SGOTM 05 Maintenance Thread

[AlanH]

I'm not sure why that would have set a zero score entry for that date. I'll look at it when I get home this evening.

 

[Mad Professor]

I'm not sure why that would have set a zero score entry for that date. I'll look at it when I get home this evening.

I notice that every time I open a save, the scores are zero, and only resume there proper magnitudes once you play a turn. What would happen if you opened a save, didn't play anything, saved it again and then uploaded it? That might be what happened...

 

[AlanH]

Yes, that occurred to me as well. I guess the question then is why would anyone do that? I'm thinking I may change the script to reject a save for the same date as an existing save.

 

[Ralph_Jackson]

I guess the question then is why would anyone do that? I'm thinking I may change the script to reject a save for the same date as an existing save.

Not saying this is what occured but you would get this scenario in the "classic"
1. Open the save
2. Move scout or warrior to reveal tiles
3. Save to discuss where to settle

Start that a lot of SG's have!

Ralph

 

[AlanH]

The system already prevents a second upload at 4000 BC, because I don't want the original start file overridden. So you can't upload the start+scout_move status, accidentally or deliberately.

This case occurred at 280 BC. At or near 4000 BC, the zero score would have had no impact.

 

[DaviddesJ]

I guess the question then is why would anyone do that? I'm thinking I may change the script to reject a save for the same date as an existing save.

The most common reason to upload multiple saves at the same date would be diplomacy, you might want to make certain trades or agreements and then discuss how those have affected diplomatic relations with other opponents, and what to do next.

However, you can always just post those save files internally to the team thread, so I don't see a problem with disallowing multiple uploads for the same turn.

 

[Sam_Yeager]

However, you can always just post those save files internally to the team thread, so I don't see a problem with disallowing multiple uploads for the same turn.

Alan doesn't like saves being posted to the tesm thread.

 

[DaviddesJ]

Alan doesn't like saves being posted to the tesm thread.

Really? I know it's against the SGOTM rules to transfer the game from one player to another except through the official upload. But I thought there was no problem with posting intermediate saves in the team thread so that other players can observe and comment on them.

 

[AlanH]

My only concern arises because I have seen more than one occasion when the next player has picked up an intermediate or previous save from the team thread instead of getting the latest save from the progress page.

 

[AlanH]

I have been reminded that there is believed to be a bug in the Specialist Stacker feature in the HoF Mod. If you find you are unable to assign a specialist in spite of having all the pre-requisites, please try turning off the Specialist Stacker option to see if this fixes it.

 

[Piko]

alright have a slight problem here, my game crashed 2 turns in. I do have an autosave it seams 1 turn in. Do you suggest i reload nd go from there? I seem to get a conflict between firefox and civ 4 which crashes civ

 

[AlanH]

In the event of a crash you have to reload your most recent autosav and replay the actions you took since that save..

You *should* have autosaves set to happen every turn, and so you should be able to start at the beginning of the turn when you crashed. Worst case would be if the crash happened during the autosave or immediately before it.

Sounds as if you'd better not run Firefox at the same time as Civ4!

 

[Piko]

yer but then i can be on this incredible forum at the same time OK i'll set autosave to 1 turn, thanks for the help

 

[dutchfire]

While looking at the progress page, I noticed that all teams except the Mac team are playing this game in Warlords. What's up with that?

 

[LKendter]

While looking at the progress page, I noticed that all teams except the Mac team are playing this game in Warlords. What's up with that?

I am on one of the teams, and we are playing the original game. Why do you think we are playing on Warlords?

 

[culdeus]

Will there be a 0AD spoiler?

 

[Thrallia]

While looking at the progress page, I noticed that all teams except the Mac team are playing this game in Warlords. What's up with that?

we are also playing on vanilla...I don't see what would make you think we were playing in warlords...

 

[Sam_Yeager]

I am on one of the teams, and we are playing the original game. Why do you think we are playing on Warlords?

we are also playing on vanilla...I don't see what would make you think we were playing in warlords...

It's probably the fact all the teams except the Mac team have the logo against their names instead of the logo. Perhaps just a cut & paste hiccup when the SGOTM05 progress board was created?

 

[Gosha190]

SGOTM progress looks very strange: OneSS score equals to zero, power MurkyW has the same value. Is it truth or bug?

 

[Erkon]

I think the score equals zero happens when a save is uploaded twice during the same turn. At least according to previous posts in this thread...