Year Glitch

**bobal90** · 01-26-2010, 23:02

So i just started a new campaign and was on year 253BC when i saved and decided to come back later. Later when i reloaded the game i reactivated the background script and ended my turn only to see that the year jumped from 253BC to 14AD now i did not realize this until after i saved so it seems like i am stuck at that year and i really don't to repeat all those turns is there any way i can change the date

**Subotan** · 01-27-2010, 00:15

Did you quit to the main menu, then reload it from there?

**vartan** · 01-27-2010, 00:16

Originally Posted by bobal90

So i just started a new campaign and was on year 253BC when i saved and decided to come back later. Later when i reloaded the game i reactivated the background script and ended my turn only to see that the year jumped from 253BC to 14AD now i did not realize this until after i saved so it seems like i am stuck at that year and i really don't to repeat all those turns is there any way i can change the date

During all that time from 272 to 253BC was there ever a game session where you forgot to load the script? Sometimes when you THINK you've loaded the script, you can deselect city, reselect one, only to find the advisor pop up again, and then you can activate it for good. It's happened to me, that's why I always double check.

**vartan** · 01-27-2010, 01:09

Originally Posted by Subotan

Did you quit to the main menu, then reload it from there?

This too. If you're going to end a game session, QUIT EB!!! I cannot emphasize this enough. You'll need to quit, so that when you want to resume, you will have to RESTART EB AFRESH BEFORE LOADING.

**Aemilius Paulus** · 01-27-2010, 01:38

Originally Posted by vartan

Sometimes when you THINK you've loaded the script, you can deselect city, reselect one, only to find the advisor pop up again, and then you can activate it for good. It's happened to me, that's why I always double check.

Yeah, since I reload every ten minutes, I can attest that this method works just fine. Travelling back to the future is quite easy, and so is coming back - no Delorean needed, nor do you have to quit to the main menu. Just do as vartan said. I played three campaigns, and all are just fine, despite the fact I encountered this glitch all the time.

BTW, a good way to see if you messed up once in your campaign through the failure of script activation is to check whether the character traits (preferably of the FMs who you've had for the longest) correspond with the season. You know, the Aestas, Ver, Autumnus, Hiems.

Namely the Hiems trait - you can always see exactly when the winter is upon the EB world, from the snow covering the strat map. If it is winter, but the character traits show otherwise, then you forgot to activate the script and then pressing 'End Turn' with no script activated at least once.

**johnhughthom** · 01-27-2010, 03:18

There is one benefit to this 14 AD thing, if you press end turn all the "This year in history" boxes come up, I spent hours reading through them all once.

**bobal90** · 01-27-2010, 03:36

Yeah i must have forgot to activate the script one of times which is what did it, thanks for the help.

**vartan** · 01-27-2010, 04:55

Originally Posted by johnhughthom

There is one benefit to this 14 AD thing, if you press end turn all the "This year in history" boxes come up, I spent hours reading through them all once.

Dude, your kidding right? You HAVE to be kidding.

**johnhughthom** · 01-27-2010, 05:24

Why? I never read them when playing as the game doesn't play out along the same lines as real history, I found reading them makes the flaws in the RTW engine even more obvious and annoying. So I read them all in one go when I wasn't actually playing a campaign.

Guess I could have just searched for the files...