PBW Problem - Combat Replay

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
This may just be a typo, but your error Messages is looking for a file called survivors while you extracted files called survivor without the 's'

Quite right it was a typo...

[tbontob]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
All save games should be in the save directory.... If you create additonal directories off the root of save you will see this error. I had that happen for months since i like to directory everything... and no since i store all saves and related files in the root save directory this problem has gone away..

Try it and see if it works

Hmmm... not sure what you mean by directory. You are talking to a Mac user of 20 years where our terms are somewhat different.

All my games are saved in c:\My Games\Space Empires IV Gold\NAME OF GAME FILE. "NAME OF GAME FILE" are a number of files including "savegame" and "Survivors 2".

In other words the path to "savegame" would be c:\My Games\Space Empires IV Gold\savegame and the path to "Survivors 2" would be c:\My Games\Space Empires IV Gold\Survivors 2

I don't think this is significant but in the warning, some of the words are not capitalized whereas in the path to the file, they are.

[Grandpa Kim]

tbontob said:

In other words the path to "savegame" would be c:\My Games\Space Empires IV Gold\savegame and the path to "Survivors 2" would be c:\My Games\Space Empires IV Gold\Survivors 2

Okay, chuck the "Survivor 2" folder and just unzip to the "savegame" folder. Even if you have a dozen games in there and it looks cluttered, each game's files will be led off with the game name, so they should all be grouped together. Like Puke, I've had movement log problems, but not this; still, I think this will clear up your problem.

Kim

[tbontob]

Actually I did that when I discribed my problem in the first message of this thread.

I normally play from a "Survivors 2" file. Tried clearing the "savegame" file, saving the zip file to it, extracting the files from the zip file and loading the game from it. Same problem.

This is really puzzling me.

[tesco samoa]

\Space Empires IV Gold\Savegame

is where i drop all my save games

before i had

\Space Empires IV Gold\Savegame\game1
\Space Empires IV Gold\Savegame\game12

etc..
and i had the combat problems

For movement problems... you have to have the previous turn opened on that computer.

IE... if you play a turn at work and then a turn at home make sure you open the turn from home next day at work...and then save it... And then open the current turn....

Hope that helps... ( thanks geo for the movement log solution )

[tbontob]

Many thanx tesco

Your reply gave me an idea.

Unzipping the compressed file gives me the file

Survivor 2rd1_14

Then I copied all the files out of Survivor 2rd1_14 to "savegame" directly.

And it worked!

I would think that the program would look for the combat file in the same Survivor 2rd1_14 folder where it found the data for the turn. But apparently it doesn't.

It is a workaround which works but is kinda messy.

Does anyone have a better solution?

[ September 11, 2002, 20:10: Message edited by: tbontob ]

[Wardad]

I keep a seperate folder for each PBW game. I then use the MOD Launcher utility to start SEIV and load the game.

The advantages are: I do not change the stock SEIV data, empire, or race picture files.
So I can play different MODs without them conflicting with each other. The MOD launcher remembers your Player number and password. My PBW game folders are easy to maintain. Since I have more than one SE4 Version on my machine, I can upgrade the game by simply dragging the game folder over to the newer SE4 Versions folder.

I have a seperate MODlauncher in each SE4 Version folder.

I'm not at home so I can not give you all of the details of the game folder.
1. It has a savegame folder
2. It may have a picture/race etc.. folders for the custom shipsets.
Note: There is no need to copy the stock shipsets.
3. It may have a data folder or other folders needed for a MOD.
4. Since it is PBW and your not the host, you will likely not need the Empire folder or the custom RACE AI that comes with custom shipset.
5. Good Idea to keep a text file with your password, and other players names, emails, empire names, and shipsets.

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OK, now to get my ZIP files open into the save game folder...
(setup is WIN98 + WINZIP + MOD Launcher)

...Warning ...start QS9000 procedure...
1. Save attachment game.zip to desktop.
2. Open Save game folder
2a. Right click on MOD Launcher Icon
2b. Click on Properties.
2c. Click on Find Target. It opens a folder window.
2d. Now close the MOD launcher properties window before you do something wrong to it.
2e. open the game folder
2f. open the the savegame folder.
3. Drag the game.zip file into the savegame folder.
4. Right click on the game.zip file and select "extract to".
5. Click on "browse"
6. click on OK
7. click on Extract
8. click on ALL to overwrite all old files.
9. Now you can left click on the MOD Launcher.

As with all QS9000 procedures, explanations and warnings are not allowed and you must follow the instructions explicitly. If it does not work with your setup then you must blindly follow the QS9000 winzip setup procedure MX2233874.BFG...

[ September 11, 2002, 21:15: Message edited by: Wardad ]