Re: [Rails-devel] Saved game error

[Phil D. <de...@gm...>]

I don't especially remember if it was given that option or not...

It 'might' be that going past that point, then undoing to the treasury
trading stage might have made that step occur?  Since it won't be
checked and skipped when going in reverse??  I'm totally guessing
here...I'll try and recreate the scenario again and see what happens!

I managed to load up the saved file in the Eclipse debugger and got
the order stack displayed then worked through it manually from SR5.
How did you export the order stack to a text file?  This looks like it
would be useful for fixing these things in future, it took me longer
than necessary to work through it with the debugger but this is mainly
due to my unfamiliarity with Eclipse :p

Phil

On 17 February 2010 20:35, Erik Vos <eri...@xs...> wrote:
> Looking at the log, what seems to have happened at the end of OR 4.1 is the
> following:
>
> Dixie (pres. Simon) has just completed its first OR. So it wasn't allowed to
> do any share trading yet.
> However, the saved file contains 2 consecutive Done actions at the end of
> that turn.
> The first Done came after Dixie buying a train, and the second one (still by
> Simon) can only be explained if Dixie has incorrectly got the opportunity to
> trade shares. Can you remember if such a thing has happened?
>
> I cannot exclude your suggestion that using Undo/Redo might have disturbed
> things. Most likely Undo/Redo isn't perfect yet, although I'm not aware of
> any particular failure points. I just remember vaguely occasionally having
> seen misfits, sadly ignoring to investigate these...
>
> Anyway, after reloading this saved file you are left at the start of SR5.
> Can you reconstruct the game from there?
> I have attached a dump of the saved file, listing all its actions (#128 is
> the bad one). Perhaps that helps.
>
> Erik.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Davies [mailto:de...@gm...]
> Sent: Wednesday 17 February 2010 11:19
> To: Development list for Rails: an 18xx game
> Subject: [Rails-devel] Saved game error
>
> See attached saved game file
>
> We were through to OR 6.2 when I saved this (rails 1.1.3) and on
> reload it only plays through to SR5 before receiving an error.  I
> assume this is as a result of too much faffing with the undo button
> during play and the order stack not being saved correctly.
>
> I stupidly didn't save the game report separately for this game so I
> think we'll have to pick up again from here...a 'manual edit' mode for
> rails would be great to fix this situations, just allowing you to
> tweak things to the state they should be in (since I have screenshots
> of the current gamestate etc.) would be helpful when running into bugs
> likely this (I am fully aware this is by no means a small request ;))
>
> Phil
>
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