Hmm i thought options bug was gone?

I posted a game a while back on the conifergames forum. i think it was close to turn 500.

highest i've gotten to before the game crashed was 623 so far.

send the crash report, log, and last 3 saves to contact@conifergames.com . also send him some info on your computer operating system and specs.

jon usually responds within a couple weeks and usually fixes it.

Have the same problems as High_Plains_Drifter for my every try to start a game. Saves are broken from turn 30-50.
Have not got such problem at first three games in september and finished once at turn 400 sucessfully. But after reinstallation in october can`t play anymore (tried on 2 laptops). Send 3 reports and got no response yet.
Forum posting don`t work too)

Believe some crashes are caused by second caravan upgrade. This bug was reported earlier

Yup, second upgrade of caravan corrupted saves for me aswell. Thankfully, when a Caravan visits you again game saves are fine again.

I got past turn 130 twice so far:
- 1st playthrough - i lost after 138 turns because of clans starving for too long
- 2nd one - I'm so far at turn 178

Yea.......but i had to exploit to get it, the exploit i used was beating a rival barb civ and NOT capturing it, every 2 turns i rinse repeat pillaging it for gold

Yea your basic point is correct, the maps are too unforgiving, your end is always starving to death,especially without stone

I usually get to about 400-500 that in that scenario as i actually have 2 stone resources and use them with the horse and sheep...BUT that save i have is the only map i do well on.

I upgrade the caravans with the gold and buy massive amounts of food.

I got lucky having that other AI close and beat him early with 2 archers and a hunter, then keep one soldier there to pillage every 2 turns, latter upgrade to spearman as bandits show up wanting my gold resource :/

1 in hundreds of rolls tho........im VERY experienced in his Civ games, and learned to use ANY possible exploit i can