Who Has the Game Save? Part II

[vondrack]

Hmmm, Trip looking into the problem may be a very good idea. Do all teams post complete logs of their actions ingame? If yes, he could take our last save (that worked) and subsequently play - "on behalf" of other teams - all moves, using the "turnlogs" in private forums... if he's able to play all the way through, including our current turn, we'd know that just replaying the last round solves the problem.

Should not take long... Trip, could you do that for us, please?

[asleepathewheel]

Maybe someone outside of the game, or trip, or even someone in the game could look at saves and work backwards a few turns using the load save bug to see if we can pin down when exactly something happened.

[vondrack]

This is for the first time I have run into troubles with my PBEM games. I have rebooted every time before making a new attempt, to make sure there was no garbage in the memory and whatnot.

I am still able to (re)play the previous turn (590BC), but not this one (570BC). I'll post the save I got from Beta in our forum and ask other Legos to try playing the turn.

But either way, Beta, replay the turn, please, and resend the savegame. There must be something wrong with the one I got this morning.

[Hot_Enamel]

It has happened to me a couple of times....especially using hotmail email accounts.

Another time....all I had to do was a PC reboot, and civ worked again...but I am sure you have tried that.

Does it do the same thing with other PBEM games ? Misfits for example ?

Regs

[Shiber]

Vondrack, has any of Lego's other players tried to play the turn? Perhaps your installation simply got corrupted, somehow.
Of course it is more likely that the save got corrupted on the way from Beta, but IMHO we should also cover that possibility.

[Hot Mustard]

Perhaps a Vox or GS wizard cast Time Stop?

Oops, wrong game.

[vondrack]

Originally posted by BetaHound
vondrack - do you want me to replay and resend?

Guys, I have no idea what else to try... I had to go AFK for about two hours, but after coming back I tried really hard to overcome the problem - I tried skipping every single one of the actions planned by Lego for this turn... none was the cause. Eventually (yes, I know, it would have been better to start with that), I simply loaded the save received from Vox and immediately hit End Turn. Same result all the time - GPF, GPF, GPF...

Beta, be so kind, try replaying your turn, and send it to me again (perhaps zip it this time, to add at least the basic CRC check).

Otherwise, I have no idea what to do, as we are virtually unable to get through this turn in ANY way.

[Beta]

vondrack - do you want me to replay and resend?

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Will be away for approx 36 hours so one of the alternates from GoW needs to play the save.

[nbarclay]

Vontrack, have you tried any experiments along the lines of just hitting the space bar for every unit before ending the turn? Obviously, a turn played that way would not be suitable to send on, but experimenting along those lines might help pin down whether the problem has to do with something you did during the turn.

[asleepathewheel]

uh oh. thats not good. not good at all.

Maybe it was corrupted when it was emailed to you?

[vondrack]

I am sorry to report that I am having a major problem playing the Lego turn - every time I hit the end turn button, the game crashes ungracefully. I have tried about five or six times, no success. I will keep trying to figure out what the problem is, but I have no idea how long it will take - sorry for that.

In the meantime, does anyone know if there are any well-known crash causing situations?

[Theseus]

Où est le Save?

Le Save est sur la branche.

[Hot Mustard]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb
Sent to Togas, oliverfa, and Dejon a couple of days ago.

It says "Sent: Tue 4/29/2003 12:08 PM". That's EST.

[BigFree]

You can't be more creative than that? Come on, I'll give you one more try.