Who Has the Game Save?

[Harovan]

My proposal for a common rule to play a turn:

• Start the game
• Hit Multiplayer
• Make sure, Location is set to Local games and not to Internet.
• Hit Host
• Make sure, the Game rules are standard. At the left side, all options shall be checked, at the right side only Preserve Random Seed and Allow Cultural Conversions. Especially make sure, that Accelerated Production is not set.
• Set Game Type to Play By Email.
• Set Game Mode to Load Game.
• Choose the game to load in the dialogbox.
• Hit Launch.
• Enter your team password.
• Play the turn. It is not allowed to save and reload during the turn, due to the production bug.
• Save the game after the Save and Exit dialog shows up.
• The file name shall be the name the game proposes by default.
• Send the turn to your successor.
• Post "File sent" in the Saved Game Thread

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph
My proposal for a common rule to play a turn:

• Start the game
• Hit Multiplayer
• Make sure, Location is set to Local games and not to Internet.
• Hit Host
• Make sure, the Game rules are standard. At the left side, all options shall be checked, at the right side only Preserve Random Seed and Allow Cultural Conversions. Especially make sure, that Accelerated Production is not set.
• Set Game Type to Play By Email.
• Set Game Mode to Load Game.
• Choose the game to load in the dialogbox.
• Hit Launch.
• Enter your team password.
• Play the turn. It is not allowed to save and reload during the turn, due to the production bug.
• Save the game after the Save and Exit dialog shows up.
• The file name shall be the name the game proposes by default.
• Send the turn to your successor.
• Post "File sent" in the Saved Game Thread

Of course this is the way I do it anyway except for the "File Sent" part. I guess I can work at actually typing "File Sent" and not "Sent to Roleplay" or some other variation.

>Sigh< The sacrifices we must sometimes make in the spirit of compromise.

[Beta]

Question - can Civ3 be running, or do you need a fresh start for hassle-free play?

If yes to the fresh start - that should be specified. It says 'start game' above, but perhaps we need the comment - "if running civ3, shut down and restart."

If not - then great.

Vondrack mentioned it earlier, but I believe his reference was to loading it via SP.

[Harovan]

If loading through Multiplayer it doesn't matter if the game was running before.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

So who has the game save now? As Arnelos was the last one to post in the "Saved Game" thread that would indicate that Roleplay has forwarded the save last and Vox is sitting on the current save.

[Harovan]

No. Linux victa (or what was the name again?) is sitting on it.

[Spiffor]

Great sig Sir Ralph (I just noticed it)

[Jon Shafer]

Just for the record, everyone be careful if you see our team name in the save file... For some reason, on the password-asking screen, it will always show part of our map for some reason... I start up PTW, go to load game, and voila. There it is. :\

[Harovan]

That is why games should be load from the Multiplayer menu only. See the proposed procedure above. I would suggest to make this a rule in this PTW DG. Even if it seems difficult, but it prevents everyone from unintended "cheating".

[vondrack]

Originally posted by Trip
Just for the record, everyone be careful if you see our team name in the save file... For some reason, on the password-asking screen, it will always show part of our map for some reason... I start up PTW, go to load game, and voila. There it is. :\

I have loaded a savegame from you & BFM many times using Main Menu - Load Game of a freshly launched (this is important) Civ3 and never saw a bit of your land (always just a black screen and the password prompt). The only problem is reloading or loading into a Civ3 that is not freshly launched.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by Trip
Er... anyways...

Sent to Gegogand...

And the glorious and infinitely wise Trip has gotten the "Saved Game" thread back on track.

Notice I didn't say literate or eloquent, what with words like "Gegoland"...........

[Jon Shafer]

What can I say, it's a long-running theme.

Ralph, luckily that's the only problem that my team has encountered, so there's really nothing to be worried about by loading through the main menu...

[alva]

You do know, if you make just one duplicate, I will be on your case

[Jack_www]

Well i just got home and will be playing the Legoland turn shortly. Just give me a little time.

[Dis]

loading through the main menu. Boy what an issue. I have never had a problem, but I believe they can occur. In the future I will use the multiplayer method above.

I posted this in the PBEM forum. But the method above will work correctly. Again to point out, make sure accel. production is off. And make sure there are no other whacky game rules checked before you load the game. You should all know what the game rules are by now.

I know it's a pain in the arse. But it doesn't take that much longer. We should all do this.

And BTW guys if you don't know this. Use alt-tab to minimize civ3. Push the printscreen key first. what I do is push printscreen and paste it on MS paintbrush (I have to convert it to jpg if I want to send e-mails- because bmp's are so large). After I save that, I bring civ3 up again, then move the world screen around as appropiate, and then I press the printscreen key again. And paste again. Rinse and repeat etc.

There really should be no reason to reload if you minimize civ3 and paste the screenshots. This could avoid any accidental complications in the future.