my small contribution to CTP2 - fixmod

[kaan]

sorry i thought i fixed that, the ok version is on my homepage.
kaan.subnet.dk

[Martin Gühmann]

I only know that there are some strange effects if you use an unmodded old savegame the ZERO_IGNORED wonder can be build for example, but it shouldn't appear in the list.

To give you more help I need the complete error messange.

-Martin

[Steph]

How did you solve the ocean city sprite bug?

[herwin]

I've tried it. The wonders code and wonders.txt file are still hosed up and causing crashes, but the rest seems to work fairly well. With the wonders stuff out, I can restore old games, too. I expected there to be a problem with Pop.txt, but nothing has been seen yet.

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[Martin Gühmann]

I think the problem are your old savegames they are incompartible with Fixmod. I tried on myself to implement an additional wonder and an additional advance and I had problems with old savegames. The wonder appear in the list, I couldn't discover the advance the advanced. The next effect is that if you build the first wonder of the list the game will only realize that the first wonder is build, not Arestoteles Lyeuceum, that is after fix mod the second wonder. If you built the second wonder in an unmodded save game it will become Arestoteles Lyeuceum after Fixmod.

-Martin

[kaan]

Steph: if you look at post number 1, 2 and 3 in this thread you will get your answer.

herwin:
i need to know the following:
what mods do you have installed? (all of them including version numbers)
what patch version are you using?

the problem is that i can no longer replicate your errors, especially the crash problem, i have never seen that even at my girlfriens computer, she is using a version that has that problem and she has almost played trough a whole game now without any crashes.

Martin:
you are right about the save games, they wont work.
the morale here is: if you install or upgrade FixMod be prepared to start a new game, because you cannot use your old saves.

-klaus

[Steph]

I can't understand how the sea cities work. With my games, it didn't work even before diamond age.

[Martin Gühmann]

Now here is the link about the sea colonies:
http://www.apolyton.net/forums/Forum...000988.html?23

[herwin]

Additional test results: the cure for unhappiness has a problem. It results in none of the specialists generating food/production/etc.


Hotseat and PBEM are hosed--you only need to play for a while to crash bad.


Patches: ctp2v11.zip, dale_diplomod33.zip, FixMod105.zip.


Hardware: Macintosh PowerBook G3 400 Bronze Keyboard running Virtual PC 4.0.1/simulating Windows 98 running on a Intel Pentium III/64 MB real RAM allocated of 128 available. All Mac extensions disabled except those required to interface to a DVD drive. Yes, I know it's a Mac, but it's running a hardware simulation of a standard Pentium III with standard chips and peripherals. This package is usually _less_ flaky than your consumer PC.



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[kaan]

thanks herwin

ill look into it right away and see what i can do :-)

-klaus

[Dale]

Herwin:
Have you used the fixes I posted for Diplomod 3.3? If not that version has potential bugs in it depending on the situation. If you didn't use the fixes I posted use 3.4 from the DB.

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Rommell to a sub-commander outside Tobruk: "Those Australians are in there somewhere. But where? Let's advance and wait till they shoot, then shoot back."

[herwin]

I grabbed 3.4, and I'm moving ahead with the experiment.

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[herwin]

Two 'fix' technologies popped up in the window of technologies available for research and then the game crashed.

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[kaan]

what was the year ?

did you just finish hagnia sophia ?

as im am now reviewing all the changes again it could take some time before a stable version is out.

-klaus

[Martin Gühmann]

I took a look into Fixmod 1.05 and there are also some problems with the last bugfix. For example aqueducts aren't now available for sea cities the effect is that sea cities can't reach the maximum citysize of land cities. That changes the rules of the game. The higher citysize buildings are available for for seacities. I think this bugfix should be something for a real mod, because the aqueducts must be replaced for not changing the rhules for example by a desalination plaint. But there is a second problem with the buildings. Most of the acient buildings that do something against unhappiness are disabled. For example the arena an acient varity of a stadion or the theater also modern cities have theaters. That is my critism of this bugfix in general. I think that was or is not a real bug that was fixed. In the first moment it seem unlogical that aqueducts can be build in sea cities, but aqueducts are only acient water pipes.

Another thing is that are acient buildings are prerequisites for modern units. And these prerequisites are not removed, the effect is that seacities can't build the buildings that aren't ancient ones.

-Martin