[Beta 2][Bug/Interface] End Turn unclickable - Showstopper

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Summary: After loading the bbb save file (see below) and ending the turn, the end-turn button can no longer be interacted with.

 

Severity: A (Showstopper)

 

Steps to Reproduce:

 

1.) Download the bbb save file from My Dropbox

2.) Start Elemental

3.) Load the save game

4.) When the game begins click the end-turn button

5.) Attempt to end the turn again

 

Results:

The end turn button is grayed-out and can no longer be selected.

 

Expected Results:

You should either always be able to end your turn, or have a reason appear as to why you cannot.

 

Important Additional Information:

This issue did not occur originally when loading a game. It appeared after starting a new game, and I discovered it could be reproduced by loading the save which was made after the issue occurred.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Just had the same thing happen.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Same issue.  Here's a save.  

I tried once re-loading latest autosave and playing a slightly different set of actions.  Still it lead to an un-endable turn.

 

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8021058/noTurnAdvance.rar

Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

yup add me to the list - spent all day playing to turn 356 and then suddenly unable to click the end turn button and using 'enter' does nothing as well - just thought it was some sort of turn limit!

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

same happened to me

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

I could solve this by just saving and relaoding when I had a grayed out turn button.

Anyhow this is a think which should not happen.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

I failed as a tester and forgot to create a save of this situation :( It happened to me too. The only thing that was out of the ordinary I think was that one NPC kingdom killed another on that turn. I am not 100% sure this caused it though. It was in the 300s turns somewhere.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Sparhawk4242, reply 5
I could solve this by just saving and relaoding when I had a grayed out turn button.

Anyhow this is a think which should not happen.
End of Sparhawk4242's quote

 

Same issue, for ALL save games (4 total).  Game save file available if desired (appears have enough). Note COULD NOT use work-around noted above as did not work for me.  In effect, all Save Games Fatal Crash and would have to start new game to continue.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

same things happened to me, if i use the autosave same thing happens, though if i use the 'previous autosave' autosave, and make sure i don't follow the exact last couple of moves, i can avoid it and get around

seems to happen when i spam a number of turns close together without doing much (read anything:P)

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

Also happened to me.

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Gwakamoli, reply 8
same things happened to me, if i use the autosave same thing happens, though if i use the 'previous autosave' autosave, and make sure i don't follow the exact last couple of moves, i can avoid it and get around

seems to happen when i spam a number of turns close together without doing much (read anything:P)
End of Gwakamoli's quote

Nope-- still no love with the second AutoSave.  Turn differential for me was turn 111 versus my own save at 118.  All save games are fragged.

Reply #11 from Elemental Forums Top

Just another chime in that it's happening here too.  Not consistently, but once it starts, it seems to keep going.  I can exit and reload and sometimes get in another couple of turns, but it always happens again within the next 20-30 turns or so.

Reply #12 from Elemental Forums Top

I too have this trubble, at ca turn 84, the end turn button greyed out, tried a save at turn 81, it greyed out end turn after cliking it, same whit autosave.

Reply #13 from Elemental Forums Top

Same problem. I saved, restarted game and then loaded. Then I could play one more turn before the problem occured again.

Reply #14 from Elemental Forums Top

This may be a red herring, but I noticed that it seems to start happening when I start getting non-whole numbers of gold.  IE, I just built something that gives me +25% gold, so now I'm getting 12.5 gold per turn (or whatever).  Tried to duplicate and was moderately successful - the end turn thing started happening about 15 turns after I started getting a fractional amount of gold per turn.  More testing from others would be awesome.

Reply #15 from Elemental Forums Top

happens every time i reload a game, which make saving pointless and combined with the inevitable out of memory crash after some hours it makes the testing a bit tedious.

Reply #16 from Elemental Forums Top

Same here, nothing help yet to avoid, reminds me old good days with MoM hanging up and turn cant be finished o_O

Reply #17 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Del137, reply 16
Same here, nothing help yet to avoid, reminds me old good days with MoM hanging up and turn cant be finished
End of Del137's quote

That's exactly how it is supposed to funtion, the hidden MoM gameplay repproduction features are enabled.  It's not a bug, it's a feature!

 

Seriously, I have the same problem, I'll start a new one and make sure not to build the percentage to see if that changes anything, but I don't think it's related since mine had been up for so long.

Reply #18 from Elemental Forums Top

I think I may have just disproved my own theory.  I'm 150+ turns after my gold just went into decimal increments.  Hooray for misleading coincidence!

Reply #19 from Elemental Forums Top

I don't know if this is coincidence since I didn't notice prior to the bug appearing, but I had something like 11,000 spell points when it bugged. Also I noticed when I reload the saved game and then try and end again a small scroll like window appears for a fraction of a second in the top left of the screen. Happens every time it bugs out.

Reply #21 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting dsk2293, reply 13
Same problem. I saved, restarted game and then loaded. Then I could play one more turn before the problem occured again.
End of dsk2293's quote

Yea that was my case as well.

Reply #22 from Elemental Forums Top

Same happened to me and ruined my game.  Unfortunately for me my autosave happened right before this and reloading that or the save I made when it happened didn't fix it.  This was turn 336 so it was pretty painful (yes I know it's a beta so I'll stop compaining).  Just hope this is fixed soon as this is worse than a regular crash.

One odd thing I noticed is that when I quit the game I had a unit training dialog up in the main menu.  I didn't see this behavior on reloads though.  Not sure if that's helpful.

Reply #23 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting WhiteWolf1144, reply 21

Quoting dsk2293, reply 13Same problem. I saved, restarted game and then loaded. Then I could play one more turn before the problem occured again.

End of WhiteWolf1144's quote

I have the same problem. I have some save game from few turns before and when I continue this save game I can play for few more turns 5-10 and than problem occurs again. 

Reply #24 from Elemental Forums Top

I've gotten the problem, too.  I saved the game and the first time I reloaded it, I was able to hit the end turn once, but then it got "stuck" again.  But now, when I try to load that same save file, it won't load anymore and hangs at the "creating world" screen.

I still have the save if you want it, but it seems like you guys have enough now.

Reply #25 from Elemental Forums Top

Just adding another "same here" to the thread. I can send in my save file if necessary, just let me know. As mentioned above, I can start at a previous save or the autosave and get a few turns before it happens again.