New team game

[Rhothaerill]

If you're saving every day then hopefully the problem won't come up too much, but there is still the possibility it will. I suppose we'll have to live with it and try to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Sorry if I came off as a jerk above Dacole. I haven't hosted a game (and never will since I don't leave my computer on all the time...I have a young child) so I understand there is a learning curve involved. Other than that I have no problems.

[sabrewolf]

dacole: in one of the ini files (probably warlords.ini, but maybe it's a different one for PTBS) you can set the auto-save frequency. i recommend using every 1 turn...

[proviisori]

Originally posted by Aro
Are you hosting the game now, Dacole? Great...

Btw, the game is not listed in gamespy now... Am I doing something wrong?

It's direct IP game, Aro.
It is not supposed to be listed in gamespy.

[Aro]

Originally posted by Aro
Are you hosting the game now, Dacole? Great...

Btw, the game is not listed in gamespy now... Am I doing something wrong?

Originally posted by proviisori


It's direct IP game, Aro.
It is not supposed to be listed in gamespy.

Oops... Wrong thread!

I'm involved in too many pbem and pitboss games, it seems...

[proviisori]

[dacole]

Thanks for the support guys. I'll see if I can find the .ini file and understand it. How is fatherhood treating you Roth have that adventure to look forward to (along with finding a wife...that usually helps)

[Beta]

Originally posted by Rhothaerill
Now however I have a problem that adversely affects my team. Some setting was not clicked on because the first playthrough I popped a hut and got something good. This time I popped the same hut and got something not so good. I'm a little irritated about it since it was through no fault of mine that I lost the good result. And now there is nothing anyone can do unless we replay saves until I get the same result as last time...and I'm sure no one else wants to do that.

And justice is served.

dacole - expect this frustration at the start. It took me awhile to get it running sort of smoothly as well.

However - my pitboss is saving the game automatically at the end of each turn, and I do not recall having to set that. It also saves the recovery saves after each player has played.

Did you check all the available saves??

[snoopy369]

dacole, you should look in the multiplayer autosave directory. There is a save made for each player as they play their turn (well right before it anyway).

Load one of the saves that was from the most current turn (prior to the reload of the several-turns-back autosave). It will have to be someone who hasn't joined the game since the reload. Looking at CivStats, it is probably me.

Go to \My Documents\My Games\Warlords\Saves\multi\auto\ and look for "Recovery_snoopy369" ... try loading that, it should be from the most recent save.

Unfortunately there's no way to fix the "new random seed on reload" problem, that's stuck as is.

The ini file is:
\My Documents\My Games\Warlords\Civilization IV.ini and look for a line talking about autosave frequency and autosaves kept. Autosave frequency should be 1 and autosaves kept should be a lot (500 is what I use). I think there may be (as of 2.08) a Pitboss autosave kept/frequency that is different from the standard game, also.

[Rhothaerill]

Originally posted by dacole
Thanks for the support guys. I'll see if I can find the .ini file and understand it. How is fatherhood treating you Roth have that adventure to look forward to (along with finding a wife...that usually helps)

Fatherhood is great! My son is almost two and he's a great kid. Smart as a whip. He already knows his numbers through ten, though he doesn't know them in order, and he's learning his ABC's too.

And yes, a wife does help if you want to have kids.

[Rhothaerill]

Originally posted by Beta
And justice is served.

dacole - expect this frustration at the start. It took me awhile to get it running sort of smoothly as well.

However - my pitboss is saving the game automatically at the end of each turn, and I do not recall having to set that. It also saves the recovery saves after each player has played.

Did you check all the available saves??

I blame Beta!

[snoopy369]

Bump... dacole, did you read my suggestion above?

[dacole]

just read that now not at home but I can do that when I get home today in about two hours. Thanks!

[Ephack]

Hello guys!

I'm so sorry, but I don't have internet at home since one week... And the word service still needs some improvement in Mexico...

I have no idea when I will be able to play again, but if Anydog could play for me, that would be nice!

Thanks for your comprehension and hopefully see you soon

[dacole]

ok found the save snoopy was talking about trying to load it now. Sorry for your problems Ephack never been to mexico so I can't say anything about it. What I hear from the news here in the US isn't positive usually though.

[dacole]

ok this is later so we will go with this one. Everyone check your turns please. Congrats Mr. boo on founding hinduisim!