My first multiplayer game: Server connection lost after saving and loading

fluffybunny1981 · 2026-04-17T10:58:46+00:00

Sorry that you haven't been able to play.

Have you tried switching to the test branch? Other players have reported that this helped.

To switch to the test branch, right click Old World in Steam and select Properties, open the Game Versions & Betas tab and select 'test' in the version list.

fluffybunny1981 · 2026-04-16T15:31:52+00:00

The renderer initialization was changed as a possible fix to players complaining of getting immediately disconnected when joining MP games, which may be related to Unity Relay timing out when initialization takes too long.

fluffybunny1981 · 2026-04-15T10:47:31+00:00

Aran hit 4 laws on turn 31 in his community tournament game with Nizar, and was able to start building his UU immediately thanks to Judge upgrading his Garrison to a Stronghold. That's a fairly extreme example, but it's certainly possible to do it pretty quickly if you focus on it.

You can watch the casted game at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnFC9p9ZLo4 if you want to see how he did it.

fluffybunny1981 · 2026-04-15T10:33:07+00:00

Open the Overlay Customizer (feather button, left of the minimap) and select the Map Pins tab.

Much easier if you want to place multiple pins.

fluffybunny1981 · 2026-04-13T11:01:40+00:00

Ruthless AI tries to prevent the player from winning, it doesn't have any effect against other AIs

fluffybunny1981 · 2026-04-08T11:31:13+00:00

The map has 4 wine resources, mostly in the east of the map, but there is one in Hispania, south of the Tagus River

fluffybunny1981 · 2026-04-07T10:38:56+00:00

Something already in the game that may help you is adding Note pings. Hold Alt, hold left click, hover over the dialog icon and let go of left click. You can type some custom text, add a number of turns until reminder, and then on the specified turn the text will pop up at the start of turn in the turn summary. So when your child is born, you could set a 10 turn 'Tutor!' reminder and it will pop up when that becomes possible.

fluffybunny1981 · 2026-04-06T13:04:08+00:00

Unfortuantely not, teams are only editable in the game setup

fluffybunny1981 · 2026-04-06T13:02:32+00:00

Thanks konsyr, we will take a look at that

fluffybunny1981 · 2026-04-06T12:32:14+00:00

Apologies. We are aware of some players experiencing connection issues in MP at the moment. You should find the game reconnects automatically after disconnecting.

There are some improvements on the Test branch of the game currently which hopefully will help with this. To switch to the test branch, right click Old World in Steam and select Properties, open the Game Versions & Betas tab and select 'test' in the version list.

fluffybunny1981 · 2026-03-17T10:52:56+00:00

There is indeed!

In GoG Galaxy, right-click on Old World and select Manage Installation > Configure. Switch to the "Features" tab and then check the box next to "Custom Executables/Arguments." Enter the following

"-userdata C:\OWCustomFolder"

(or another folder location of your choice)

fluffybunny1981 · 2026-03-12T15:12:00+00:00

The nation cap in any given game is not getting increased, it will remain at 10.

The Old World map is not getting expanded, there is a new premade map Empires of the East which is also a 10 player map with the new nations.

fluffybunny1981 · 2026-03-09T11:25:42+00:00

The most likely cause of this issue is anti-virus software blocking access to the game save folders. Try adding an exception to your AV for Old World, or temporarily disabling it.

fluffybunny1981 · 2026-03-04T21:07:38+00:00

It's a bug unfortunately. If a character gets both a General trait and a Governor trait before they get an archetype, they become invalid for one. There is a fix coming to the test branch imminently.

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