The new GEM 5.2 you sent me has 25 MB as opposed to 33 MB with the old GEM 5.2.
However, I still cannot load the savegame. The same error persists.
The "lock modified assets" setting is a setting (usually for single player games only, it says so in the description) to prevent the saved games to be loaded on computers with different asset files... that is, if I started a game on GEM 5.1, and wanted to continue on 5.2, it would not work - since the files have changed.
Unless this setting is checked, there is no such prevention - for all I know of, this is also true for multiplayer games. So you could theoretically continue a GEM 5.1 game in GEM 5.2, or even on your own copy of GEM.
The problem is that it could be used for cheating... I believe you could mod bombers to have a range of 500, load the game, bomb your enemies, half a globe away, save, and send it to the next person, who will have the normal range for his planes (unless he changed it, too).
Therefore, in theory, the locked assets would be a good thing, as they would prevent people from being able to do such that. However, there seem to be issues... even using the exact same files that you sent me (your mod folder), I cannot load the saved game. I am not sure if it is due to thjis option having been checked... probably you can load the saved game yourself, and see if it is checked (under settings).
If you did not check it, I really have no idea what could cause such a behaviour of the saved game. I am afraid that if the cause of me not being able to load the game, you would probably have to take your turn again (I know that this is annoying as Germany, since it takes much longer than e.g. Japan).
Maybe (for testing purpuoses) you should disable custom assets in the GEM Mod ini file. I could also try to create a saved game with my copy of GEM and send it to you, to see if you can load it in return, or if the error is mutual.
Best Regards,
Martin
