Long Solo Game Bail Out Problem

[Reyals_63]

During a long solo game generated on the Glory Map. I developed a error that was posted in the stderr file:

N�got gick fel!
no space left on bg

Does anyone have any ideas and/or a workaround perhaps. I was rather enjoying this game at the time and would like to finish.

Thanks!

[Ironhawk]

No space left on bg... background? If thats what it is, its strange. Exactly how long did your game run? Could you have reached a hard limit on units or something? I know there was one in dom2

[Loren]

I've hit this before. Workaround: Don't take as many troops into battle.

[Kalin]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a battle where both sides have 1000+ troops that is causing this error. The problem is that there is not enough space on the battlefield to place all the units. Sometimes, if you're using very large creatures, you only need a third of those numbers.

The solution, is to bring one of two throw away mages, and cast something like Gift from Heaven on their army...

[Gandalf Parker]

I wish it would continue the battle anyway and just blow up on trying to watch the combat. It seems like the battlefield size shouldnt affect getting the outcome.

Of course fixing the whole thing would be better but as a stopgap I wouldnt mind a battle response without view option so that the game could continue.

[Graeme Dice]

Gandalf Parker said:
I wish it would continue the battle anyway and just blow up on trying to watch the combat. It seems like the battlefield size shouldnt affect getting the outcome.

This betrays a fundamental ignorance of the method that is used to obtain battlefield results in Dominions. The battlefield size affects the outcome since the turn generation performs an identical set of calculations to the battle viewer part of the program.

[Nightblade]

The maximum battle i had in a end game situation , being LA Ermor on the Aran map, was +/- 2400 undeads (lead by a -very- lots of non-magic users commanders, so there were no summons adding to the number during the battle) storming a castle protected by a pretender and a magic user with their +/- 10 remaining militia.

After clicking the turn button, i worried if wanting to assault with such huge number of troops could make the game calculation to be stuck on my not very high end system, especially with the castle taking some places.
Fortunately it played and ended correctly and viewing worked after.

So does a crash related to the amount of troops can happen only if -both- sides are very numerous ?

[Loren]

Nightblade said:
The maximum battle i had in a end game situation , being LA Ermor on the Aran map, was +/- 2400 undeads (lead by a -very- lots of non-magic users commanders, so there were no summons adding to the number during the battle) storming a castle protected by a pretender and a magic user with their +/- 10 remaining militia.

After clicking the turn button, i worried if wanting to assault with such huge number of troops could make the game calculation to be stuck on my not very high end system, especially with the castle taking some places.
Fortunately it played and ended correctly and viewing worked after.

So does a crash related to the amount of troops can happen only if -both- sides are very numerous ?

I have had a crash with something in the ballpark of 1000 troops against a castle that didn't contain much of anything. However, my troops were minotaurs, they took up more space.

I don't think it's the number of troops but rather the numbers of squares on the battle board. Exceed that and boom.

[PvK]

I think they should make the battlefield grids larger for enormous combats, and/or just exclude some of the groups that don't fit from participating, or have multiple combats per province per turn.