Saved Game Thread

[vondrack]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
There have been numerous reports, that loading a game in SP mode can reveal the position of your predecessor. I have it seen myself in one of my PBEM games. I lazily loaded the game in SP mode and - voila - there was the capital of Conqueror and I saw his minimap. Mind you that it was not the wrong save, and when I loaded it in MP mode again, I saw nothing what I was not supposed to see.

Some people may see it otherwise, but this kind of "espionage" spoils the game a lot, at least for me.

Well, it has happened to me only once (and I was so shocked to find myself unintentionally "cheating" that I shut the game completely as fast as I was able to). But from what I have been able to realize, the problem was if you had loaded a game before. Out of my experience (made some simple tests with a fake PBEM game later), the first savegame loaded through the "SP" Load Game (in Main Menu) loads just fine. If you try to reload (it does not matter whether through the Main Menu "SP" Load Game or from within a running game (Ctrl+L or something like that), you end up cheating. That's why I always relaunch Civ3 before loading saves coming from LI now.

EDIT: Oops, sorry, forgot this was the Save Game thread...

[Arnelos]

I ran into this bug as well. Thankfully, all I saw before quickly closing the game was a starting position for a player we ALREADY had traded minimaps with.

Yes, it's a known bug. You can avoid it by NOT RELOADING THE SAVEGAME when you've already loaded it one time. To avoid the bug, you have to EXIT the game before reloading that save again. That's annoying, but it prevents you from seeing stuff you shouldn't see.

[Jon Shafer]

Er... anyways...

Sent to Gegogand...

[Jack_www]

turn played and sent to GS

[Harovan]

File sent to Neu Demogyptica.

[Borc]

2710 BC sent

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Turn sent to Togas, Arnelos and Dejon.

[Hot Mustard]

2710BC Save sent to Vox (Eli and Dissident)

Yes, the right one this time.

[Eli]

Turn received. We need to discuss some issues before playing it.

[Dis]

turn sent

[Jon Shafer]

Sent to Zegozand.

[Jack_www]

Turn played and sent to GS.

[Harovan]

Turn sent to Neu Demogyptica. Time was 2:22pm GMT.

[Borc]

turn sent 2670 BC

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Turn sent to Togas, Arnelos and Dejon.