Replacement(s) needed for 16-civ Rocky Pangea pitboss
- Thread starter Munro
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Munro
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It's back up. Looks like something went bad again, between when I logged in, and when Kuningas logged in... 
The autosave from the start of my turn (and all earlier saves) are fine. Any save after that is corrupted...
I've reloaded from my autosave. 27 hours on the clock. Kuningas, oyzar, Morgan and CH still left to play.
I've also moved the game over to use port 2056 (the default) to see if that makes any difference to the problems we've been having. (Previous game on this server using that port was fine). Unlikely to have an impact but it's easy to try.
Please remember to remove the :2060 from the direct IP hostname you connect to, the next time you log in.
Any problems, let me know.
Cheers,
Munro
Edit: I've put it back on port 2060..
The autosave from the start of my turn (and all earlier saves) are fine. Any save after that is corrupted...I've reloaded from my autosave. 27 hours on the clock. Kuningas, oyzar, Morgan and CH still left to play.
Please remember to remove the :2060 from the direct IP hostname you connect to, the next time you log in.
Any problems, let me know.
Cheers,
Munro
Edit: I've put it back on port 2060..
KingMorgan
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Munro
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Welcome Indiansmoke! 
Thanks for subbing.
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Civstats is down again.
Munro
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Civstats is back up again. (Game was up but forgot to reactivate civstats - sorry).
Something is definitely up though - the game 'hung' again on sunday. Same problem as before where something seems to get corrupted. It was still allowing everyone to connect and play their turns, but the admin interface was frozen, and reloading from autosaves gives the exact same behaviour (even after a reboot) forcing a reload from an earlier autosave. This time it seems to have gone wrong sometime between Ricardo's login and Ras' login.
I'm going to have to start checking it every day now (since we can't rely on civstats or login problems to catch it). I don't think it's the server hardware as it's been running another game in parallel without any problems on the other game, and it has run much bigger maps than this one in the past. If anyone has any ideas or spots anything odd while playing, please let me know though.
We might also try switching back to port 2056 at some point in case that makes any difference (although, I doubt it).
Anyway - everything is back up and running fine again now.
Something is definitely up though - the game 'hung' again on sunday. Same problem as before where something seems to get corrupted. It was still allowing everyone to connect and play their turns, but the admin interface was frozen, and reloading from autosaves gives the exact same behaviour (even after a reboot) forcing a reload from an earlier autosave. This time it seems to have gone wrong sometime between Ricardo's login and Ras' login.
I'm going to have to start checking it every day now (since we can't rely on civstats or login problems to catch it). I don't think it's the server hardware as it's been running another game in parallel without any problems on the other game, and it has run much bigger maps than this one in the past. If anyone has any ideas or spots anything odd while playing, please let me know though.
We might also try switching back to port 2056 at some point in case that makes any difference (although, I doubt it).
Anyway - everything is back up and running fine again now.
RRRaskolnikov
Goldfish
@Munro: last time the game crashed, I was accidently trying to log in with BUFFY loaded... the game said me I needed to use the regular version, then when I tryed to load again without mod, it wasn't working anymore... not sure it will help, but just in case...
edit: also I got to replay my last turn (played it sunday afternoon, I thought it was after the reload)...
edit: also I got to replay my last turn (played it sunday afternoon, I thought it was after the reload
)...
classical_hero
In whom I trust
I am having trouble connecting to the game. I was able to get to connected to host and then is puased. The first time I was able to get past the leader page, but I did no get any transfer from the host.
RRRaskolnikov
Goldfish
^^ that sounds exactly like what I experienced during last crash 
classical_hero
In whom I trust
It might have been a bad connection on my end, since I am now connected and join the server. Civstats is down though.
Could it be related to the problems Ricardo is having with the Fog of War (TG) game? Maybe the same thing causing problems here.
Munro
Deity
I don't think so.. as we're not using any mods here, so directory structure shouldn't make any difference. (Also, Ricardo was able to connect successfully to this same server while he had that problem, without any issues).
Looks like the game got into a bad state again, this time between Rusten and Ras' logins. (All autosaves after Ras' login were corrupted; all before that were fine).
So Ras - it definitely looks like your login is causing problems. Please can we try a couple of things to see if it corrects the problem?
- Make sure you're not accidentally connecting with any Mods loaded (e.g. BUFFY)
- If you are using any CustomAssets (e.g. Blue Marble etc), can you disable them by renaming your \My Games\Beyond the Sword\CustomAssets folder to something else (e.g. tempCustomAssets) before starting the game, then hold down SHIFT while the game is starting up to clear the cache (you should see a message during start-up confirming this) before connecting.
- Change the name from Gaïus Julius Raskolnikus to Gaius Julius Raskolnikus or something that uses just basic ASCII..
http://hof.civfanatics.net/civ4/mod.php?show=assetschecker
Let's see if that helps first. Sorry for all the inconvenience everyone. Game has been restored with 26hours on the clock but a few people will need to replay their turns (anyone who played after Ras).
RRRaskolnikov
Goldfish
I don't use any mod to log (did it last friday by error only), and I don't think I am using CustomAssets... though I'll check. I'll do the clearing cache thing and try another nickname in about 4 hours to see if it's the problem (I hope it's not the "ï" causing problems, I quite like it 
)...
Apologies anyone if my system is messing the game...
Ras
)...Apologies anyone if my system is messing the game...
Ras
RRRaskolnikov
Goldfish
OK now it is getting annoying... it's the third time I replay this turn and now one fight result is different!... dramaticaly different 
How can that be? If it's too annoying to reload again I'll live with it but I am just fed up with this turn 96!!!
I did all you said Munro though... asset checker says my BTS 3.19 is fine... cleared the cash and changed my name... do you see any problem with the server now?
@Oyzar: this game has always been in english, I used another comp for the teamer pitboss, and have changed it back to english anyway...
Cheers
How can that be? If it's too annoying to reload again I'll live with it but I am just fed up with this turn 96!!!I did all you said Munro though... asset checker says my BTS 3.19 is fine... cleared the cash and changed my name... do you see any problem with the server now?
@Oyzar: this game has always been in english, I used another comp for the teamer pitboss, and have changed it back to english anyway...
Cheers
RRRaskolnikov
Goldfish
I still lost my 500 BC turn due to game crash
Feel your pain, I lost a turn to the AI (which whipped cities and deleted units), and now this... (to be honnest I more than feel your pain, I am about to go insane).
classical_hero
In whom I trust
Perhaps we should start afresh?
