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Offline doomlord52

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Can't start a game with newest beta patch.
« on: May 17, 2013, 08:36:01 pm »
Somewhere in the last two beta patches, something happened that's totally broken the game.


This happens regardless of settings, seed, etc. If I simply hit "OK", it sends me back to the lobby, but the planets are set to be controlled by the AI, and it won't let me start (says it needs 2 available planets for the AI).
This happens on both my laptop and desktop, so I really don't know what's going on. Both ran fine - and still work without the beta patches (i.e. when I do a steam game cache check).
I have no idea what the error means or how to fix it, but the game is unplayable.
« Last Edit: May 17, 2013, 08:40:33 pm by doomlord52 »
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Offline keith.lamothe

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Re: Can't start a game with newest beta patch.
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2013, 08:44:55 pm »
Ouch, sorry about that.  You will probably need to uninstall, reinstall, and update again.  Sounds like you got some kind of odd interaction due to a particular sequence of updates, or a corrupted download, etc.

I'm testing a fresh install now to make sure that the normal update path isn't broken.
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Re: Can't start a game with newest beta patch.
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2013, 09:41:51 pm »
Ok, I just did a fresh install from steam, clicked the in-game update button and let it do its thing, checked that it said 6.029, and started a new game and it worked fine.  Given that and other folks currently playing on the latest beta, it's probably something gone awry with your install.  Please let me know if reinstalling doesn't fix it and I can try to think of some other suggestions.  Sorry about the trouble!
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Re: Can't start a game with newest beta patch.
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2013, 10:41:22 pm »
Alright, thanks. I'll give that a shot and let you know.

Not really sure what would have caused it to happen on both my computers though.
« Last Edit: May 17, 2013, 11:00:49 pm by doomlord52 »
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Re: Can't start a game with newest beta patch.
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2013, 11:00:21 pm »
Doing a clean re-install fixed it. Now to test this new AI...

Thanks!
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Re: Can't start a game with newest beta patch.
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2013, 11:05:16 pm »
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Not really sure what would have caused it to happen on both my computers though.
Yea, I'm not saying it's "on your end", per se, but that it's probably due to a specific sequence of which updates you got, etc, and thus not something that can really be fixed so much as undone, and then redone the right way, which it looks like has happened :)

Quote from: doomlord52 on May 17, 2013, 11:00:21 pm
Now to test this new AI...
You may find that the bugs were just trying to protect you from this fate ;)
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