Bug: Losing a single-player game for no reason

[Endoperez]

I would've thought savegames are in the main folder, just as in the other versions.

Are you aware of the fact that Dominions only stores one "save" at a time, and that you can't "load" a previous turn without making copies of the folder that holds the turn data?

If you do know what's going on, I think you've found some kind of a Vista-only bug. I don't remember hearing about anything like this before.

[llamabeast]

Savegames are in a funny and hard-to-find place on Vista. I couldn't say where, but previous players have really struggled to find them.

UhhhClem, you almost certainly ran out of dominion. What did the defeat message say? This has happened to me a few times - you think you're completely safe because your armies are winning, and you don't notice you've got almost no candles left.

[Cor2]

Arrrr Avast Matey. Tis Me bet, if me were a bettin man.

[Edi]

Cor2 said:
Arrrr Avast Matey. Tis Me bet, if me were a bettin man.

You could very well lose that bet. Unpatched version (3.00) under Vista cannot possibly be a good combination.

As for how to solve that problem, UhhhClem, I have no idea. If you want to report bugs, we have a bug discussion thread for that. You can find a link to it from the bug shortlist thread stickied at the top of the forum.

[Loren]

Add me to the crowd that thinks you died from a lack of dominion. You lose your last candle and that's that, you're dead, all your armies vanish. It doesn't matter if you controlled all but one province on the map when that happened. (In theory it wouldn't matter if you controlled every province but I can't think of any means by which this could happen. To control every province would mean your enemies had only stealth units left. Stealth preachers could kill you but I don't think there is any stealth pretender and if he has no province and no pretender he will have died.)

The game is actually about spreading your dominion (that's why it's named "Dominions"), your armies are merely a means to this end.

[Endoperez]

There are actually several stealthy pretenders. Unicorn-riding Arch Druid (many nations), Master Druid, Partholonian Sorceress and Mother of Tuathas (Man etc only), Vampire Queen, Ghost King, Lord of the Wild (Panagea only), Anansi (Machaka only - oops, that's my mod! ), Son of Fenrer (Jotun only), Allfather (Vanheim only), Lord of the Night (EA/LA Mictlan only)... But as you can see, only Ghost King and Vampire Queen are universally available. Most others are limited to Nature nations or glamour nations, with few exceptions.

[Folket]

Well, if I found a bug I would patch the game to the newest version.

Given that there have been five version since the release it is somewhat likly that preformance will be increased.