Mapfinder error?

Elear

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I have been having a problem with Mapfinder.

I left it on for about 1.5 hours and came back. C3C is not running and Map Report is open.

'116 rejected'
'11 accepted'

It seems this way every time I do Mapfinder by the way, it never makes it past 150 or so maps before it tries to restart C3C or something, and never makes it back into the program.

So, I sit down and watch Mapfinder run. It pauses for about 40 seconds after going in game. I only ask it to check for:

AND > 0 river
AND > 0 cattle

Not even domination limit, at this point, because I don't dare ask it to do more until this is solved.

Surely it doesn't take 40 seconds to check 9 tiles for 2 settings? If it does, it'll take forever to find any 4400+ milk run maps with cattle on a river, considering after each session of Mapfinder, I have to restart my computer because Mapfinder locks up and will not close. With the current state, I can look at about one dozen maps it finds every about 2 hours. Of these dozen, about one third of them are actually pure grassland starts, and not swamp/jungle crap :rolleyes:

(BTW, the above means it takes 1 minute per map)

Here are my mapfinder settings:

Quick start - Yes
Load time - 2000
Save time - 1000
Keystroke time - 50
Dialog time - 500
Restart C3C after - 256 iterations
Delay after restarting C3C - 5000
Stop after - 200 maps
Directories - Default

Any help on this please?

-Elear
 
Set your timers higher. This problem has been mentioned several times in the Mapfinder thread. You'll likely find good suggestions on numbers there.
 
Ok thanks :)
 
Restart C3C after - 256 iterations

Exactly what superslug said!:) This problem has been explained many times in the MapFinder thread. There is a bug in Civ3 Conquest (C3C) that causes C3C itself to crash after so many map generation. Because Firaxis hasn't fixed this bug, I implemented my workaround solution by giving MapFinder an option to restart before C3C crashes and burns. Since your C3C crashes right around 127 iterations (116 rejected + 11 accepted = 127 maps), you need to set MapFinder to Restart C3C in every 64 iterations (127 div 2 = 64) to be on the safe side.
 
Well it works now thanks all! :)

Instead of 120 in 2 hours, I just got over 250 in 1 hour!
 
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