Forced Victory Conditions Game #1

[FlameFlash]

nope... saved it where I always do... to my desktop.

[smhfan86]

Odd, i've played turns from people who save on their desktops too, and i usually have to browse to get back to the default save directory, but i never got the disk error from that.

Shadow, did you accidently load SMAC, rather than SMACX? I do that a lot myself.

[shadowlord3]

I loaded both. Loaded smacx first and got the error message, didnt bother to look at it beacuase I play in several smac games and I constantly load smcax by accident. When it didnt work for smac I took a minute or two to think it through. This has to be a smacx game so I loaded smacx again and again a terran.exe error "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into the drive \Device\Harddisk\DR1." I have seen several terran.exe messages before but have not seen \harddisk\dr1 before.

SL3

[shadowlord3]

Sorry it is a terranx.exe error and not a terran.exe error.

[FlameFlash]

and it continues to be rather odd... I'll try resending (and replaying) when I get home if you're still having problems by then... that way, at least, we'll see if it was on my end or not.

I'll try a couple of different combinations of things, actually...

[smhfan86]

odd indeed. try saving the game to the default smac save directory.

the game file remembers from where the save last took place.

[FlameFlash]

Even with a Mac?

This is the first cross-platform game that's ever screwed up for me that I've played in. Every other one has worked perfectly (minus when somebody edited something on their program on their end so they get the standard Windows open dialogue rather than the in-game one.)

[smhfan86]

you're using a mac?

well, since it's the first one that's messed up, that's odd.

shadow, is this before or after you enter your password?

does the error pop up right away after you try to load the file?

[FlameFlash]

Yeah... I've always used a Mac here. Never had a problem with CtP nor SMAC/SMAX once I got all the proper patches, etc.

[shadowlord3]

Before the password. It pops up right away and the only thing I can do is ctrl/alt/del end task. My computer at home will be a good test. If it doesnt work at home than Flame will need to try a few things on his end. If it works at home than it has to be the crack.exe that I'm using at work.

SL3

[FlameFlash]

*nods*

I'll await for what happens when you get home... (going home myself in about 45 min.)

[shadowlord3]

Good news is that I was able to open the save file and play both turns. I guess I wont be playing from work until I can figure out what the problem is. However I'm going to hold onto the turn for now because I have a question. I do not have any starting techs for either faction Gaians or Cult. I know the Cult should have Cent Eco and Soc Pysch and I believe the Gaians should have cent eco. Can we get H0bbes to add the starting techs and restart the game.

SL3

[smhfan86]

interesting. i'll email hobbes about the problem.

[H0bbes]

Sorry about that. I have written myself a little checklist to make sure I don't forget any steps in the future. New turn has been resent to Flameflash.

Turn order is Flameflash to Shadowlord3 to SMH.

Same passwords as the first turn.

Hope everything is OK now.

Hobbes

[shadowlord3]

Thanks H0bbes that was quick.

SL3