We need some researchers

Ninot · July 19, 2002, 23:22

i wanna find out if people with 1.29 can send copy's of their demo sav to people who stil have 1.21

IF the sav can go between the two versions safely, then we wont have to worry about people waiting to upgrade....

but to keep so many NA's on 1.21 needlessly would be dumb, so i wanna know IF we can start going over to 1.29 yet safely.

Jonny · July 19, 2002, 23:41

Here's a save of the game that I have opened and resaved with version 1.29. Someone with 1.21 try to open it and see if it works.

Ninot · July 19, 2002, 23:46

what we specifically need is to find out if some euro-players can open it up with their version of 1.21, that would be the major hurdle

but im gonna test your 1.29er out

Ninot · July 19, 2002, 23:51

I got an instant error

Jonny · July 19, 2002, 23:52

Darn.

Aro · July 19, 2002, 23:59

Jonny and Ninot
I did the same. When I tried to open the new sav in my laptop, with 1.21, I got an instant error, too.

Kramerman · July 20, 2002, 00:03

perhaps we should have a poll to see the spread of our population who have different versions of the game. This would be useful for hgelping to find a solution to this problem as feedback comes in about peoples' experimentations with the new patch and their old saves. I've tried looking for all the different versions of the game that have been made, in order to help facilitate making this poll, but I haven't found any good source of info yet. Im sure one of our more technical members would know this info though, so no problemo

Kman

Aro · July 20, 2002, 00:29

The poll will be fine, but meanwhile Mr. Ninot and his cabinet can't upgrade untill everybody do it. They must still running the game with 1.21

BTW, I doubt everybody goes to upgrade. Not everybody approved , I was just reading the posts in the thread about 1.29.

Ninot · July 20, 2002, 00:34

we already had a poll didnt we? and most said "no" if we cant keep our Euro friends.

Kramerman · July 20, 2002, 00:51

Quote:

Originally posted by Ninot
we already had a poll didnt we? and most said "no" if we cant keep our Euro friends.

I mean a poll to see what version of the game our citizens have (i.e. english, french, german, etc), not if they want to keep playing if the Euros cant. That poll you are refering to probably has already been done, though I never saw it.

Inverse Icarus · July 20, 2002, 00:52

i say the president has to have 1.21. a prerequisite for office.

Aggie · July 20, 2002, 00:57

I saw somewhere else in another forum, that strange results might happen if you use a 1.21 save game with 1.29, so I suggest this not be done for any of the "official" saves.
Aggie

FrostyBoy · July 20, 2002, 02:35

damn damn damn

I'll have to wait till the end of my turn as FAM or if I resign (which I won't do)

notyoueither · July 20, 2002, 03:41

The sav not going back is to be expected, however it is not a huge issue. Most of 1.29 is the editor and more options there.

Either we all go 1.29 or we mostly stay. Most comments based on 1.29 will be invalid for 1.21. For instance, tech trades with the AI (they will cost more to buy with 29).

A word of caution though. Soren said that results of a 21 game continued with 29 could be unpredictable as far as research and tech trading are concerned.

However, given the smoothness of overall transition, maybe we should all go 29.