[Bug] City completely disappears after tactical combat

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It happened to me roughly 5 times since I have played the Beta. After tactical combat is finished in a totally different place away from the city, the city simply disappeared from the game like it never existed. I dug a little deeper and tried different options, I found out that it only happens when I actively do the fighting, but when I use the auto resolve or the auto play option the city does not disappear after combat. I have a savegame before I do the butcherman quest and I made a savegame after the fighting with my city gone. The bug is reproduceable every time from the former savegame. I am happy to provide them, just tell me how.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

e-mail them to me at [email protected] and I'll have someone look at it. So specifically they have to do the butcherman quest to make it disappear?  or any tactical combat in the save?

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

no, it only happens after fighting the butchermen in the butcherman's lair for the Heirloom quest and as long as I am not using auto resolve or auto play. I continued playing in the save after using auto resolve so that the city remains and the bug never occured again.

Could you please tell me where to find the savegames? I had a look in my FE Beta folder but can't seem to find them.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

They are in "C:\Users\*Username*\My Documents\My Games\FallenEnchantress\Saves".  If you play in a standard account and then run using administrator privileges, then the Username will be that of the Admin account you used the password of (took me a while to realise that ;-)).

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

found them, thank you. I will send the email in a couple of minutes.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Have had a city disappearing on me 3 times over the last game I played - so I don't think it is related to that specific quest. However, it could be related to fighting butchermen (or not) - I didn't really notice. Note the behaviour I saw was that a stationed unit would be left behind after the city.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Is there a city icon in your city list to the left of the screen? There's a bug that's been around since early WoM that causes some or all of the buildings in a city to become invisible randomly, it's usually corrected by building something else in the city which can usually be done by selecting the city from your city list if it's become totally invisible. I've already seen this happen a few times in FE so it hasn't been fixed yet. If it's gone from your list too though than ignore this, that would be one I've not seen yet myself.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

It not only completely disappears in the game world (not just the buildings), but it also vanishes in the icon list. It's really like there is no city at all, because all the benefits the city provides (i.e. research) is also lost.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

ok, it happened again on the same savegame when I was fighting some spiders. It seems that the root of the problem is not the Heirloom quest and the butchermen as Ihfacny rightly stated in reply #5, but it is a general problem with tactical combat.

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

Had this bug crop up in several games over the last few days. It doesn't seem to be tied to any particular quest, but it does seem like it happens most frequently when conquering an enemy city.

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

In my case, the combat was not related to fighting in a quest.

1. Destroyed an enemey outpost near my borders,my city  dissapeared.

2. Reloaded previous save. Instead of destroying outpost, I attacked some trolls, same result, my city dissapeared.

3. Reloaded again, didn't attack anything, and my city remained. Later, I took over an enemy city, nowhere near my dissapearing city. My city dissapeared again anyway.

After the 3rd dissaperance, I also happened to notice that the tile where my city dissapeared from no longer had the food/material resources.

Here is the link to my seperate thread, which has my save game, debug, screen shots, etc. Figured I'd post it here as well, since this is the largest thread with the same issue.

 

https://forums.elementalgame.com/416860