I had a recent serie of failures with AoE.
- I played a nice game last week where a Lich spawned on a death mana node on the 2 tiles from my capital and summoned 2 skellies/turn duration 2 turns.. It went well until the lich earned enough xp to get cannibalize : he became unkillable by stacks of warriors: Barbarian Lichs earn free xp too quickly; without having won any combat ; even the skellies didn't kill much warriors) (and I could save/reload at that time)
- a week later, (this weekend) the game loads at first, but thereafter it refused to load back : direct CTD (I tried to reload to the initial save-game after 2 turns because it took 2 turns to remember why I sent those units out there and what they should do next (like you were playing/fleeing from a barb, the quit, load back, and forgot that your unit was supposed to be fleeing from the now unseen barb).
- so I updated the svn (removed all assets but the fpk's) it refuses to load : I take it easy as "broken savegame" often appear when updating svn. Thus I started a new game, and played about 80 turns, went to sleep, came back 2 days later (yesterday) : impossible to load any file, the official save, the quick save, the automated saves.
- I update the svn : nothing is downloaded.
- I remove all files but the fpk's ... update the svn : everything is broken : no Rife Launcher and no maps.
- I remove all new files, get back the previously deleted files, remove everything but fpk and rifelauncher (but not fpk's)... update the svn : Rife Launcher starts : seems ok.... no maps ??? WTH : the svn update did not download the maps ?
- I go back to the forum see that the svn version needs to have nothing in the folder : I remove everything and launch svn update : files are updated.... game start but CTD on map creation : I note that there is only 1 fpk file instead of 2 in the previous folder
- I reinstall AoE 14.4 (or 1.44.. ?) over the already present files and launch an svn update : no files are downloaded ??? o.O some should have been downloaded as the version are clearly different ! (still game launch but ctd on map creation) (that last move was borderline stupid and shouldn't have given a working game... but the issue is that nothing was updated.
so now I have no working version of RifE /AoE.
and I checked that the save/load issue was only AoE related : after failing to get a working game, I started and played a MoM game and save/load worked.
so 2 issues:
-loading stopped brutally to work (issue with loading from a save that worked at least once)
-maybe a issue with saving games (issue with loading from a save that was never confirmed as working at least once)
-Svn update didn't update everything (missing map folder / missing fpk...etc)
any tips ?
regards