[1.02] - Saved game showing the 'pioneer not expended bug' !

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Hi,

I think I nailed it!

 

Circumstances are that the AI first create an outpost with a pioneer, which is expended. This remove the colonization zone around (visually & for the player).

 

Two turns later, an hero with a pioneer settle in an un-settable area, just 2 tiles north of the outpost. Un-Settable? Perhaps not for the AI, remember before the outpost the tile was legit.

The settlement will show, once you click end turn, the same hero and pioneer. Why do I think this is the same pioneer and not an instant-built one (which is dubious but still...). Because the garrisoned pioneer is a level 2 pioneer! Only a fortress could have generated it, and our village could not have...

So this is him, the unconsumed pioneer. Perhaps something went wrong because the zone was semi legit and something broke in the code logic... 

 

My save is using a few mods, and in particular Heavenfall one. Don't take that as an excuse to not look at the save, Stardock, this is so important to fix it. :-)

 

http://www.mediafire.com/?vm8333o4lpu152l,b74alz178hc7e6h

 

The URL will point to the save (click end turn, you'll see the golem village created 2 tiles north of the golem outpost) plus my full mods folder, just unzip it and you are good for bug chasing :-)

 

Thanks in advance for the work.

 

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Good catch.  I suspect that this happens all the time but that players don't often get the chance to observe it. 

 

 

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

I see this happen all the time, I'm pretty sure it always happens if the pioneer is in an army with a champion. I don't know why they haven't caught it yet.

 

As for the outpost denial thing, when you build an outpost and creates a ZOC (or your own city ZOC grows out), it becomes unsettlable to other players, but YOU can still settle there. So the fact that he built an outpost and then settle nearby is actually normal I think.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Sooo? No feedback from the official team?

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

I tried the savegame, although I had to use all your mods, but ok, as you provided all of them ;)

The problem I see is that it is not in sight the place of the future settlement, so I can't affirm that there was no other pioneer there. Maybe if you provided the previous turn savegame, I could move the heroe closer, to be totally sure.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

yes, just unzip the full mods folder. I guess the devs can do that, it takes 2 mn.

 

As for not seeing properly the situation, you are supposed to use CTRL-U to remove FOW. Again, I think this is a given for the devs, to use that.

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

I forgot that of ctrl-U.

I will try once more once I arrive home, and tell you my impression.