i got pissed and deleted the game

[sebanaj]

I was with Babylon building the Great Library and what happens one turn before I complete it! The french city of Paris built the Great Library!! arghhhhhhh! I got angry and deleted it.
All my tactic went to trash, I was Babylon with the realistic map done by the other guy over Marla Singer version.

But i had the recycle bin disabled, anyone know how can i undelete the game????

I'm regretting deleting it. damn my temper

 

[Sanaz]

I can't help you with undeleting the file, but for the surprise loss of the wonder race, I can suggest using the F7 window to see what cities are building it, and then using your embassy to investigate the city to see how far they have to go. I don't do this every time, only if I won't be able to switch to another wonder, or if I think the race is close and I have a decision to make between a few wonders or strategies (like maybe building attack units for the entire race, and then taking it by force).

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

seba: no way to get it back maybe you have an auto-save from a few turns back?????

 

[Tassadar]

Great library is a wast of shield IMO, it mean you want to rely on a.i. to do research. It is much better in old day to expend ( create 8-10 city then built temple and library in each, this will be much better than the great library because you can get a tech lead, and it will last forever.

Great library expire whith education which come pretty soon. I prefer to target medieval great wonder.

 

[cracker]

Tassadar,

Your perspective on the Great Library only applies in some games and depends on the civ you play, the terrain layout, and if you play at low difficulties most the time. (I think you usually play at the lower levels based on some of your comments.)

The Great Library is probably the most useful wonder in the ancient age in most games at Regent difficulty or above. It basically lets you beeline for the Great Library and then set your research to zero after you get there while guaranteeing you that you will stay caught up in techs. You them build cash and plan to whip past all you competitors as you enter the medieval age.

I win so quickly with this strategy that I usually win by domination or conquest on large Monarch maps before we can even get to tanks or airplanes. Game over; move on to the next challenge.

To make the Great Library work you must be disciplined and you must be a position to have contact with two other civs who are ahead of you in techs.

Also, just for the record, posting this GL discussion here on this thread is drifting away from the subject and heading off topic. It might have been better to search for Great Library discussions and post this comment there if you really fealt strongly about it and/or relly fealt that the comment had any value.

 

[joycem10]

agree with cracker - love to upgrade a stack of war chariots to knights with all my saved money from no research - the GL makes it possible.

sebanaj gotta agree with sanaz check and see if you have an auto-save from the turn before, maybe you'll get lucky.

 

[Tassadar]

Originally posted by cracker
Tassadar,

Your perspective on the Great Library only applies in some games and depends on the civ you play, the terrain layout, and if you play at low difficulties most the time. (I think you usually play at the lower levels based on some of your comments.)

The Great Library is probably the most useful wonder in the ancient age in most games at Regent difficulty or above. It basically lets you beeline for the Great Library and then set your research to zero after you get there while guaranteeing you that you will stay caught up in techs. You them build cash and plan to whip past all you competitors as you enter the medieval age.

I win so quickly with this strategy that I usually win by domination or conquest on large Monarch maps before we can even get to tanks or airplanes. Game over; move on to the next challenge.

To make the Great Library work you must be disciplined and you must be a position to have contact with two other civs who are ahead of you in techs.

Also, just for the record, posting this GL discussion here on this thread is drifting away from the subject and heading off topic. It might have been better to search for Great Library discussions and post this comment there if you really fealt strongly about it and/or relly fealt that the comment had any value.

My last game; regent, continent, std size, 5 A.I. i was German and i got half an age tech advence over the a.i. I wipe out 2 a.i with knight and 3 other with panzer. I had no great library.

My second previous game, Emperor level, continent, std size, 4 A.I. i won a conquest victory and i was able to keep up in tech with a.i. , i bought some tech and i also sold some, the only great wonder i got was overdam prebuilt with palace about 40 turn before.

So i am pretty good and my advice are right, built a fine core of 8-10 good city around your capitol, built temple. library, increase size as much as you can, built marketplace, switch to republic et voila. Later on with forbiden palace built another core so you will have 16-20 city, i reach easily modern era well before 2050.

 

[Moonsinger]

Originally posted by sebanaj
But i had the recycle bin disabled, anyone know how can i undelete the game????

Try EasyRecovery by Ontrack. Yes, you can undelete the game (even when your trash/recycle bin was disabled). The success rate is really based on how much disk writing on your system since you deleted that file. If your data drive is on a different partition than your OS or swap partition (drive letter), there is a good chance that you may still be able to recover those deleted files. Anyway, I think they have a tryout version for you to download.

 

[sebanaj]

I didn't find the auto saved files anyway, it doesn't matter i'm working on some mod done by other guy, trying to replace America, Iroquois, Aztecs and Zulu with Spain, Portugal, Vikings and Ottoman. With the marla map.

So i would have started the game all over again.
The Iroquos, Aztecs, etc will be barbarians.