Re: [Freeciv] restarting a saved game

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ryan p bobko wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> How do you reconnect to a game you are restarting from a saved file?
> 
> For example, I start the server on my machine (I'm playing with
> AI opponents only), and then connect with the client. When I restart the
> game later with civserver -f civgame1.sav and try to connect with the
> client, I'm told the game is full and I cannot play. How do I get around
> this?


        This one got me as well. It took awhile to figure this out. 
After starting the server ("civserver -f gamefile"), you run
civclient with the -name option.  The name used is the name of
your player in the game, so if I started a game playing the Romans
with their standard leader name of 'Caesar', I would run
"civclient -name Caesar" to attach, then run "start" on the
server.


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Ed C.