EB Urgent Appeal-CTD crashes

[Slartibardfast]

Do you love EB?

Have you been brought to your knees in frustration whilst playing and crashing?

Then give now!

If you have a re-enforcement battle immanent in your campaign save it.

Weather the game crashes or not upload a compressed version of the save file to:

https://www.europabarbarorum.com/gameuploader.html

Help Theother and the rest of the EB team track down those malignant character traits and give EB a healthy future!

It's the least a beta tester can do.

Written and spoken by Slartibardfast on behalf of the Magrathean EB beta testers association.

[JeffBag]

Just to make things clear, you want us to play the campaign, and when the enemy attacks with another reinforcement stack, we are to send the save of the turn before?

[Slartibardfast]

Just to make things clear, you want us to play the campaign, and when the enemy attacks with another reinforcement stack, we are to send the save of the turn before?

Save the game before choosing to fight on the battle map, for automatic resolution or to run from the battle.

As an afterthought it might be helpfull to the EB team to make a quick note of the traits picked up by your general if there is no CTD and add these as a readme.file to the compressed save file to be uploaded.

[JeffBag]

Save the game before choosing to fight or run from the battle.

Yes, I do already save on every turn. Rather, I was asking if the battle should be initiated by the AI or me, or if it doesn't matter.

I'm guessing it doesn't matter and you really just want a wide variety of conditions and situations to test on right?

[Oleo]

Ive uploaded two files:

no-ctd_heroic_double_reinforcement.rar

two roman armies (me) vs two epiros armies after a couple of turns in the game. no ctd after heroic victory.

ctd_siege_sweboz.rar

Sweboz (me) besieging casse town, attacked by relief force. ctd. No ctd with latest traits-file (with post-battle triggers disabled).

I hope its helpful.

p.s. Ive noticed reinforcementbattle never crashing on me in the first 0-15 turns. Not sure about the number of turns. I wonder if anyone else has ever had a reinforcement-ctd early in the game?

[Zastrow]

I've never experienced a re-inforcement CTD in my Carthaginian game that's ran till about 220 BCE. Nor one in my Ptolemaic campaign, sometimes I get random CTDs, but not really during battles or cause of them, usually its randomly after I complete a battle and I'm loading back up. They never repeat though.

[Bonny]

Yes, that is the Reinforcement CTD.

[paullus]

well, i've had several odds against reinforcement battles with heroic victories, two in one year, and no ctds. here are the traits my general gained:

ancillaries: famous warrior, heroic savior, shieldbearer

traits: great tactician, conquering hero, gifted leader

is that helpful at all?

[therother]

Yes. The more information the better. Can you remember the factions that were fighting the battle?

[paullus]

i was getai, enemy were epeirotes both times

the traits listed are the level attained after the second battle. lower levels were attained after the first, i don't remember what they were called.

[Slartibardfast]

Ive uploaded two files:

no-ctd_heroic_double_reinforcement.rar

two roman armies (me) vs two epiros armies after a couple of turns in the game. no ctd after heroic victory.

ctd_siege_sweboz.rar

Sweboz (me) besieging casse town, attacked by relief force. ctd. No ctd with latest traits-file (with post-battle triggers disabled).

I hope its helpful.

p.s. Ive noticed reinforcementbattle never crashing on me in the first 0-15 turns. Not sure about the number of turns. I wonder if anyone else has ever had a reinforcement-ctd early in the game?

Ole Olea!

We at the Magrathean EB beta Testers Association salute you.

Magickthighs especially is singing your praises while on duty within the hall of Deep Thought.

Lets see if the rest of you Humans can do the same and out do the massive outpouring of of CTD saves flodding in from the charatable people of Magrathea.

[Oleo]

Here (on the uploader) is one for you that might be interesting:

No_ctd_followed_by_ctd.rar

It includes two saves. In the first save I am laying siege to the last casse city (I am sweboz (1500+ man), their army (400+ man) outside the city (1000+ man) attacks me on their turn, I win the fight and there is no ctd.

The situation after their turn is the second save, I am still laying siege, with their armies decimated, I win the fight against the two 100+ armies and it ctds.

[paullus]

i had another large, odds against reinforcement battle w/o ctd ending in heroic victory. only traits i got this time around were "proud veteran" and "grizzled." actually, the character also got "security conscious" at the start of the next turn, but I don't know if that was related to the battle.

oddly enough, i did get a pre-battle ctd a couple of minutes ago. got ambushed by rebels, and it ctd'd. may have just been my comp, i haven't checked to see if its recurring.

[Oleo]

Ive got a save now me vs two armies each consisting of 1 group of belgae batacorii (sp?). It ctds. Do you want me to upload it?

[Foot]

Ive got a save now me vs two armies each consisting of 1 group of belgae batacorii (sp?). It ctds. Do you want me to upload it?

Yes, upload. The more the merrier.

Foot

[Oleo]

Uploaded as Belgae_2stack_ctd.rar.

The weird thing is that it only ctds when I attack the stack to the east. It doesnt ctd when attacking the stack to the northeast. The differences are:
1) the latter is a bridge battle, the former a regular battle.
2) Different captains as reinforcement and defender.

sweboz (1 stack, 3 generals) vs Eleutheroi (2 stacks, 2 units, 2 captains). Also no ctd with the post-battle triggers disabled and when auto-resolving.

[Oleo]

Am I the only one uploading?

I see 11 files, 8 of which are mine.

[Foot]

Don't worry, your games have been particularly useful, its allowed our scripters to do a lot of testing.

Foot

[Oleo]

I made an error with my last upload.

Its called: Patavium_end_turn_3vs1_noctd.rar

The save inside that file is actually a save after a 3 vs 1-battle that did not crash. Unfortunately I dont have a file of before that fight, I might however have trait and ancillary-information on my general. Edit: I dont have recent trait-info anymore.

Fortunately the file is not entirely useless. When attacking Patavium in that save it will crash on a 2 (general and captain) vs 1 (general) battle.

Don't worry, your games have been particularly useful, its allowed our scripters to do a lot of testing.

Foot

[Slartibardfast]

Don't worry, your games have been particularly useful, its allowed our scripters to do a lot of testing.

Foot

"Deep Thought" has returned from major repairs (2 weeks without a PC and no EB) and I was having a largely CTD free experience prior to this so I haven't uploaded any CTD saves for a while now.

Have the EB scriptors had much success in narrowing down the field of suspect Post Battle Traits?
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Oleo, well done mate! This appeal would of floundered without your consistent support.