Bug 6.5 - Unexplained promotion of all units

[Sobaka]

Thal, installed 6.5 following the usual recommended procedure and started a new game. First build was a scout, and with no baracks I received an immediate promotion. This happened for all the units I built. I thought it may just be part of the new version; however, I saved the game and came back to it later to discover that as soon as the game loaded, all of my units received +20 xp and all were promoted again. I shut the game down, load again, over and over, and they continually received promotions! At first a pleasant surprise

xp were also granted for just landing on ancient ruins or just after not seeing the unit for a while as it was on automated 'go to'.

No other mods are being used, cache is empty.

 

[Vanchelon]

Thal, installed 6.5 following the usual recommended procedure and started a new game. First build was a scout, and with no baracks I received an immediate promotion. This happened for all the units I built. I thought it may just be part of the new version; however, I saved the game and came back to it later to discover that as soon as the game loaded, all of my units received +20 xp and all were promoted again. I shut the game down, load again, over and over, and they continually received promotions! At first a pleasant surprise

xp were also granted for just landing on ancient ruins or just after not seeing the unit for a while as it was on automated 'go to'.

No other mods are being used, cache is empty.

Aye, I experienced the same issue and tracked the problem to:
MODS\Unofficial Patch and Thals Balance (v 65)\CiVUP - Civ V Unofficial Patch\Core\CiVUP_General.lua

I'm not well versed enough to identify the specific line that causes the issues, and the ones relating to the free XP (at the bottom of the file) were identical to 6.4 version, which does NOT have this issue.

(Replacing the v6.5 file with v6.4 "fixes" the issue)

 

[jacktannery]

I can confirm this. I thought it was just arabia (see my other 6.5 bug post) but it is the same bug as Sobaka. I also cleared cache & modinfo folders prior to starting.

 

[bennos76]

Me too. Every time a unit embarks or disembarks.

 

[bennos76]

Ah... seems to be fixed in 6.6

 

[Thalassicus]

AI units are given free experience on higher difficulty levels, and in 6.5 I'd accidentally removed the check to ensure it's not a human player.

 

[Sobaka]

Hi Thal, thanks for the fix . There is absolutely no sense in playing this game without your mod.

I have a quick comment about diplomacy at the higher levels. I play at diety only - even though the AI is pathetic at mounting a sufficient attack against me, I will remain constantly at war with an AI civ or multiple civs for so long that they no longer have units in any position to attack at all - they aways demand every single asest I have in negotiations except for the Capital City. The only thing I can think of is that my rating for military power is lower than their own, so they do no make a decent peace offering. Do you think this is just because of the difficulty level, an issue with the AI at Diety, or something that can be looked at with a mod that can adjust the demands of AI in making peace? Sorry if I should have put this on a different thread. Cheers!

 

[Thalassicus]

I'm honestly not sure about that, I haven't looked into diplomacy much. Sneaks might know more about it, ask him on his WWGD thread.