[.983] BUG - Casting Dispel Enchantment on my city is freezing and crashing my game

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An enemy AI cast three curse spells (I think) on my city. I don't know for sure because there appears to be no icon in my city list showing any curses cast on the city but I saw the spell when it was cast. I remember in previous versions, the city info screen showed curses which had been cast on the city. I only knew there were curses on my city because I saw the spell animation and when i go to city menu, it has a -1 initiative and -1 hp modifier on it so I know it is cursed but there is no icon showing me how many or what curses are on my city.

 

Anyway, I cast dispel enchantment and every time when I go to hit end turn, it just blackens out the turn button and doesn't end the turn. Then when I try to click on any button or anything, the game just crashes.

 

Screenshot of my city with no curse icons to show any curses placed on my city.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/iwvnh6eqo7hfvjg/FallenEnchantress_1349622339.jpg

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Well, I can't play because of this :( blah. My capitol city is hurting because of those curses and I can't dispel them, sigh.

 

Anyone else try to use dispel enchantment and had this problem>

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

No one has any experience with this? Guess I will have to just remove all curses from the xml for now.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

I tried a new game and just used relias and altar rather than a custom sov and I was able to cast dispel enchantment on my city but it was within the first 50 turns or so.

 

Perhaps since my other game is later and there are lots of towns and soldiers and such, a lot of memory is being used so it is getting messed up or something. Not really sure why that works but my other game it doesn't. 

 

Or perhaps it is different because there was no curse on my city to dispel. I modified dispel enchantment to work on any city anytime and made it available right away. Cast it and it worked fine but in my real game, there are three curses on my city so maybe that has something to do with it.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting BlackRainZ, reply 2
No one has any experience with this? Guess I will have to just remove all curses from the xml for now.

I never notice when my cities become cursed, so I have no experience with it.

Half of the OP might be right in the UI around city curses is terribly vague, sometimes I want to go check just to see if there is no curses at least.
That said I don't pay too close attention to the "City Details" window...
So to make me use dispel city, the game should first TELL ME when my city is cursed -.-

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Yeah, there used to be an icon and description of curses in the city details but it doesn't appear to be there anymore so you have to guess, which is stupid.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Could this have to do with a memory leak?

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting BlackRainZ, reply 7
Could this have to do with a memory leak?

Might be, meaby its because they changed the directory of where they put curses, but didn't change dispel magic, it could have a trillion causes... :)
I am always sad when Derek doesn't pay attention to stuff like this :S

Sincerely
~ Kongdej