Hi fellow builders !
In the last 24 hours I've come across two cases when the simple fact of updating a building leaded to broken saves.
I first updated my first released building. I mad no geometry change but just revised the lod textures and the color variations (so that the broken system will now always show a similar color).
After updating I could not open a single save when the building was present.
I spent 4 goddamn hours reverting to the old version, reupdating, reupdating agan... until it seemed to be working again.
I can tell you that until it was ok again I was feeling quite bad. I imagined the 40000 people using my tower losing their saves (I've noticed it on loads and loads of city journals). I felt guilty, and actually I shouldn't have because I did nothing wrong.
A few hours later, I told a fellow builder that he forgot to update the lod on one of his buildings... he did it and guess what ??? Yeah... I can't seem to open any of my save where his building is.
There is something completely broken here. The assets were actually just the same, just updated content. How comes the game causes trouble then ??? It imply makes no sense at all.
Builders, take good care that everything work after an update, test if you can open a save with your asset in it, and if you can't try reupdating it until it works again.
And avoid updating if not necessary until this is fixed.
In the last 24 hours I've come across two cases when the simple fact of updating a building leaded to broken saves.
I first updated my first released building. I mad no geometry change but just revised the lod textures and the color variations (so that the broken system will now always show a similar color).
After updating I could not open a single save when the building was present.
I spent 4 goddamn hours reverting to the old version, reupdating, reupdating agan... until it seemed to be working again.
I can tell you that until it was ok again I was feeling quite bad. I imagined the 40000 people using my tower losing their saves (I've noticed it on loads and loads of city journals). I felt guilty, and actually I shouldn't have because I did nothing wrong.
A few hours later, I told a fellow builder that he forgot to update the lod on one of his buildings... he did it and guess what ??? Yeah... I can't seem to open any of my save where his building is.
There is something completely broken here. The assets were actually just the same, just updated content. How comes the game causes trouble then ??? It imply makes no sense at all.
Builders, take good care that everything work after an update, test if you can open a save with your asset in it, and if you can't try reupdating it until it works again.
And avoid updating if not necessary until this is fixed.
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We basically have to take the same care as engineers who build bridges with the way workshop updates.
