Saving a Game - [EBP Help Contents]
EBP lets you save a match during your turn so you can open it later. You can name your saved games as you wish. EBP automatically appends an .EBZ file name extension.
By default, EBP saves games on your local device, but you can also save games to the cloud.
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 EBP.
When you choose Switch to Online for the first time, EBP 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 EBP.INI file. If you leave the password field blank, EBP will not save it into EBP.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, EBP employs a temporary file saved in the AutoSave location you specify via the Game Options window.
AUTOMATIC SAVES
If you want, via the Game Options window, you can tell EBP to automatically save the game before each player's turn. 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 ebpASxxxy, where xxx is the round number and y is a letter representing the player's turn (a=player 1, b=player 2, etc.).
CONTINUOUS SAVES
It is also possible to save games played solely by the AI; see the continuous play information.
FILE ASSOCIATION
If you wish, within Windows create a file association between the .EBZ saved game extension and EBP.EXE, and then in Windows when you double-click on a saved game, EBP will start and open that game. Use File, Create File Association to have EBP set this up for you. In some situations, you may need to clear or establish a file association manually; to learn how to do so in your version of Windows, do a web search for create file association.
UNCOMPRESSED SAVES
By default, EBP saves games in a zip compressed format with file extension .EBZ. To save a game without such compression, manually append ".ebg" to the game name you enter. Uncompressed games are saved with file extension .EBG.