Phantom Recorded Game Problem

[albiedamned]

I played a glorious game as the Chinese last night, where I won by territory sometime in the Information Age. I went to watch the recorded game playback today. It started out the same, but somewhere roughly around the 10-15 minute mark (I don't remember the exact time because I didn't realize the problem right away), it veered off into an "alternative history". Basically it appeared that the recorded game no longer acknowledged most of what I did in the actual game. My resources kept piling up, and it showed me creating citizens and caravans, but that was about it. It never showed me build any buildings or research anything. It did however show enemy attacks into my territory that never actually happened. I watched until around the 30 minute mark, by which time in the real game I was kicking butt. In the recorded game I had thousands of each resource piled up, 15 or so idle citizens, and I was in last place in score. Has anyone else noticed this problem?

[Helmar_10]

Yes I noticed the same problem. Did you solve it?

[Jaybe]

It is documented that if you save the game while you are in battle it will screw up the recorded game. How much combat is a "battle" I do not know. It IS dang inconvenient that later parts of the game is constantly embroiled in such a state.

From the Read Me:

Replay of saved games may not function: If a Rise of Nations game is saved in the middle of a battle, and the player quits and subsequently tries to view a replay of that game, the replay function may not work. To avoid this issue, do not save games to be played back when battles are occurring.

I assume that is the cause of any skewered recordings I have had in the past.