Ok I tried loading up the savegame.pdb before the 2nd time my constructed infrastructure became unconstructed and the corresponding puzzles became unsolved. I think I loaded it on Thurs or Wed.

Today, the puzzles have become unsolved again! So all in all it happened to me 3 times!!!

Because I load the saved game that I have saved after the 1st time puzzles became unsolved, this time the puzzles that remained solved is #2, #4, #7 & #11. But in the game itself, puzzle #4 & #11 are not solved at all. I'm gonna go soon!

Hehe, I have also have the same three puzzles now unsolve themselves and the same effect with clearing the obstruction - my game is now showing as being 1800 hours old.

The other thing that I find since the first time this occurred is that the time is not advancing properly when I'm away from the game. I leave the game on fast and the villagers get only maybe two years older after 2 days away!

'tis definitely strange!

Yes, it's happening to me. After a zillion hours of play (seems like it, I can get the exact hours), some of the puzzles were unsolved.

I assumed it was a bug - I think it really has to be. Since it seems to me that it was a bug, I didn't want to continue with the current instance of the game. I wanted to go back to an earlier save. At least 2 times, I restored a backup savegame file, sucessfully. I have backupbuddy, both the PC version and a version that backs up the data on my Palm (Palm TX) to the SD card where I also keep games, documents and stuff. I run Village Sim off the SD card, but the savegame file stays in Palm memory. This last time, I saw the game was bad (unsolved puzzles), so first I restored from the save on my SD card (the SD version of backupbuddy runs every night at 4 AM, and backs up the Palm memory to the SD card). That didn't work - I still had unsolved puzzles. So, then I restored the savegame file from an earlier save - using the backupbuddy restore function on the PC. It still didn't work - I guess my savegame file on April 21 was also bad. I'm going to go back further to see if I can find a good save.

After that - what should I do - restart the game? Do I also need to reinstall? I'd prefer not to reinstall, but if I have to, I will.

Thanks. Oh - I always run the game on easy, with a fast time.

Well, that did it! My restore of a savegame file from April 20 worked. Backupbuddy also insists on restoring the 3 music files, so I let it do that.

My stats - running now with the restored savegame file from April 20, 2006

Realtime Hours plays - 2820
Villagers born - 775
Villagers cured - 715
Villagers buried - 48
Oldest Village - 87
Max Village Population - 65
Food harvested - 5281957
Crabs Caught - 16895
Total tech points earned - 932851
Total tech levels completed - 12
Island events encountered - 108
Puzzles solved 12 of 12

My Preferences
Sound On
Music On
Music Volume Low
Difficulty Easy
Game Speed Fast

Puzzle 1 - 8 hours. Puzzle 2 - 11 hours. Puzzle 3 - 44 hours. Puzzle 4 - 49 hours. Puzzle 5 - 59 hours. Puzzle 6 - 69 hours. Puzzle 7 - 49 hours. Puzzle 8 - 97 hours. Puzzle 9 - 102 hours. Puzzle 10 - 119 hours. Puzzle 11 - 155 hours. Puzzle 12 - 90 hours.

I'm running Village Sime on a Palm TX. The game is on my SD card. The savegame file and the three music files are in Palm memory. I see the three music files are also on the SD card.

I also use a program called FileZ (fantastic program) to look at files on my Palm. On my SD card, Village Sim.prc is listed as being created 04/30/05, modified 12/29/05, and accessed 04/25/06.
The size of Village Sim.PRC is 3434557b. The Palm utility lists it as 3973K - bet they also include the music files.

I don't know what it is - it's been decades since I did any programming, and I never programmed on the Palm - counter overflow or something?

I started a new game when I installed the Village Sim enhancement. Before that, I ran the game for so long that a weird thing happened (spoilers) - the Golden Child died! That meant that there were no more group festivals with the dancing. I probably would have started the game again, without the enhancement, just to get a Golden Child back. There were no festivals - it was so sad!

I had that happen too... that the Golden Child died. It was also on a looooong running game. It was sad, with no parties, etc., but on the other hand, the villagers got more done. lol! But they didn't really need a whole lot done by then, just to keep good farming/fishing practice up to keep the food bin full in case of total wipe out by a storm.

Hmmm...so I guess I am not alone here. Well, I have had it happened to me twice. I didn't have the previous saved game, so after the first time my solved puzzles became unsolved, I resolved those that I was allowed to solve again.

2nd time when it happened, I can't solve the spring water and thus the garden. Luckily this time I have been saving my savegame.pdb every few days. So far so good except my boulder is still blocking the cave BUT nobody seems to bother with it. In the game status, it's solved, so I guess the villagers also assumed so.