Production crashes when I save/load a game

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When I save a game and load a game the game totally do weird things.

1) My first turn is always double. I push enter. Date doesn't continue, nothing continues except a few ships I can move.
2) My production crashes. Showed in the picture!
http://users.telenet.be/peets/mygame.jpg
3) Sometimes my influence borders totally changes! And won't go back to the previous way it was. I have checked if something major happened, like someone building a lot of influence buildings or something or starbases. But nope, not that. No influence raise in the timeline or no influence starbase build close to the change influence area.
4) The first building/ship that is finished won't be reported to me. After that it's normal again.

I have done a lot of save/load games in this weekend to make sure how the bug happens so I could give a good explanation.
This is of course with the latest path downloaded this friday. Yesterday I downloaded another patch from stardock and nothing changed. I think it was 1.x.10 or something, previous was 1x.09 or something

None the less, the game is great
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
does anyone else has this??
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Now that you mention it, I've been wondering where the downward spikes in production were coming from. Sure enough, it matches up to when I'd saved the game.

Granted, I haven't noticed the bottomed-out flatline like you have on the far right of that graph, but I've certainly had production spike to zero due to saving. I don't know if that means production did not occur that turn, or if it's just a data-sequence issue with the save process (ie the production occured, but the fact that production occurred wasn't saved in the save file).
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I was seeing weird things happen last night while doing a lot of loading and saving. My treasury stayed at 200 or so credits for 5-6 turns in a row, with a surplus of over 2000 bc per turn. One time I ran treasury into the red and it wouldn't come up for 2-3 more turns. When I reloaded the previous save where I had over 3k bc, the negative ammount still showed up and stayed the same several turns. I had to restart the game before it would load a game with the correct treasury. Also during the time no money was coming in, no research was happening, the time to complete stayed at 6 turns for the whole 6-8 turns this went on. No production happened either, cause once I got it to work again several ships finished building that I didnt get before. Even after restarting game, though, everything skipped a turn before starting up again. I've seen that before, save a game where something was one turn away from finishing and it take two turns when you reload. I've also saved games and the tech says its 6 turns from finishing but on reload, the tech report will say its 7 turns away.

I do a lot of saving and reloading when learning a game. This may have a lot to do with how I get so far behind everyone, I'll have to pay more attention from now on. Though on the graph you posted, ot looked like all the races production dropped, if thats the case I'll have to look for another excuse!

Great game though, even if it has some other bugs I don't want to take the time to talk about now, I must get back to my empire!
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Indeed, it's a major save/load bug but it seems not important...
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've had this too
On your first turn from loading, no production or research is done

but I've observed that on the second turn, it's brought up to what it should be, i.e. your research bar shows progress of 2 turns
I haven't cheked it out for the production bar though
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've also had the same bugs described here. In addition, I always get the "first turn message" when loading a game ("the humans have given us hyperdrive technology / we've discovered hyperdrive technoly...), and the game runs me through the research screen and homeworld planet manufacturing screen. In addition to manufacturing, my research also hits zero for one turn. Here's a link to a pic of my research graph:

Link

It does pop right back, and I haven't had any permanent effects from loading a game (yet).

BTW, shouldn't this message thread be in the bug forum?
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
When creating the post I did put bug forum but for some reason it didn't appeared there. (buggy forum)
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I haven't seen a fix in the log of beta 1.1
I'm dissapointed that they don't see this bug.