Problem with User-created Maps and LAN Multiplayer Game

[0adler]

Hi,

Every time we play a multiplayer game with a skirmish map that we created with Atlas we are encountering a strange problem. Normal gameplay works perfect, there are no error messages. But if we save the game, and load it later to continue, the game comes up with a kind of default map. Also the AI-opponents are gone, but that could happen, because the now loaded map doesn't have the same number of players.

I did already quite some research, but cannot really find any solution for this problem. Am I the only affected, maybe because there is an error with the map or is this a known bug? What can I do? Please help, We love this game!

[Stan`]

Cc @phosit looks like a bug with MP saved games.

If the map doesnt have the same number of players though that's weird

[0adler]

Instead of the user map it just uses the map that is first in the list of skirmish maps, and that map happens to have just 2 players, not 4. So I guess it just uses the first two players, which are the human ones, the Petra-bot players 3 and 4 are jmaybe just dropped as there is no slut in the wrong map.

If it helps, I can provide the map files, too?

Thank you very much for your quick answer and of course for your work!

[Stan`]

Do you have the same mods loaded when you play the saved game ? Any errors ?

[0adler]

8 hours ago, Stan` said:

Do you have the same mods loaded when you play the saved game ? Any errors ?

Yes we used exactly same versions of 0ad mod (0.27.0) and community-mod (0.27.2). The game's version itself is on borth clients Build 14.07.20025 (release-a27.1, 6a576). The map was designed with the editor (Atlas) that comes with that version and was placed into %UserProfile%\Documents\My Games\0ad\mods\user\skirmishes\. Skirmish maps that come with 0ad work as expected, though. Strange that no one else came along with this problem. Besides it's a huge map.

[Stan`]

So that's user maps, mmh. Does that happen with community mod maps as well ?

[real_tabasco_sauce]

16 hours ago, Stan` said:

So that's user maps, mmh. Does that happen with community mod maps as well ?

There are no maps added by the community mod in version 0.27.2

[0adler]

18 minutes ago, real_tabasco_sauce said:

There are no maps added by the community mod in version 0.27.2

I didn't understand the question. I only see the difference between preinstalled and custom maps. The former work, but the user created don't. The strange ting was that there are no errors when playing the map and saving the game, but only if we load the gamesave the map is changed, but there seems to be no error that is reported. We even tried to host the game on both computers. 

Edited 8 hours ago by 0adler

[real_tabasco_sauce]

@0adler what's the filename of your map? Sure you could upload the map here. It seems more related to the savegame, so i wonder if filename got mishandled somehow.

[Stan`]

29 minutes ago, real_tabasco_sauce said:

There are no maps added by the community mod in version 0.27.2

Oh sorry I thought it was community-maps not community mod. My guess would be that something with mods messes the order. Could also be the persist match settings.

[0adler]

53 minutes ago, real_tabasco_sauce said:

@0adler what's the filename of your map? Sure you could upload the map here. It seems more related to the savegame, so i wonder if filename got mishandled somehow.

The filename is: subtropical_islands.xml

But I tried also with a map I called mediterranean.xml which had the same problem.

Edit: The Map is named "Subtropical Islands".

Edited 7 hours ago by 0adler