Should we Restart the game?

[Dauphin]

What FP failed to mention was that our team started with 2 different luxuries (wines and incense) and four cattle within the 21 tile city radius, and that our city is adjacent to a river that serpents around such that over half the city tiles have a river trade bonus.

We also popped a hut when we built our city, it gave us a second settler.

Other than that we have a really crap start.

[Beta]

Yes.

[FrustratedPoet]

/me silences Big Mouth Crunch with a gun he borrowed from the NRA

[Panzer32]

ok, restart...

now was this a loading bug or was it me?

If it was me please someone tell me how to get it in monarch!!

[Panzer32]

oh, just so everyone knows:

They will be the same starting positions if we restart. I'm not making another map for you guys.

[BigFree]

Originally posted by DaveMcW
BigFree, you can make sure the difficulty levels stick by going to Player Properties and changing difficulty from "Any" to "Monarch".

Panzer32 started the game for us. He sent me the save file, (1.14 because it is not possible to do in 1.21), right after the game begun. He saved the game and sent it to me. So, there's no settings for me to fool with. When I loaded the game, it was already set to Chieftain, no mistakes from anyone on reloading from the wrong menu. If the mistake is caused by his saving and my loading from mid-turn, then I will have him play our turn and send it to Python from there.

[Master Zen]

Originally posted by BigFree


Panzer32 started the game for us. He sent me the save file, (1.14 because it is not possible to do in 1.21), right after the game begun. He saved the game and sent it to me. So, there's no settings for me to fool with. When I loaded the game, it was already set to Chieftain, no mistakes from anyone on reloading from the wrong menu. If the mistake is caused by his saving and my loading from mid-turn, then I will have him play our turn and send it to Python from there.

Well then THAT's the problem! Didn't anyone know about the saving in mid-game bugs in 1.14?

I think Sunshine should let Panzer32 play its turn so that this corrects itself and the game can start in 1.21.

[Kloreep]

But... if it's being started in 1.14... I thought there was a bug that all games started with 1.14 are chieftain. I think you have to use 1.04 to start the game (1.21 probably works too, though I'm not sure; if it does, the game can be 1.21 from the start if Panzer plays Sunshine's turn for them).

[BigFree]

Since this poll is heavily in favor of re-starting, I'm asking Panzer32 to play Sunshines first turn, in 1.21 and then send it on to Python.

Panzer32 can come by our forums to see how we played it originally. He can play it in the exact same way. Or he can contact me on IRC.

[Master Zen]

wait!!!

I just re-tested a PBEM in the spanish forum which started with the same problem. The problem is precisely what DaveMcW said: if you manually change the difficulty in the Player Properties screen to "Monarch" for each player, the game works correctly. Tested, and true

That means Sunshine can still play its first turn as long as Panzer re-edits the scenario with this. Of course, just in case, Sunshine should make sure it loads as Monarch.

[Panzer32]

Originally posted by Master Zen
wait!!!

I just re-tested a PBEM in the spanish forum which started with the same problem. The problem is precisely what DaveMcW said: if you manually change the difficulty in the Player Properties screen to "Monarch" for each player, the game works correctly. Tested, and true

That means Sunshine can still play its first turn as long as Panzer re-edits the scenario with this. Of course, just in case, Sunshine should make sure it loads as Monarch.

This was done on the original scenario

I'm just as happy to play Sunshine's turn... it isn't too much trouble. Its just the first turn for gosh sakes!!

[FrustratedPoet]

Shall I still bother finishing the Cake or Death turn? It seems certain that we're gonna start over, I think I should just wait for the second game to come around.

[BigFree]

Yes, you should just wait. I was hoping Panzer32 would have sent Python the turn by now...

[Master Zen]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
Shall I still bother finishing the Cake or Death turn? It seems certain that we're gonna start over, I think I should just wait for the second game to come around.

Our team sent you the save despite knowing that the game was likely to restart. We did it so you guys could plan your turn so that when the "good" save comes by, you can play it quckly. Thus, I see no problem with passing the save at least for this turn just so that the new game's first turn goes by quickly.

[Panzer32]

ok, what I'm doing is this:

To avoid any difficulty level problems in the future, I modded each difficulty level to equal monarch. There, that should hold 'em.

I'm inputting all the civ customization now and turn will be sent to Monty Python shortly.