1.61Patch out!

[sabrewolf]

specialist bug explained and solved

coming back on the "specialist bug"... i read an answer by a firaxis developer:

The problem is that the city has a "forced" specialist (hence the yellow box)... try turning citizen automation on and off and see what happens. I believe this is an artifact of loading a 1.5[2] game in 1.6[1]...

although i (thought i) had tried that before, after his comment it worked fine again. maybe i just hadn't tried it in all cities.

anyhow, switch ON the governor, maybe emphasize food, then switch both OFF again... and it should work.

[sabrewolf]

generaldoktor: that was just a joke by geomodder and me


oh, and good that you're enjoying the game too

[MikeH]

Re: specialist bug explained and solved

Originally posted by sabrewolf
coming back on the "specialist bug"... i read an answer by a firaxis developer:



although i (thought i) had tried that before, after his comment it worked fine again. maybe i just hadn't tried it in all cities.

anyhow, switch ON the governor, maybe emphasize food, then switch both OFF again... and it should work.

I wasn't talking about a yellow box forced specialist... but I'll try that fix.

[DaveV]

Originally posted by LDiCesare
Has anyone else experienced terrific globe view with 1.61? It was fine for me with 1.52 but now tiles with improvements get shown as black squares with the improvement shown inside, which results in the globe view being almost unusable. Of course my graphics card is really old, but I wonder if anyone else saw something similar?

Yes, I have exactly the same problem. I have an Nvidia GeForce4 440 Go, with 32 megabytes of RAM.

[Chaos Theory]

Minor bug:

When a civ harvests a resource you haven't revealed (such as iron), you can see a seemingly illegal improvement (such as a mine on a flatland plains). If you take over this tile, the city view shows the yield for the tile assuming you have revealed the resource (that is, 1/5/0 in this example), but the world view shows the tile as not providing the yield the resource would give, just the amounts from the base tile and the improvement (1/3/0). This latter total is the one actually obtained from the tile.

[Gannet]

Well, being the official last guy to know there was an update.... I am having problems. Loads of XML erros when I load it (Tech_communism, BuildingClass_Forbidding Palace, BuildingClass_Three Georges Dam) and when I play I get a Leader_Chinese_Leader error. The game still works but I haven't gotten to the point to try to build the forbidden palace or the dam. Any thoughts?

The Africa senerio - do you always start in the same spot? I always start in the north west (tried 5 times) and it's completely isolated from everyone else. Makes the early war stratogy a little tough when every one is 15 moves away.

[player1]

remove any mods you installed in your CustomAssets folder.
They are not 1.61 compatible.

[Gannet]

ahh... so no Canadians

[Tattila the Hun]

I'm wondering, if this is a bug, or should I just reinstall the game?

[Nikolai]

Seems like a good time for reinstall for me.

[MikeH]

I haven't been able to recreate the specialist moving on it's own problem as yet.

[padillah]

Does anybody know if there's going to be any XML documentation in the expansion?

Or... at all.

Tom P.

[Gannet]

well, I am completely frustrated. I can't win a battle to save my life and I can't even win on Noble setting. It's frustrating when you attack Knights with Grenadiers, 75% chance of success, and have the bonus edge and lose 4 out of every 5 times you try. I am even losing battles with full units going aginst units rated below one in strength left. I tried a full uninstall and reinstall but nothing works. Do I need to go back and put in the older patches? I am about to give up.

[sabrewolf]

gannet: why don't you post the savegame here? either use the autosaves folder or better yet, explicitly save before a battle and send when these things happen!

the patch changed something slightly in the combat model, making wounded modern units slightly stronger than full old ones. for instance a 50% wounded knight has the strength of something between 5 and 10. so fighting a full axeman is not anymore equally paired...

[CerberusIV]

Not sure if you would call this a bug or an exploit. In 1.61 marines upgrade to mech infantry. Sounds fair as a mech attacking across a river or from the sea with the 25% amphibious penalty has the same effective strength as a marine.

However, if you build marines and upgrade them to mechs they retain the amphibious promotion. OK you have to build the marines and pay to upgrade them but a transport load of amphibious mechs has a really good chance of taking a coastal city.

Moral: Build those marines while you can.