Looks Like the Patch is Out

Yeah.
I cant believe that is finally here...

"The're two important things in life: one is sex the other, i don't remember"
Woody Allen

I've installed patch 1.17 and now I'm unable to load my last autosave game. The game load status bar locks-up at about 50%. It will allow me to load a very old manually saved game, but unfortunately I was forced to use the autosave feature due to the end of turn black-screen-of-death problem. I'm afraid I'll lose the will to live if I have to go back over hundreds of turns of gameplay - so for now the game is shelved. If anyone can think of a workround please let me know.

"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free."

If you were auto-saving every turn, you might be able to load the auto-save prior to the one you couldn't load.

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Space Empires Depot | SE:V Balance Mod

Likely you are going to be disappointed. I've known of a few times where save games are simply incompatible with changes made to the game through patches. I have that problem in other retail games where i didn't know there was a patch, but the patch fixed something i wanted so i patched... Poof went save game, reroll from scratch. Its just a fact of life that things change and sometimes so drastically that you can't reload from older versions.

Dragagon

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

-- Robert Heinlein

Thanks for the patch Mr. Developer! (I don't know exactly who you are). You've made a lot of great changes, not to mention it seems (from the notes) that you fixed many of the turn stalling issues. Now I can finally delve into the game =D

Great!

Cpt. Kwok, can you please confirm whether the current 0.97 Balance Mod works with 1.17, or should I wait for a new release from you? (won't be starting a game without B.M.)

Gack!!! it must be hard to write game code. People threaten to shelf your game if you don't fix bugs, and then when you do, they threaten you some more. Come on people, give the man some grace!

You won't be able to use the Balance Mod v0.97 with v1.17 as there was an AI data file addition that breaks compatibility. I've already got the fix, but alas I'm at work and won't be able to upload v0.98 until later tonight.

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Space Empires Depot | SE:V Balance Mod

Captain,
Thanks for the advice. I eventually got the autosave game to load by first loading an old manually saved game and then loading the last autosave game while the game was running. The loadup was painfully slow and the autosave game still does not appear to load when starting the game from the startup menu for the first time after applying the patch.

"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free."

great, your response times are unmatched won't do any harm to study some tonight instead of some space battle action, anyway looking forward to 0.98...
(which timezone are you in, Cpt. Kwok?)

For steam users, do I have to wait for steam to add the patch and let the steam program patch me up, or can I manually download the patch and update the files from the steam directory?

Just wait for steam update