Black Map Screen

[Brianbs]

With PTW, after you have logged on why does the map appear black and you cannot see the cities? This is very frustrating for us all. As soon as the sounds of improvements has finished the cities appear. This error started after we loaded the 1.22 patch. Help please!!

 

[LLXerxes]

what do you mean by "logged on"

 

[Brianbs]

When you enter your password

 

[LLXerxes]

you mean in hotseat games?

 

[Brianbs]

I am sorry, I did not think it would be as hard as this! We are playing CIVIII Conquests by email. The current game we are playing is World War II in the Pacific. We have played various games over the past year without any problems until we downloaded the 1.22 patch. Since then the opening screen after you have entered your password goes black and you cannot see the map or what improvement each city has made in its last turn. We used to be able to view the map as each city improvement was shown.
WE NO LONGER CAN. Is this a standard Bug in the program?

 

[Theoden]

I am experiencing the exact same problem in PBEM with the 1.22 patch. It is not only in scenarios, it's also for epic games. Until now I haven't found a solution.

 

[predesad]

I am experiencing the exact same problem in PBEM with the 1.22 patch. It is not only in scenarios, it's also for epic games. Until now I haven't found a solution.

there is no solution, this is actually a "planned" aspect which was added with patch 1.20 (& then 1.22) this was desigend to prevent another bug which occassionally would allow a player to get a view of the previous player's territory when the turn first loaded (can't remember what the name of that bug was) unfortunately this was the best they could do to eliminate a rare occurence, i say it is rare because at one point i was in 13 pbems, some lasting to the industrial age and i only experieced it once, but others it happened more frequently. my suggestion, scan your territory carefully after the black out phase; when your cities finish building improvements / units / wonders set production to something you know you do not want to build then you can go back and look at all those cities whose builds just completed when the map is viewable. for example, in the early game every turn when builds are completed i choose wealth as my next build, then after the blackout phase i hit F1 and look at all the cities building wealth. in later times when some cities might actually be building wealth i use coloseums because i rarely build them, same process after the black out phase, hit F1 and look at every city building coloseums. it is annoying, but it can be overcome easily though turns are more time consuming as a result. do not look for it to be corrected, i only hope it does not exist in civ4.

 

[Brianbs]

I think you have missed the issue. The Map screen is black after you enter your password. Consequently, you cannot see if a city has a problem or what it has just built until the program has cycled through all the cities. It then shows the map.

 

[predesad]

I think you have missed the issue. The Map screen is black after you enter your password. Consequently, you cannot see if a city has a problem or what it has just built until the program has cycled through all the cities. It then shows the map.

I don't think I missed the issue, I thought I understood it perfectly. You load your turn, you enter your password, it comes up and says it is your turn to play. Then it cycles through the build phase . . .

"Ur has built cathedral"

"Sumer has built musket"

etc, etc, all the while the screen is completely black accept for these announcements, if you zoom into a city during this phase the map is still black, but yopu should be able to at least see these announcements, but nothing else. Sometimes you can even hear cheers in the background indicating some city isd celebrating WLTK, but you have no way of knowing which city it is. Then finally after all cities production is complete and you get to the phase where you can move units you can then see the mapo for the first time. This was added intentionally in PBEM with patch 1.20 & 1.22 as I stated in my previous post. I will not repeat what I had posted earlier, but if something other than what I have just said is happening then I guess I did misunderstand.

 

[Dr. Beetnuts]

"Black" map screen? That is so racist.

 

[predesad]

"Black" map screen? That is so racist.

surely you are not serious

 

[Alfonso64]

... You load your turn, you enter your password, it comes up and says it is your turn to play. Then it cycles through the build phase . . .
"Ur has built cathedral"
"Sumer has built musket"
etc, etc, all the while the screen is completely black accept for these announcements, ....

Hi! Something of similar happens to me: LAN game with Civ3 Conquests, begin the game, play a lot of time, save anq exit.
The next time, after load the saved game, tha map screen in black, tha little window on left bottom shows the location of the territory, but the big map is black. No messages, nothing happens.
The problem was before and after 1.22 patch