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[Jetman123]

I have a fortress. In fact, I have THREE fortresses. All of them are exactly identical. Every time I generate a new world, I get a new world with... a new fortress. The exact same fortress as the fortress in the first world.

I have three identical fortresses now. Abandoning the second or third does nothing, and I don't want to try abandoning the first. I have no further worlds to adventure in.

What should I do? This is highly unusual. Should I send the three world saves, or my entire DF folder?

[Footkerchief]

Do you mean a player-made fortress or a world gen fortress?

[Jetman123]

Player-made.



This is what my load screen looks like, after generating two new worlds. NEW worlds, mind you.

[Footkerchief]

Uh, you're probably using the same seeds over and over?

[Draco18s]

Uh, you're probably using the same seeds over and over?

That's his LOAD screen, not his START NEW GAME screen.

[Jetman123]

If it is relevant, I'm playing this particular Fortress on my new laptop, which came preinstalled with Vista (32 bit). Vista might be screwing with something.

[Footkerchief]

Uh, you're probably using the same seeds over and over?

That's his LOAD screen, not his START NEW GAME screen.

Oh, right.

I'm still confused though -- OP, we can't tell what's happening from your description.  Are you saying that when you generate a new world, instead of appearing in the "Start Playing" world list, it immediately turns into a savegame?

[eerr]

it sounds like the naming seed is looping itself, or repeating excessively

can you tell us what else repeats?

if the dwarves are genned with the same name each time...

definately a bug though, something should check for identical names

[Jetman123]

Uh, you're probably using the same seeds over and over?

That's his LOAD screen, not his START NEW GAME screen.

Oh, right.

I'm still confused though -- OP, we can't tell what's happening from your description.  Are you saying that when you generate a new world, instead of appearing in the "Start Playing" world list, it immediately turns into a savegame?

Yes, exactly.

No, it's not just the names. the entire fortress is duplicated. I can load the second or third world and it gives me the exact same fortress as the first one. The dwarves, as far as I know, are exactly the same as well. It's like every time I generate a new world, the game is generating it, then overwriting the new world with the first world.

[Calessa Lynn Orphiel]

If you abandon the fortresses and start an adventurer, are the world maps also the same?

[Jetman123]

If I abandon the second or third fortresses, the savegame immediately pops back - it's like I didn't abandon at all. It's impossible to start an adventurer.

[roguester]

There is some weirdness with vista and saves and the virtual store folder, I haven't quite figured it out yet.

[Alex Encandar]

I would suggest running DF from a folder on your desktop, definatly make sure it's NOT in the program files folder. I'm running vista 64-bit and I haven't had any problems. Also I would reccommend turning off User Account Control (UAC). That might be blocking the program from running correctly. This is a security feature so make sure you are ok with turning it off.

[Jetman123]

Ohhhhh. Yes, I installed it to Program Files. I'll move it to somewhere else.