Range Check - any way around....

[zen.]

I know I'm resurrecting ancient threads here, but I just encountered an RCE with the Colonials and Darloks after 59(!) turns. Looking through the design names, there was a blank line at the end of both design name files. In addition (probably minor, but...), a lot of the names in the Colonials.txt file had a space after them, and there were a few duplicates. I haven't tested the next turn yet (I worked around it Last turn with player-control) though.

zen

[Kadste]

Jason2

Always save your game, every turn, so if you have any problems, you can recover without wasting any turns. Always save just before ending your turn.

When I get an RCE, for any AI race, I always restart the game, resume with your turn and just before ending your turn go to the options menu then to players. Set the AI to human control. End your turn and let the computer process to the AI turn and let the computer process all the movements, etc... When done just end the AI turn. This has worked for me all the time. If some think that this is not fair, oh well. I am struggling to remain in 6th place with the Darlok, EA, Norak way ahead. (3 to 4 times bigger than me). I get a lot of RCE's, but they seem to happen to the races that have a lot of ships, planets, units... I do not want to end my game ( am 300+ turns in) as it is the first game that I find really challenging.

[capnq]

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Always save your game, every turn, so if you have any problems, you can recover without wasting any turns. Always save just before ending your turn.

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If you set up the game to autosave, at what point in the turn does it save?

I tend to save manually after I've done a batch of new ship designs or upgrades, as well.

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Cap'n Q

[Jourin]

I also had a problem with some corrupted files where spaces had the end of the line were causing problems, so you might be on the right track.