MWIF crashes on complete conquest - 5.0.0.1

[eouellet]

After Albania is conquered, the new home for Italy established several turns before, once in the Conquest phase, after allocating the remaining ships, MWIF crashes. See attached gamesave.

[Centuur]

Fatal bug.

[rkr1958]

After Albania is conquered, the new home for Italy established several turns before, once in the Conquest phase, after allocating the remaining ships, MWIF crashes. See attached gamesave.

Fatal bug.

Personally, and I do hope I wrong, I don't think we'll see a fix for this anytime soon, if ever. For that matter, I don't believe we'll see a fix for anything else in the near future, if ever. I personally feel as a community we're on our own now. I hope I'm wrong but regardless I think we have the expertise in this community to get around such fatal bugs and continue.

If I were in your situation and wanted to continue the game this is what I would do.

(1) Edit the game file prior to conquest to move any allied units in Tirana somewhere else.
(2) Change control of Tirana back from allied to Italian. That way Albania won't be conquered.
(3) "House Rule" the conquest of Albania.
(4) You could even allocate ships in the next allied impulse as happened by flipping and moving those ships prior to conquest, which will never happen now, to the appropriate allied port. Then have an allied land unit overrun and capture the naval units.
(5) I know it sounds complicated, but this would be my work around to continue a game that I've invested such time in, played in 1945 and wish to continue.

[eouellet]

Hi Ronnie,

That's more or less what I did, but I re-did the turn up from the last allied impulse, and got the British unit moving away from Tirana instead, and turned all Italian units to sentry. Far from ideal, but this kind of work.

I would hope that fatal errors would still be fixed, even if the AI is the only priority before Matrix closes completely the game from tech support.