possibly the worst bug ever

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I just quit (for now) my 2nd Dutch campaign because it got so buggy.

I had captured all the 2nd rates in the French fleet bar a couple, stuck them all in one fleet and boom.. CTD! every time I click that fleet. It got a lot worse though, I'd click on some random town and boom.. CTD! I agree it's gets worse and worse as the campaign progresses. I've been reading about the Dutch campaign from others and it seems a lot of people are experiencing bugs as the game goes on. A lot of times in that campaign it just randomly CTDs. Was making 80/turn, awesome fleets and military. Literally 2-3 weeks of hardcore gaming.

I just started up again as GB coz I reckon that faction will be properly tested out. I'm already getting CTDs though, it's around 1740 or so.

There is a workaround for the fleet CTD: you take another fleet and try to merge it, popup will appear, click about a bit and then it should be normal again. If the fleet is not full, it's easier... just merge another ship into the bugged fleet and the bug's gone. I know a guy who was playing Marathas and he got the same bug when he deployed his first 1st rate, so it's not limited to captured ships, 2nd rates etc.

For the moment I think anyone's campaign is definitely not safe from an untimely end due to some unworkable CTD bug. I'm sure most of the bugs have workarounds but there is definitely a possibility that you could have your whole game (and tens of hours of your time) wrecked at any given moment. You gotta live with that if you want to invest time into this game. For the record it hasn't happened to me yet, I can keep playing despite repeated CTDs, but the CTDs are very much there. It's much better with my GB campaign but it still CTDs fairly often.