Issue: The skirmish menu is bugged have a hidden AI shown in all games I play. Furthermore I cannot age up to age 2 as the icon is not shown and if I use the shortcut it shows me the layout for minor gods but it doesnt allow me to select one. It seems that the lobby settings, including the hidden ones are corrupted or set to bad values. If you load another game it seems to fix the hidden AI issue. Overall it’s very unstable once we enter this game state and doesn’t affect the multiplayer “browse game” hosting.
This is the issue first flagged but I investigated it and found extra information:
link to ui bug in skirmish
Once you click the shortcut for age up you are greeted with placeholder minor god layout that have no image or function even with 500 food in bank:
Overall, a savegame crashing, corrupts the skirmish lobby to a unstable state. Persistance variable for the skirmish lobby might be a cause as reinstallation seems to not affect this issue but reloading a savegame fix some of it. Deleting the persistance file might fix it.
Trigger Event:
It started happening when I hosted a savegame in multiplayer and it crashed on loading. Loading a savegame seems to recover the UI part but I’m still not able to age up in age 2 with it.
Repro Steps:
- (unsure) fail to load a savegame.
- go in skirmish and see all the settings messed up, select 2 player and see no AI.
- select 12 player, you will see only 11 AI/player instead of 12.
- go back to 2 players, it will sometimes shows the AI correctly or not.
- Start game, you will have an AI in the game if no AI is shown, if an AI was shown you will have 2 AIs in game.
- Observe that you don’t have the possibility to age up (might be civilization specific or crashed savegame specific? Aka the save game that failed to load was in age3 thus start thinking it is age 3 thus prevent you to age to second age possibly?)
- load any save game
- Observe the hidden AI is fixed but the age up options to age 2 is still bugged…