Would today's (Feb 23rd) patch invalidate savegames?

I think there should be no problems if you are updating from 1.20.085 since there is only one file that is updated and it is the file with galactic achievement.

Call me paranoid, but it is a wise rule to play a game complete under one version before going to another. Some of us old timers had a ton of problems with trying to make cross-saved files work back when, so we don't try that anymore.

That's exactly what I thought. I updated it and then tried to replay my endgame save. In about half of my planets, all improvements had disappeared. Even soil enhancement on Sol (which I am pretty sure I built). Now, the only thing that I did is to install the latest 1.2 update (I already had the original 1.2).
I managed to finish the game, but only because there were very few turns left. Otherwise with all those morale 1 planets, the I-League would have had an incredible succes...

I am wondering how a such thing could happen .
Looks like something is broken when parsing files and saving games. Maybe ids are saved instead of codes.
That the only thing that could make sense.

I never had that kind of problem before, but I usually finish a geme before updating.
That exemple was from an AP game, but they do use the same files (apparently, since with the 1.2 update, suddenly AP had the logisitics tech as well - though no update to it was made).
I'm not sure which of the improvements have been cancelled: soil & habitat improvement, banking center, fusion & antimatter power plants, etc all gone. Shipyards too. And I couldn't see my trade good anymore either.
It was a grave act of sabotage from the altarian special forces. The retaliation came fast, under the appearence of a terror star that took care of their last system.


Next time, I'll know better than update right away...

That must be something like that: since they added new wonders, maybe my saved game data didn't correspond to the new improvments id, thus their disappearence. Maybe :notsure:

Ugh...

Yes, the improvements of all kinds are saved by IDs, rather than by name.   So that accounts for people's save games getting messed up.  I didn't even think of it to warn you guys because I didn't actually change the code.

Hi CariElf.
Once more great job with the game.



It's not a big issue. I think we've all been warned many times to finish a game before updating. it is the first time I run into this, but since it was only for a few turns it was playable. I thought that since the war was going on for a long time, people actually took to the streets and started setting buildings and stuff on fire ( )!
It was just strange that Carinoids would start building all the wonders that i had built! Maybe they were behind these riots on my planets! LOL .

But since in the end I still won, like I said, for me, it was no big deal.

Yeah good job with the game...but one thing....why when you just get out of a recession one turn later your back in? thats kinda annoying...

Hey Icevic! Stop by the Empire forum sometime. Here is a link. http://www.galciv.com/forum.asp?BID=GE&id=130416#142200

Too bad that a correspondance table, with the id used in the save game and the corresponding code, wasn't in the savegame. It could have helped.