Pitboss crashes at space ship launch

It happened twice now. Load the game (admin password: see spoiler), log in as the Vikings and launch the space ship.

If anyone else encounters this problem: the game of the 'launching' player will not crash, but simply lose connection. So (s)he can then save the game and send that savegame to the host. When the host loads that savegame the game continues with the space ship launched. Make sure not to launch at the beginning of the turn, but after you've been through the city building phase.

We have a pitboss game running and stumbled into this problem. Your advice helped. Thanks a lot!

Maybe this hint should be written into some FAQ if there'll ever be one.

Jensen

My regular group has encountered this problem twice now on both 3.17 and 3.19 Pitboss. I rebuilt our Pitboss server after the first time it happened, on a different machine, to no effect. We have never had anyone successfully launched a spaceship in a Pitboss game of BTS.

I have attached a savegame (no admin or Civ passwords; we're all friends playing on a private network). I have also attached the crash dump from the Pitboss itself, if that's useful to anyone official looking at this problem.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Load the attached savegame on a 3.19 Pitboss server.
2. Connect to the Pitboss using BTS 3.19.
3. Select the Persians.
4. Launch the Spaceship.
5. Observe the Pitboss: it will have crashed.

Has anyone ever found a solution to this issue? Edit: Durrrr, helps if I read Matrix's post, doesn't it?

No solution, just the above mentioned workaround. Works pretty well indeed.