[Freeciv-Dev] Re: savegames don't maintain state

[Christian Knoke <chrisk@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 12:32:32AM -0600, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> it seems that savegames aren't maintaining game state (despite the
> railroad fix I just committed)
> 
> to reproduce:
> 
> 1. run your favorite autogame with saveturns=1
> 2. pick a random savegame, and back up the next couple of incremented 
>    savegames after that one.
> 3. load that savegame and start it.
> 4. compare the savegames from the 2nd run to the 1st run. Note that they
>    are different.
> 
> why? not certain. someone else can probably shed more light on this than
> I. From the differences, I surmise that we are not loading the game
> state in the same place that we saved it---we're not screwing up the save
> process itself---and the ai is getting to move around, increase city
> size whatever, and we're not getting to see it.

There were complaints about this before on the list. Though you
are working on the AI quite a lot, I think the reason is still
that some AI action takes place when you load a savegame; - if
you don't interrupt (save/reload) the game, these actions are a
bit delayed. This relates things like autoattack.

You won't ask me for source code references ... :)

> PS: why is it that I never see any saved goto routes? Have I just not
> looked at enough savegames?

Christian

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