[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Randomness restoring after loading a saved game

[Christian Knoke <ChrisK@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:59:05AM +0100, Petr Baudis wrote:
> 
>   I have weird problem with loading of a save game. When I ran an autogame 
> with
> both original and my version of AI, and it started to differ around year 
> +1000,
> I thought I will be able to just reload the saved games from year +0800, turn
> on debug logging and happily hunt the problem down. However, when I will just
> load the saved game at year +0800 and start it, in year +1000 it is different
> than old saved game in year +1000 (both obviously ran with same civserver).  
> As
> one of the things which differ is random state, it looks to me that it is
> either not restored correctly or there is different count of myrand() calling.
> Is this a known issue? Can anyone please help me to find the problem?

I know from playing, that if I reload a saved game, the AI sometimes
starts fighting against my units. This happens after (re)start, before
it's on me to move. There seems to be a partial AI phase after start,
that would mean that save and load is not exactly at the same time.

HTH,

Christian

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