Unable to load multiplayer savegame

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"Kim Hellan" <xxx@yyyl.com> wrote in message
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> Playing Civ3 Conquest version 1.20 multiplayer....
> I can not successfully load a saved game.
> Whenever I load a savegame, the screen is just black. When I then move a
> unit, the map suddenly appears, but the game then freezes.
>
> Anyone else having this problem?

Upgrade to 1.22
1.20 was full of bugs
1.20, 1.22 won't work w/ any games started with 1.15 or earlier

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"Kim Hellan" <xxx@yyyl.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks, I'll try version 1.22 instead.
> I must say that I'm a bit disappointed with the quality of their patches.
> They don't seem to test them very thoroughly, since they miss very obvious
> bugs.
>
> /Kim
>
> "The Stare" <wat1@not.likely.frontiernet.net> wrote in message
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> >
> > "Kim Hellan" <xxx@yyyl.com> wrote in message
> > news:40f18445$0$244$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk...
> > > Playing Civ3 Conquest version 1.20 multiplayer....
> > > I can not successfully load a saved game.
> > > Whenever I load a savegame, the screen is just black. When I then move
a
> > > unit, the map suddenly appears, but the game then freezes.
> > >
> > > Anyone else having this problem?
> >
> > Upgrade to 1.22
> > 1.20 was full of bugs
> > 1.20, 1.22 won't work w/ any games started with 1.15 or earlier

1.22 might be the last we see of patches for C3C. They pulled the programmer
to work on different projects. Since there won't be any more expansions and
they already stole.... i mean... have our money, there's no reason to
support it further.

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Now that we are talking patch quality......
I'm also a great fan of Blizzard games (Warcraft, Starcraft) and they are
excellent at patching their games.
Long after the release of a game, they still make patches that balances the
game a bit better and introduces new features.
And their patches are always excellent quality.

/Kim




"Jeffery S. Jones" <jeffsj@execpc.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:12:38 GMT, "The Stare"
> <wat1@not.likely.frontiernet.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Kim Hellan" <xxx@yyyl.com> wrote in message
> >news:40f25b96$0$298$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk...
> >> Thanks, I'll try version 1.22 instead.
> >> I must say that I'm a bit disappointed with the quality of their
patches.
> >> They don't seem to test them very thoroughly, since they miss very
obvious
> >> bugs.
>
> Patches don't make money, so most companies can't afford to do a
> large testing cycle on them. If they work for the programmer's team,
> they likely will work in the field.
>
> This is by far not the only program to have patches released which
> just didn't work right. 1.22 came out almost instantly once 1.20
> proved not to work correctly.
>
>
>
> I don't love the incompatible savegame deal though. I understand
> how it can happen -- significant fixes change the actual underlying
> data -- but it still is confusing. I tried to load up an old game I
> wanted to finish after I put the patches on -- forgetting that I'd
> planned to finish it first, then patch.
>
> No go. Oh, it loaded without crashing, but there were a lot of
> glitches. I decided to just reinstall sans patches, finish it, then
> patch.
>
> 1.22 seems pretty decent. A lot of fixes in -- I'd complain much
> more about the release state of the game vs. the patches themselves,
> which messed up a few places (even in 1.22) but mostly fixed things.
>
> >> "The Stare" <wat1@not.likely.frontiernet.net> wrote in message
> >> news:zyfIc.497$Yj.376@news01.roc.ny...
> >> >
> >> > "Kim Hellan" <xxx@yyyl.com> wrote in message
> >> > news:40f18445$0$244$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk...
> >> > > Playing Civ3 Conquest version 1.20 multiplayer....
> >> > > I can not successfully load a saved game.
> >> > > Whenever I load a savegame, the screen is just black. When I then
move
> >a
> >> > > unit, the map suddenly appears, but the game then freezes.
> >> > >
> >> > > Anyone else having this problem?
> >> >
> >> > Upgrade to 1.22
> >> > 1.20 was full of bugs
> >> > 1.20, 1.22 won't work w/ any games started with 1.15 or earlier
> >
> >1.22 might be the last we see of patches for C3C. They pulled the
programmer
> >to work on different projects. Since there won't be any more expansions
and
> >they already stole.... i mean... have our money, there's no reason to
> >support it further.
>
> Not after announcing the patch plan and not with the list of known
> fixable bugs. It may take time, but I bet they will eventually do it.
>
> It isn't up to version 1.31 (the final patch versions of MOO2 and
> MOM), both of which could have had more done after (Mac MOO2 did
> (sigh), but it never made it to the PC version).
>
> --
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