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new player - game setup
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2025 10:40 am
by Lastwish
Hi all,
I am keep playing Civ3 but looking for a change, want to try else...
I enjoy playing:
- massive world maps
- lot of civilizations (modern world scenarios or just starting in real locations)
- slow research
- few slow turns per day (don't mind gamin running in background while doing turn
I found this map/save:
HUGE earth map (500x250)
viewtopic.php?t=158
But can't load it as save game/load scenario - lost connection to sever error.
Can anyone help me with loading this, or can suggest some mod with massive world map/a lot of civilizations/massive tech tree/ building options etc
Thanks
Re: new player - game setup
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2025 10:59 am
by cazfi
Linux, Windows, or Mac?
Exact details depend on the operating system, but in principle you should run the freeciv-server separately on a terminal, and attempt to load scenario there, to see what kind of error messages (if any) the server gives.
Re: new player - game setup
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2025 11:18 am
by Lastwish
Using W11 and Ubuntu, was going to email myself "currnet save file" when need to use different system while away
Re: new player - game setup
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2025 7:21 pm
by cazfi
Ubuntu (linux) is better for the exercise.
Open terminal.
Run freeciv-server with the "-f" -parameter loading the scenario. (I have it installed with the modpack installer, to /home/cazfi/.freeciv/scenarios)
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$ freeciv-server -f /home/cazfi/.freeciv/scenarios/earth-500x250-v1.1.sav.bz2
What does it say?
Re: new player - game setup
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2025 10:34 am
by Lastwish
Hi,
Sorry for late response been away for few days
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[$ freeciv-server -f /home/Downloads/earth-500x250-v1.1.sav.bz2
This is the server for Freeciv version 3.1.0
You can learn a lot about Freeciv at https://www.freeciv.org/
This freeciv-server program has player authentication support, but it's currently not in use.
1: Error loading savefile '/home/Downloads/earth-500x250-v1.1.sav.bz2':
Could not load savefile: /home/Downloads/earth-500x250-v1.1.sav.bz2
3: Loading rulesets.
3: Ruleset: 'aifill' has been set to 6.
3: Ruleset: 'generator' has been set to "Pseudo-fractal height" (FRACTAL).
3: Ruleset: 'topology' has been set to "Wrap East-West", "Wrap North-South", "Isometric", and "Hexagonal" (WRAPX|WRAPY|ISO|HEX).
3: Ruleset: 'mapsize' has been set to "Tiles per player" (PLAYER).
3: Ruleset: 'tinyisles' has been set to enabled.
3: Ruleset: 'temperature' has been set to 60.
3: Ruleset: 'flatpoles' has been set to 0.
3: Ruleset: 'startunits' has been set to "cwsx".
3: Ruleset: 'citymindist' has been set to 3.
3: Ruleset: 'techlevel' has been set to 1.
3: Ruleset: 'foggedborders' has been set to enabled.
3: Ruleset: 'restrictinfra' has been set to enabled.
3: Ruleset: 'unreachableprotects' has been set to disabled.
3: Ruleset: 'onsetbarbs' has been set to 120.
3: Ruleset: 'occupychance' has been set to 100.
3: Ruleset: 'razechance' has been set to 10.
3: Ruleset: 'techlossforgiveness' has been set to 0.
3: Ruleset: 'revolentype' has been set to "Random, max always quicker" (RANDQUICK).
3: Ruleset: 'tradeworldrelpct' has been set to 100.
3: AI*1 has been added as Easy level AI-controlled player (classic).
3: AI*2 has been added as Easy level AI-controlled player (classic).
3: AI*3 has been added as Easy level AI-controlled player (classic).
3: AI*4 has been added as Easy level AI-controlled player (classic).
3: AI*5 has been added as Easy level AI-controlled player (classic).
3: AI*6 has been added as Easy level AI-controlled player (classic).
3: Now accepting new client connections on port 5556.
For introductory help, type 'help'.
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Re: new player - game setup
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2025 3:03 pm
by cazfi
Lastwish wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 10:34 am
Hi,
Sorry for late response been away for few days
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[$ freeciv-server -f /home/Downloads/earth-500x250-v1.1.sav.bz2
This is the server for Freeciv version 3.1.0
You can learn a lot about Freeciv at https://www.freeciv.org/
This freeciv-server program has player authentication support, but it's currently not in use.
1: Error loading savefile '/home/Downloads/earth-500x250-v1.1.sav.bz2':
Could not load savefile: /home/Downloads/earth-500x250-v1.1.sav.bz2
Seems like you forgot your username part of the path. "/home/
<user>/Downloads/..."
Re: new player - game setup
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2025 7:09 pm
by Lastwish
Hi,
<facepalm>
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This is the server for Freeciv version 3.1.0
You can learn a lot about Freeciv at https://www.freeciv.org/
This freeciv-server program has player authentication support, but it's currently not in use.
1: Too old savegame format not supported any more.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Re: new player - game setup
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2025 7:54 pm
by cazfi
Ok, so that file from the other thread is in very old format, not supported any more by the current freeciv versions.
The version in the modpack has been updated to a newer format, so I recommend installing the modpack. On Windows, modpack installer comes with freeciv. On Ubuntu you may need to install separate freeciv-ruleset-tools package.