Choose the File, Save Game pull-down menu. In the Save a Game window, in the field at upper right type the name under which to save the match. RBP automatically appends an .rbz file name extension that indicates data compression has been employed to reduce the file size. If you want to save a game in uncompressed form, manually enter .rbg at the end of the name you enter.

Versions of RBP prior to 3.4 saved the contents of the History Box into a separate file with an .rbh file extension. By the way, an .rbz file is simply an .rbg (and .rbh) file zip compressed together.

LOCAL vs. ONLINE

Use the Save window's pull-down menus to switch between saving your games locally (on your device's hard drive or other storage device) or online (cloud storage). To employ online storage you need File Transfer Protocol (FTP) access to an online storage site of your preference. Online storage is useful if you want to access your saved games from any of multiple devices on which you play RBP.

When you choose Switch to Online for the first time, RBP will prompt you to enter FTP specifics: site, username, password, etc.  If you need to know the proper information for your site, contact your FTP service provider. The information you enter is preserved across sessions in a simple encrypted form via the RBP.INI file.  If you leave the password field blank, RBP will not save it into RBP.INI but instead will prompt you to enter it each session.

When entering a name under which to save your game, avoid including spaces since some FTP sites are not equipped to handle file names that contain spaces. Many people substitute an underscore character _ for a space.

As part of the FTP transfer process, RBP employs a temporary file saved in the Autosave location (folder) you specify via the Game Options window.

AUTOMATIC SAVES

If you want, via the Game Options window, you can tell RBP to automatically save the game before each player's turn (immediately after their main dice roll). This feature is handy if you are encountering odd problems, and want to save the game just before the problem occurs. Automatically saved games have names such as AUTOSAV1, and AUTOSAV2, where 1 and 2 are the player's turn order numbers. RBP places such saves in the Autosave location (folder) you specify via the Game Options window.

CONTINUOUS SAVES

It is also possible to save games played solely by the AI; see the continuous play information.