Getting ? Question Mark for new civilization icon

[Kruelgor]

I noticed that it will display properly ONLY after you have already played the scenario and exit back to the menu, but if you restart the entire CIV 5 game then it will go back to showing the ? Random.

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one having this problem.

Has anyone successfully created a scenario with a custom made civilization (not just map) and not have this problem?

Perhaps it's a global bug?

 

[Shiggs713]

I'm gonna test it out and make a test scenario using the canada mod and see if it does the same thing.

 

[Shiggs713]

Same exact problem. I even put a couple standard leaders up there, they show up fine. Canada shows up random. I suspect it is a global bug.

 

[Kruelgor]

Same exact problem. I even put a couple standard leaders up there, they show up fine. Canada shows up random. I suspect it is a global bug.

Bummer. What's the best way to report this to the game devs for them to look into it?

 

[Shiggs713]

i reported it here, I'll report it at 2k also.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=9742556#post9742556

http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1208713#post1208713

 

[Kruelgor]

i reported it here, I'll report it at 2k also.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=9742556#post9742556

Thanks. They'll listen to you.

 

[Kruelgor]

If this is truly a bug then it's going to blow up into a huge issue with the modders here, because many of us here want to create scenarios with custom civilizations.

 

[Zen Blade]

I have this as well with every "new" civilization that I make.

I wonder if it is something to do with artwork... like a "button" from civ IV.

See of Kael's Celtica has this problem...


If not, and I think not, then there is a solution. It is just a matter of finding it. Like I said though, I think it is artwork.

Also, in-game, when you click on the diplomacy menu, do you see a flag next to your Civ? Or just an empty space?

-Zen Blade

 

[Kruelgor]

I have this as well with every "new" civilization that I make.

I wonder if it is something to do with artwork... like a "button" from civ IV.

See of Kael's Celtica has this problem...


If not, and I think not, then there is a solution. It is just a matter of finding it. Like I said though, I think it is artwork.

Also, in-game, when you click on the diplomacy menu, do you see a flag next to your Civ? Or just an empty space?

-Zen Blade

In my case I'm not using any custom made art. I did pretty much exactly what Kael used for his Celtic civ, but I called mine Macedonia.

 

[Zen Blade]

my point being that perhaps custom art or a second set of art definitions is required (even if art files are identical, but simply named differently).

I would ask Kael or something... send a PM

 

[Kruelgor]

my point being that perhaps custom art or a second set of art definitions is required (even if art files are identical, but simply named differently).

I would ask Kael or something... send a PM

Possibly yeah. Keep in mind that it works fine for normal map games, but just not for scenarios. It also works fine if you exit the scenario back to the menu and restart the scenario.

 

[Shiggs713]

I have this as well with every "new" civilization that I make.

I wonder if it is something to do with artwork... like a "button" from civ IV.

See of Kael's Celtica has this problem...


If not, and I think not, then there is a solution. It is just a matter of finding it. Like I said though, I think it is artwork.

Also, in-game, when you click on the diplomacy menu, do you see a flag next to your Civ? Or just an empty space?

-Zen Blade

I just tested it with Kael's celtic Civilization and its the exact same thing. 4 different civilizations having the exact same problems, and one of them Kael created (I was already quite certain anyways, hence why I already reported it). I think we can confirm this as 100% bug, and firaxis needs to fix it asap.

 

[Kruelgor]

....and firaxis needs to fix it asap.

Yeah, I would think so since modding scenarios is almost useless now since it will completely confuse the downloader/player.

In the days and weeks ahead we're going to see piles of modders complaining about this exact issue.

 

[Shiggs713]

they've already moved it to the confirmed bugs sub-forum, so maybe the wheels will get rolling

 

[Kruelgor]

they've already moved it to the confirmed bugs sub-forum, so maybe the wheels will get rolling

That is encouraging. I'm glad you stepped up.

 

[Shiggs713]

was there a patch or something? its worked perfectly like 10 times in a row now for me, maybe its because i haven't reloaded civ in a while, just going back to main menu, re-enabling mod after each rebuild.... i'm confused now

 

[Kruelgor]

was there a patch or something? its worked perfectly like 10 times in a row now for me, maybe its because i haven't reloaded civ in a while, just going back to main menu, re-enabling mod after each rebuild.... i'm confused now

It will work fine if you restart the scenario after playing it once, but on the first time it wont work. There seems to be some kind of cache or something, maybe something with the database. I don't know.

 

[Zen Blade]

What Kruelgor said.

It's immediately after you load the scenario. All of the new civs are question marks.

 

[The_J]

they've already moved it to the confirmed bugs sub-forum, so maybe the wheels will get rolling

Looking at the bug list...we need a Formula 1 car...that would be rolling fast enough.

 

[Zen Blade]

A recent post in my Sengoku thread makes me wonder if this bug was fixed.

Does anyone know? My mod/scenario still has the "???"'s, but how about for other people?

thanks,
-Zen Blade