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digger760
05-12-2003, 10:22
Does anybody have any suggestions with the bug we are having in the nh PBEM. You DDPP guys surely must know a few secrets.

here is the link to the nh thread:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=1411877#post1411877
Skyfish
05-12-2003, 10:43
Tried reading the thread but I dont really understand who is at war with who and everything...too lazy to read all the pages.

What would help would be looking at some saves from one FULL turn before the crash happens, the save of when it happens and the admin password.
digger760
05-12-2003, 11:01
nobody is at war, and as far as i know nobody declared war. Its NH's game so i dont know the admin password. The game crashed at the end of Sashaddins turn, who is the last player of the full turn. We replayed to whole turn again but the same thing occurs.

I know the DDPP players had a few bugs and that maybe they could mention here what they were and how they got around it.
Kemal
05-12-2003, 11:33
Could it be that there is a luxury and/or resource trade between the two nations in connection with the peace treaty, either made via renegoatiating peace or after an earlier war? I haven't tested this, but could it be that the severance of the trade route, for example due to a barbarian galley, would lead to the deal and thus the accompanying peace treaty to be broken?

Indeed there were problems with ddpp, pp couldn't access the F1-screen anymore, but IIRC this was due to version compatibility problems (1.27/1.21), not exactly sure on how that was fixed though.
Skyfish
05-12-2003, 11:42
It was fixed by PP downgrading to 1.21.

So you should first make sure everyone is playing on the same version. Seems games that were started long agon (i.e going from 1.14 to 1.21 to 1.27) can actually NOT take it. The solution is to stay on 1.21, dont ask me why but it could help.
ProPain
05-12-2003, 11:52
posted in the CFC thread. I downgraded from 1.27 to 1.21 and then everything worked fine again.
digger760
11-12-2003, 10:07
I'm not sure if NH has (remembers) the admin password for the game. Maybe some clever cookies in here know how to find it in the sav file. If so then i'll post the sav file in here and somebody might be able to have a look at it.
anarres
11-12-2003, 10:36
Yeah, Meli worked out how to extract admin passwords....
digger760
11-12-2003, 10:45
Ok well here is the turn that the error occurs.

It happens at the end of Sashaddins turn, who is the last player

Download Attachment: icon_paperclip.gif NH1_AD0330toDigger.SAV (http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/digger760/20031211104411_NH1_AD0330toDigger.SAV)
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anarres
11-12-2003, 10:47
Maybe you should email him as he may not see the save here. :)
Melifluous
11-12-2003, 13:08
quote:Originally posted by anarres

Maybe you should email him as he may not see the save here. :)


Thats very true... ;)

Recieved the email.
Admin password passed onto SkyFish, our resident MP doctor [:p]

Melifluous
Skyfish
11-12-2003, 13:49
Solved :D

At least for me on my computer, if the problem occurs again then its a version incompatibility.
It was an F4 peace bug, I cancelled the existing peace deal. They are now at peace for 20 turns but there is no crash
I tested thorough all players' turns.

Maybe the bug will appear again but at least you can now go on playing.
WildFire
11-12-2003, 21:34
Play with 1.21?

Guess I gotta download that again.
Skyfish
12-12-2003, 07:28
Are you drunk ?
Where did you read you had to do that ? No need for that at all man...
digger760
12-12-2003, 09:29
yah...got 340AD today so we are back in action

special thanks to Mel [:o] and Skyfish [worship]