[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#3621) Freeciv 1.14.0 Changes Nations in Saved Games

["Raimar Falke" <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 01:47:09PM -0800, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 01:57:34PM -0800, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:59:34AM -0800, freeciv-dev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > In when a game is saves in version 1.14.0 and loaded later, some of
> > > players may find that they are a different nation than they were when
> > > the game was saved.  (E.g., the Koreans may become Dutch or Bavarian.)
> > > 
> > > No action is need to produce this other that to save the game, stop the
> > > server, and then resart using the -f flag.  However, nations near the
> > > beginning of the list seem less likely to change.
> > > 
> > > (I've noticed that not all nations are included every time -- could it
> > > be that as different nations set are selected by the server that some
> > > nations are replaced or else displaced up or down the list?)
> > 
> > This is a known issue. It was reported by ESR (who also wrote the
> > patch which caused this problem) at the end of January. No solution or
> > patch was proposed yet.
> 
> I don't know, The nation ordering (and naming) changes were made subsequent
> to this and I can't reproduce the problem with the latest CVS-stable 
> (though I haven't tried really hard). Looking at the code (which was the 
> same as before, yields no insights. You're quite sure this is 1.14.0 code?
> 
> Could you send us initial conditions (rand seed, etc) that will reproduce
> this?

Save a game with 1.14.0 and load it with the CVS version. Since the
savegame only contains the nation ids and these got reordered you end
up with different nations.

        Raimar

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