[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#15873) loading a saved game starts all players in AI mode, even mine!

["Daniel Markstedt" <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15873 >

On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 15:38 -0700, Randy Kramer wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15873 >
> 
> On Monday 17 April 2006 04:24 pm, Jason Short wrote:
> > <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=15873 >
> >
> > I cannot reproduce this.  Perhaps giving more information will help.
> >
> > Also in the URL given for this ticket, I can find no information about
> > this problem.
> 
> 
> Somewhat related to this (maybe)--I notice (iirc) that some of my games are 
> saved with an "m" at the end (iirc) and some are not.  If I start one with an 
> "m" all is well.  If I start one without an "m", all of the players are in ai 
> mode, and the game plays automatically once started.
> 
> I assumed that the non-"m" games were a "feature" related to the ai--I 
> guessed 
> that the ai played one or a few turns ahead as part of its "intelligence", 
> and these non-"m" games were saved "relics" of that process.  (I don't have 
> the game open at the moment, I might even have the "m" and non-"m" games 
> confused, but one works normally, the other has all civs set to ai.)
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> Randy Kramer
> 


The 'm' stands for 'manual' - these are games you saved yourself, all
other are autosaves.

Now, this tells us that something is wrong with the autosave function.

-Daniel