"Alternate Reality" multiplayer recordings

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So, played this game on the LAN... 2v2 comp stomp... got a recording, and Im watching it- and the recording played out completely different than the game did... Any ideas as to why?

 

-Gonzo

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Its not just multiplayer... I played a 12 hour long 1v1 vs an hard AI in 1.12, (big map, slow settings)  and when I went to see the recording... after an hour in, I noticed my first kol capital ship I had built (which never died durring the game) was dead, and its fleet members were sitting at my homeworld... the enemy ships that that kol would later destroy just kinda sat in the systems they were supposed to get destroyed in, and so were taking up fleet space that they werent supossed to be taking up, and the pirates were doing wierd things, and I desided that whoooly shizznit, I better exit out of this before the growing paradoxes rip apart the fabric of cyberspace! (e.g. blue screen of death)

 

Edit:  Hehe... offtopic... but I remembered when I used a insta-nuke cheatcode while watching a recording of a game in Rise of Nations once (or maybe i used that code a few times... never enough nukes, right?:) )  haha... the paradoxes eventually DID totally screw up my computer... it required a total plug-pull and a check of the harddrive to fix up... (ya, you know you did it bad when the press-the-power-button-for-5-seconds-kill-switch stops working)

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

hey weird.....  i used to get this in starcraft single player games.... me and my freind would play a game and then watch it in replay and everything was different.... idk wtf that shit is but its rly strange

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

It's the same way in the Total War games. The reason *there* was because those replays recorded mouse clicks, not the actual results of the *actual* combats.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

My gf and I are getting this while we play. We will be playing and at some point we notice that we're playing in different "realities" not just in replay. Its so bad its made entrenchment unplayable for us.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting mezlabor, reply 4
My gf and I are getting this while we play. We will be playing and at some point we notice that we're playing in different "realities" not just in replay. Its so bad its made entrenchment unplayable for us.
End of mezlabor's quote

 

Yes it has.

 

I'm not 100% sure but I found this thread that seems to imply it's a synch issue caused by something stardock added called "alloy"  https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/334022

 

If this is what alloy does for mp, I would prefer to do without i as the games unplayable. They should remove this "alloy" thing at least until it doesnt break the game.