this happens too often for me.

Never heard this before.

Is it a recent problem?

this happens sometimes.. attackfailed, sendmessagefailed, etc. do you have a jittery internet connection?

when it happens to me, a refresh fixes it.

Same happened to me several times... ´think it´s a problem with my internet-connection. I don´t know... but it really sucks. Otherwise - lag is lag... most of us have the same problems...

while on the notebook i also thought it might be one of these wlan issues.

But today it happened to me on my desktop, and my cable modem is working actually quite reliable.

wow, as if the lag issue is not enough to take the fun away from the game.....not we have attackfailed!?!?

yea, this has been happening to me on occassion.

For me, it's a lag problem & my browser will usually play catch up with everyone else's moves after the attackfailed message

as a sometimes related, but usually separete issue: if the lag is bad, the browser loses track of whose turn it is. EG claiming it is blue's turn while [other color] is attacking.

Hmmm

it's as if the game is aging and all kinds of problems slowing surfacing........

I think I've seen that for awhile, maybe since December. It looks the same as lag except I have to fix it with a refresh. So when it looks like I lagged out I click sit out button, if a failed message appears in bottom left then I need to refresh, if it doesn't appear then I probably lagged out and missed my turn ;)

It could be the same reason people always type the period symbol in the gpokr chatbox? To see if they get a sendmessage failed error.