Spencers Game part tree

[jshelr]

On my turn, the game will proceed to the finish of the turn, but then it crashes after the turn but before the save. There is a popup saying that we lost a lux trade. The game had been breaking our lux trades on us between turns frequently -- might have been every 20 turns but I did not keep track. That was a pain in the butt by itself.

[jshelr]

this is the last save I have here. if a password is needed, email or pm me please. Thanks

[notyoueither]

I will look at these when I get home this evening. It sounds related to the DoW bug we found in the demo game. If so, a work around may be possible.

[SpencerH]

Whats the DoW bug? It cant be searched on poly.

[notyoueither]

In PBEM, 20 turns after peace is made between 2 humans (enforced peace expires) the game crashes at the end of the last player's (in order) turn when end turn is done. The game pops up a message 'x declares war on y' and crashes prior to saving.

/Edit. I'll be home and able to look at your saves in about 6 hours. Maybe 6 and a half. I may need earlier ones, so it would be good if you could be around, Spencer.

[jshelr]

by the way, should we try to install 1.21 and see if that does the trick?

[notyoueither]

Not yet, 1.21 does not fix the DoW bug. That bug was found recently and should be addressed in the next patch. I would really like to know if this is the same bug, a closely related bug, or something new. Then it can be reported and fixed.

[SpencerH]

I'm glad to have your expertise . We really want to finish this game (ie I want to crush my enemies and hear the lamentations of their women) HAHAHAHAH

Unfortunately, I just cleaned my sav files so I only have the last four turns sent by jshelr and the last 7 I sent to ELI (including the one I attached here).

I never saw this bug though, since I have not been able to trade with either of the deadly duo (Korea and Zulu) for 1000 years. I was able to view the active trades with my ally though, the powerful AI romans.

[notyoueither]

Spencer, do you have Delmar of the Monguls 1650?

[notyoueither]

My email is my user name @hotmail.com

[Eli]

NYE : I sent it to you.

[SpencerH]

delmar 1650 on its way to that email

[jshelr]

We got this back from the main office:

Thanks,
I think we may have already fixed this in the next patch. A similar thing happened in the multi-site demo game and that bug has been fixed.
Either way, Pat is looking into it and there should be a fix for this in the next patch. Don't ask because I don't know when it will be released
;-)

Sincerely,

Barry Caudill
QA Manager
Firaxis Games
bcaudill@firaxis.com

[jshelr]

I'm sort of encouraged that ultimately we may be able to finish this game. Eli and I have a couple of ideas waiting to happen that could make it pretty interesting.

Stay in touch, even if we don't get rolling right away.

[notyoueither]

Well, this is not good. There is a problem unlike what I have seen before. Trying to access trade info for the Koreans with the Zulu's crashes the game in 1660 and 1650. I am willing to keep looking at earlier saves if you wish, to try to find one which gets past the 1660 crash point. It might also help Firaxis fix it so that this bug is gone from the next patch.

Can we try 1640?