0002974: Squad Station orders maintained after save, load of older save - Dwarf Fortress Bug Tracker

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0002974	Dwarf Fortress	Dwarf Mode -- Military	public	2010-08-07 08:52	2010-08-07 10:08

Reporter	Niveras	Assigned To	~~user6~~
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	resolved	Resolution	duplicate
Platform	PC	OS	Windows	OS Version	7
Product Version	0.31.12

Summary	0002974: Squad Station orders maintained after save, load of older save
Description	I organized a squad which I used in an attempt to fend off a large amount of ambushers that decimated the incoming caravans. As the battle goes on it is obvious that all is lost and I'd have to either abandon or scum. So I scum, only instead of terminating the process as I usually do (because I normally go back to the current save rather than a previous autosave), I saved the fort and loaded the autosave made at the previous season switch. When I loaded the older autosave, five of the dwarves who I organized into the squad above (the only five that currently exist, as the other five in the squad were migrants that appeared after this autosave) switched into military mode and shuffled on over to the point where I had stationed the squad in the previous save. This squad shouldn't exist - it was only formed after this autosave. Indeed, this squad isn't even listed in my Squads menu, so I can't tell them to cancel their orders.
Steps To Reproduce	Play a fort until an autosave occurs (or save the fort and rename the folder as a separate backup). Create a squad in the curre save the fort, load the autosave/backup. The squad created in the first fort, formed after the autosave/backup was created, will follow their orders even though the squad technically doesn't exist. For immediate reproducability, see this save collection: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2909 Steps: Load region3, observe the squad stationed in the entrance hall (center right, one level below the surface). Note the date is 135 Early Summer With or without unpausing, save the fort. Load region3-spr-135, return to the entrance hall (for convenience: F1 zoom and down one level, bottom right). Unpause. Five dwarves will switch to military roles, and after about 20 or 30 seconds they will rally in the entrance hall. The squad they belonged to was given station orders at this location in the region3 save, but as you can see in the military screen, only one squad exists and is comprised of only the militia commander
Additional Information	CivForge2.22 mod using Mayday graphics. Though the squad doesn't exist in the military menu, the members of the old squad are listed as belonging to it when attempting to add them to a new squad. Workaround: Add the offending dwarves to a new squad. Whether this actually clears the station order or merely removes anyone from being able to obey it is unknown, but at least the dwarves won't be stuck in military limbo. Presumably the squad and station order still "exist" but no one belongs to or can be added to the squad to obey the order. Had made a post in order to produce discussion about this, to confirm that I was not merely seeing things or whether anyone else had noticed this happening as well. However it received no replies. The post contains further details about the situation at the fort but I don't think they are relevant: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=63312.0
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2010-08-07 08:52	Niveras	New Issue
2010-08-07 10:08	~~user6~~	Note Added: 0011589
2010-08-07 10:08	~~user6~~	Relationship added	duplicate of 0001806
2010-08-07 10:08	~~user6~~	Status	new => resolved
2010-08-07 10:08	~~user6~~	Resolution	open => duplicate
2010-08-07 10:08	~~user6~~	Assigned To	=> user6