save/load doesn't work properly

Saving and loading doesn't work properly.

Reproducible with:
skirmish game, 1 human vs 1 basic or novice AI


What seems to work:
-units and buildings loaded
-AI is loaded

What doesn't work:
-building build queues. These are altered and the queues and multiplied by about 5 times on load. For eg building 5 of one unit, 1 of another, 1 of yet another, will result in building 25 of the first then 1 of another, and 1 of yet another on load. Ie. 5 gets changed to 25 on load
-building repeat flag is reset. A building on repeat when the game is saved, is loaded without repeat on
-player colour for shields changes to a random colour every time the game is loaded. This might be the same as player colour changing, not sure, but it's really noticeable on shield colour
-caretakers don't assist anymore after loading game. To fix you have to manually select all caretakers and issue a guard order on an empty piece of land



Please fix save and load. It's so close to working perfectly. I use this feature all the time in skirmish and multiplayer. I like having long games that I come back to over several days/play sessions.

Thanks! :)

I tried to be as detailed as possible to make it easier to track down and fix the issues.

is this supposed to all work with save/load restoring all these settings?

Thanks for the quick fixes. I'll check them out and see how they work.

For the shields, are you talking about the colour issue I reported here or the other issue with the shield areas disappearing and corrupting saves? If it's the colour changing, they literally change every load to different colours, not just red. Can you also fix the other issue I reported with shields disappearing and corrupting saves?

I haven't observed the shield colour randomization myself, so I can't tell what causes it or how to fix at present. We'll see if anyone else reports it and I can narrow it down at the time.

Control groups are on the todo

For the shield disappearance issue, we'll need an infolog (and perhaps a replay) from the game session where the shields fail (not from after loading the broken save).

details for shield not working are in here: http://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/25091?postID=183126
I also posted a bug through the app as I mentioned, which you should already have.

I ran a game for 1 hour and didn't see a shield failure, but the save failed due to a memory-related error. Made an issue.