Conquests Bug Thread (post BETA 1.12-patch)

[SewerStarFish]

lethe: Whoops, my bad. I hadn't noticed the change. Sorry.

[Inverse Icarus]

i found a labeling error.

i'm in a PBEM of the Age of Discovery Scenario, and I am playing all the native races.







you can download the savehere, but you need my password to open it.

email me (moskij TA rpi TOD edu) if you want it.

[BigFree]

Originally posted by MouseNightshirt
I noticed this yeserday.

I had a large stack of about 10 MAs sitting outside a Hittite City. I used the "Move units in stack" button and put it into the city. After 3 attacks, my tanks stopped attacking, but the units inside continued to defend against invisible, non-existent attacking foes, and lost without me losing any health. I repeated this with weaker units, same thing happened. Quite a bad exploit here.

I don't think it's an exploit just a visual bug. The game just did not show you your units that were attacking. The animation for the attack was cut out for some reason which is a bug. Check your units afterward and tell me how many movement points on each there were. Also check to see how many defenders were in the city to begin with.

[Rommel2D]

Originally posted by Rommel2D
My first turn loading a PBEM game under 1.12, I was shown the end of the turn of the previous player. After playing my turn, I was taken to the next player's starting location. No passwords were requested. After reloading, everything worked as it is supposed to, although the game is now ruined.

The game was started with 1.12 supposedly, by a referee. He set passwords for us and changed the setup so that we all start in 4000BC and play the full game. The player before me (the 2nd) could not load the game with the 1.12 patch installed, so he played his turn unpatched.

I've stumbled across this a few times since the tW epidemic started over a year ago, but only just now realized it isn't a random occurance. [edit: explanation deleted]

This huge bug/exploit has made it past 40-some patch revisions, any chance of taking care of it soon?

[Rommel2D]

Just grabbed one of the other C3C tournament games from the turn thread and am able to cycle right through everybody's turn like a hotseat game. :-(

Passwords are completely useless...

[smellymummy]

well now that everyone knows how ...

[Rommel2D]

Well, I deleted it out of my post, but...

If anyone wants to intentionally cheat at PBEM there are other, more direct major exploits. This one sucks because it comes up unintentionally every now and then. If any conscientious players want to know how to avoid this bug, PM me.

[Niessuh]

Originally posted by Uber KruX
i found a labeling error.

i'm in a PBEM of the Age of Discovery Scenario, and I am playing all the native races.
email me (moskij TA rpi TOD edu) if you want it.

It happens at the Age of D. conquest PBEM that we are playing at the spanish forum. The victory points screen looks messy too

[Explorer7]

Capture the Princess

I tried a Capture the Princess game in version 1.0 a few days ago and I was not able to "pick up" the princess to take back to my capital for any points. I installed 1.15 tonight and it still is not working. Is this feature suppose to work? If it is suppose to work any idea why it isn't for me?

[Aqualung71]

I've seen this exploit mentioned before but I can't recall where, and I'm not sure if it's supposed to have been fixed yet so I'll mention it again.

Playing last night I offered the Russians 300gpt in return for 5,500 gold, and they accepted, which would give me the opportunity to take the cash then declare war and nullify the gpt deal (I didn't do the deal, of course).

This should be fixed.

[Kloreep]

Originally posted by Thriller
I've seen this exploit mentioned before but I can't recall where, and I'm not sure if it's supposed to have been fixed yet so I'll mention it again.

Playing last night I offered the Russians 300gpt in return for 5,500 gold, and they accepted, which would give me the opportunity to take the cash then declare war and nullify the gpt deal (I didn't do the deal, of course).

This should be fixed.

You can always do this once, and perhaps it is too powerful if you get a big enough deal like that 5,500 gold deal.

However, once you do it, your international rep will be ruined, and no AI will accept GPT from you again, even with something else. (In fact, if you do this, try setting up a deal that will be acceptable to the AI, then adding gpt on your side of the deal; despite the fact you're promising more, the AI will go from acceptance to refusal.)

So, this is not a bug unless you're able to do it twice in one game.

[Aqualung71]

Originally posted by Kloreep

So, this is not a bug unless you're able to do it twice in one game.

Of course it's a bug.! It's an out and out exploit - free cash. Some players warmonger so much they don't care about reputation (probably most of us from time to time). It should not be possible.

Anyway, it's such a ludicrous cheat that I'm sure most players would never do it (yeh, right)

[vmxa1]

Man if the AI has 5K to lend me, I got big problems.

[Aqualung71]

Originally posted by vmxa1
Man if the AI has 5K to lend me, I got big problems.

Errr, at the time Russia had about 43,000 in the bank. Don't ask me how!

Which means things do not bode well for me if it gets to a SS build!

[player1]

Smells like someone is playing v1.00