Event to make my wife my friend - game crashed

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For the first time on my current pc the game decided to crash. Of course I hadn't saved my game for quite a while since I had been very very busy. Lots of things happened many of them good. All this is lost now

I had a crusade going. My large army which is now far from home and still rather far from its target will have lost its morale, right? I loaded a saved game and that makes morale disappear? The green bar under a unit is that the morale?

Most important: How do I force the event "You have fallen in love with your wife"? I got it fair and square but now I don't get it grrr.

I also lost 2 very good tech advances. Instead the game now gives me 5 tech advances. I'd rather not have those and instead stick with the original 2. Can I cheat my way to specific tech advances in specific provinces?

 

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Arghh now all things bad happen GRRRR. My crusade target suddenly changes ownership from being a small easy to reach enemy to be a large strong not easy to reach enemy Oh and I also got a new rival plus my 2 sons decided to declare war on eachother....and the queen doesn't get pregnant like she did before. If the game hadn't crashed everything would have been near perfect. Go ahead and call me a cry baby, but I'm pissed now. It hits harder because I also play Fallout 3 which crashes quite often. I'm tired of games crashing.

 

[Tjuk]

Consider it as one of the 'What if...'s of history. What if my realm hadn't gone to hell in a handbasket? Now you know.

But seriously, why not use the auto save function?

 

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First of all I'm used to other games where autosave makes them unstable. Second I don't want the game to save always. Sometimes things will happen where I decide not to save. Is there a quicksave function? I can't remember?

 

[Landwalker]

First of all I'm used to other games where autosave makes them unstable.]
Well that at least is obviously no longer a concern, huh?

Second I don't want the game to save always. Sometimes things will happen where I decide not to save. Is there a quicksave function? I can't remember?

I'm not sure if there's a quicksave (I suspect not), but you can set the autosave feature to a pretty wide range of options: I think they're yearly, every three years, every five years, and every ten years, or something like that. The game also keeps the two most recent autosaves, so if something happened that made you frown and then the game autosaved, you can go back to the previous autosave and everything will be sunshine and ponies.

In any case, it's not a bad idea to have a backup for just those sorts of situations. And you don't have to load them, of course, "for those things that happen where you decide not to save." They're just a safety net. You know, for when the game crashes.