Who Has the Game Save? Part II

[Tiberius]

Trip, it's time to come back and play PtWDG

Pleeeeease

[Shiber]

These messages were posted in the GS private forum, and I thought that they might be of some use. It might give us a clue of what went wrong faster than it would take to redo a full turn.

Originally posted by notyoueither
Don't worry yet, atw. The problem is most likely very recent. If not, it is going to be a bugger to find. The 'best' way to get past it, if it was not very recent, would be to start with our last turn, open- do nothing- end turn and move on to the next team, same thing- end turn and move on to the next team, same thing... until we see if we can get by the Lego turn. If that doesn't work, then one turn earlier, same procedure...

Originally posted by Shiber
NYE, what you're proposing can be done by Trip rather quickly, if he's given all the passwords.

[vondrack]

Now it's actually four Legos (me, Sharpe, quantum_mechani, and Tiberius) failing the same way. The savegame must be corrupted in some way. I have replayed our last working turn (590BC) and sent the save to GS again.

Let's do the full 570BC round replay, please - and keep our fingers crossed!

[Tiberius]

There are already 4 (and not 3; I didn't count Vondrack first ) of us (from Lego) who tried to play the save without succes. Even when you just hit "end turn" without doing anything, it crashes. It must be something on Beta's machine (and hopefully not something worse than that).

Edit: I tried loading it both ways: from the main menu and from the MP menu. Same result.

[asleepathewheel]

Thats not good news

Perhaps we shoud email Firaxis the save and password and let them try to diagnose the problem. Since Soren is a part of GS... but I don't know how we could get their attention on a saturday.

[vondrack]

Originally posted by BetaHound
570bc save replayed and resent. I'm using 1.14f. I reloaded PTW and patched it this week - so there have been some changes to my machine. But it appears to be working just fine.

Resent savegame received, still the same problem.

Another member of my team tried to play the turn - same problem.

Beta, could another member of your team play (just) this most recent turn? Just to rule out the possibility of your setup change messing things...? I have been using the same setup for months, no changes on my side.

[asleepathewheel]

/me raises feet and holds breath while crossing a bridge...

[Shiber]

/me crosses rivers...

[alva]

/me crosses fingers...

[Beta]

570bc save replayed and resent. I'm using 1.14f. I reloaded PTW and patched it this week - so there have been some changes to my machine. But it appears to be working just fine.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
However, since everything was working fine last turn whatever the problem is has only appeared very recently.

hopefully, but I think I've had to go back a few saves before in my games to get one that wasn't corrupted. Though that was an earlier version of Civ3.

[FrustratedPoet]

With preserve random seed turned on if you do everything in the same order you will get the same results. IIRC we replayed out GL-creation turn after we'd finished so we could get a screenshot of Ramses.

It would be VERY hard to go back more than one or two turns and still do everything in exactly the same order, though.

However, since everything was working fine last turn whatever the problem is has only appeared very recently.

[asleepathewheel]

Is everybody using the same version of the game? I don't know if you could even load the game, but...

Hopefully Beta can resend and it will be ok. If its not, I'm not sure how many turns we could feasibly go back, due to the labor and complexity of going back in time. One turn yes. Two turns, well, then actions start to change. Luckily nothing major has really even happened on the Vox-GS front, but still, a cat that hit now misses, what do you do?

It would be unacceptable to me to have to go back to pre-ramses for GS. I think that was three or four turns ago. That would ruin the game for me.

[vondrack]

Then let's start with Beta/Vox replaying their turn and emailing again. If that does not help, we will have to replay the whole round... and just pray it helps.

The savegame is available in the Lego forum, but most everybody but me seems to be gone for the weekend...

No responses yet.

[FrustratedPoet]

GS don't post exact turnlogs I'm afraid.