Colonists Not In Save File?

[JohnMK]

They don't appear to be. We first noticed this in multiplayer, haven't tried single player. You can waste a lot of money by sending colonists, then saving, then reloading. At least in our MP games, France gets bit by this all the time. Ask Maur13.

Correction: they save, but upon reload they don't actually do anything if they're successful. No population added.

 

[sirbruce]

Are you sure? Maybe it's a MP bug but I think if it happened in single-player I would have noticed it before.

Bruce

 

[unmerged(2833)]

No, it is MP bug. Basically, colonist doesn';t exist. i mean, graphic is there, but wehn they arrive, they just dissapper without any effect whatsoever. No failure, no succes, nothing.

we have pleyty of savefiles for this.

sorry for beign uncompregensible. we jsut infished 15 hours mp game

 

[AndrewT]

15 hours? Does that mean I can close that thread that says MP is unplayable?

 

[JohnMK]

Yes, and because of frequent crashes, I think, honestly, we had to reload about 20 times. About two-thirds of those times, it was due to the chat bug.

 

[Chopain]

Im curious to know while I was in the game how do I find out what caused the crash? Did the person just say he tried to chat when he ctd or is there another way of finding out?

 

[Jens Z]

I can confirm the problems with colonists in MP (lan, NA 1.05).

 

[JohnMK]

I'd also like confirmation for my aggregate MP bug thread.

 

[AndrewT]

Is the game loaded from the save taken on the host machine? It looks like you must load that save file for the game to be completely restored.

 

[unmerged(2833)]

Originally posted by AndrewT
Is the game loaded from the save taken on the host machine? It looks like you must load that save file for the game to be completely restored.

It doesn't matter, they also have no effect (except the fact you can't send another colonists there while the phantom one is still on it's way) when host loads his savegame.

 

[unmerged(6522)]

In single player, they are. After reload, they do their job properly.

 

[unmerged(2833)]

Originally posted by Tarantin
In single player, they are. After reload, they do their job properly.

Nobody complained about SP games... we only meant MP ones (yes, i know there should be "MP" in thread title, sorry).

We actually don't know if this bug even happen to host. Given other things (like bugs in hapenned events), there might be the case that host colonists are saved properly.

 

[unmerged(6522)]

Originally posted by JohnMK
They don't appear to be. We first noticed this in multiplayer, haven't tried single player. You can waste a lot of money by sending colonists, then saving, then reloading. At least in our MP games, France gets bit by this all the time. Ask Maur13.

Correction: they save, but upon reload they don't actually do anything if they're successful. No population added.

I just dissolved the doubt above in italics.

 

[unmerged(2833)]

Re: Re: Colonists Not In Save File?

Originally posted by Tarantin


I just dissolved the doubt above in italics.

Ah, sorry. Obviously, they do save in SP games.

Another question is if they appear in previously-MP games played in SP mode.

 

[JohnMK]

Maur13 come back to us . . . . why have you left the ICQ network?

 

[kurtbrian]

Originally posted by JohnMK
Maur13 come back to us . . . . why have you left the ICQ network?

a maur13 bug?!?!

how strange!