"Game Over" when Victory Conditions are met

[HelloMiko]

Hello, I am struggling to find people who are knowledgeable about the game to help me with this issue.

I am playing the fantastic DWUR mod with the only the race specific victory conditions active and set to 100% as I like to be able to view them for RP purposes.

The problem is that when a race fulfills their conditions, I get a "Victory" screen with some stats and my empire is immediately deleted from the map. All colonies, all ships... I thought there was an option to continue the game.

I am looking at the Victory Conditions in the game setup and I keep trying to find what I'm missing... I have time limit unchecked... It is frustrating to spend 2-3 hours designing ships in pre-warp to have my empire deleted after a time.

I'm sure this is probably user error but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong and as I mentioned at the top, I'm struggling to find a community for this lovely game/mod

[jayman]

Hello, I am struggling to find people who are knowledgeable about the game to help me with this issue.

I am playing the fantastic DWUR mod with the only the race specific victory conditions active and set to 100% as I like to be able to view them for RP purposes.

The problem is that when a race fulfills their conditions, I get a "Victory" screen with some stats and my empire is immediately deleted from the map. All colonies, all ships... I thought there was an option to continue the game.

I am looking at the Victory Conditions in the game setup and I keep trying to find what I'm missing... I have time limit unchecked... It is frustrating to spend 2-3 hours designing ships in pre-warp to have my empire deleted after a time.

I'm sure this is probably user error but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong and as I mentioned at the top, I'm struggling to find a community for this lovely game/mod

What size map are you playing on? Small maps don't give you a lot of room to expand, and 1/3rd of them isn't a lot. I tend to play on the largest map possible in DWUR. My set-up is:

custom game as standard empire, 2000 stars, 15x15 grid, few pirates, irregular galaxy (more random than a spiral), human empire on the edge of the galaxy, only five or six rival empires, just race-specific victory conditions and events (no Shakuri or Shadows), victory conditions only apply after 99 years.

Games can go on for weeks with that set-up, albeit only playing a few hours a day.

[HelloMiko]

I was playing on 1400 stars with what I think was a 15x15 grid... or maybe 10x10... with 19 other empires.

I am not that bothered if I win or not, I just like to view my progress from time to time which is why I put that victory condition on.

...but I thought we was allowed to continue after a race achieved victory. In my game, I get the screen where a race has won, then all my ships, planets and bases are immediately deleted... is this normal?

I suppose I could uncheck all victory conditions so my game doesn't end but as I said, I like to look at the stats from time to time.

[jayman]

I was playing on 1400 stars with what I think was a 15x15 grid... or maybe 10x10... with 19 other empires.

I am not that bothered if I win or not, I just like to view my progress from time to time which is why I put that victory condition on.

...but I thought we was allowed to continue after a race achieved victory. In my game, I get the screen where a race has won, then all my ships, planets and bases are immediately deleted... is this normal?

I suppose I could uncheck all victory conditions so my game doesn't end but as I said, I like to look at the stats from time to time.

I'm sorry, I have no idea on that as it's never happened to me. Maybe a more knowledgeable player can help, but as this board is like tumbleweeds most of the time it might be a long wait for the answer!

[HelloMiko]

No worries, thank you for your reply.

It really does feel like wandering in the wilderness trying to find experts on this dusty old gem of a game