I am running Windows 7 with a resolution of 1366x768, 64 bit OS. I downloaded and installed VV5 (trial version), in frantic anticipation. I hit play on the reminder screen and the music started. Then the screen went black and it minimized on me. I thought I had hit a button so I clicked the icon on the bar at the bottom. It popped back up to full screen size then minimized again. I did it a couple more times then gave up. I uninstalled and reinstalled... same thing. I'm guessing this must be a bug ::shrug::

Sunsinger, it's either a display issue or an issue with Firefox. I've received your support and replied to it. If you have Firefox open, try closing it completely, then try to run the game again.

Wow, you are fast... kk, going to check the email!

When I pick up duplicate rlics, I just stay at 9 tech points. Is this the way it stays till I have a reasearcher, researching in the lab?

Relics work differently from other collectibles in Virtual Villagers games. Only duplicate science items produce tech points. Duplicate relics produce energy points. However, if your energy meter is already at your current maximum, you won't notice a change.

Thank YOu

Hello. (:
My OS is Windows XP and my laptop is quite old, but it has always been able to run LDW games. But now that I tried to run the trial of VV5 I got two error messages, first one was:

Could not open display. Error code=0xc860160

After closing that one a little time went by an then the second error message came up:

Error: Acess violation at 0x0047C450 (tried to read from 00000004)

Is there any way to fix it or is my computer just too old to run this game?

Hello. I am using a 32-bit Windows Vista computer. My screen resolution is set to 1024 by 768. I bought VV5 today, and I love it, but when I play in fullscreen (there isn't enough space in windowed) there is a black border on the right and bottom side, and the left and top are partially cut off. I can't interact with the border, and I can interact with the stuff that is cut off. I took a screen capture, and it displayed normally in that image. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

Amelia, I have posted troubleshooting procedures for that error here. If your computer is capable of running the game, you should be able to resolve the problem using those procedures.

Krelxean, the black borders are due to your display adapter's handling of the game. You can use the procedures I linked to above to check all of your display settings and driver.

I updated the driver, and it didn't do anything.

Unfortunately, there are many different display adapters in use, and they all have different settings and configuration utilities. You might consult the manual or the support site for your computer or display adapter to see if the handling of 1024x768 full-screen programs can be adjusted.

None of it is working, and I can't find any information on how to do that, but thank you for your time.

EDIT: I fixed it! All I had to do was open the menu on my monitor and hit "auto adjust" while in the game. I feel stupid now.

I don't know if this is a bug, but I have a nursing male.

That is normal, Fawn

Thanks!

Hello, me again. I hope this isn't a spoiler.

The guide says on spirituality
I droped my Adept Builder on the statue and it said "More tech needed to improve statue" When I have Lvl 2 of that tech. Do I need Lvl 2 Constuction, a master builder or is it a bug?

The statue is a complex project with several phases. When the game says that you need more tech, it's referring to technologies, not villager skills.

I recently had a new computer built and was going to have do a 64 bit until I was told that a lot of games and other software won't work properly, if at all, on 64 bit computers. I don't know if that's the problem, but the thought popped into my head when I read your post. I have Windows 7 and have no problems whatsoever on a 32 bit computer. Try running your compatibility wizard and see if it gives you any insight into the problem. Hope this helps at least a little.

Our games have been tested on and run equally well on 32-bit and 64-bit computers/operating systems. Sunsinger's problem was not that, but your suggestion about compatibility settings is very valid on some computers.

hi

i run windows 7 64 bit

tried everything from closing firefox to every compatibility settings

no luck the error is pasted below

regards john

ps will not be buying it yet
jre@wn.com.au

the old vv tree of life works fine on win 7


Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Virtual Villagers - New Believers.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4d1cd230
Fault Module Name: StackHash_ce92
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000096
Exception Offset: 00952f88
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: ce92
Additional Information 2: ce922fcf8078e017fc15239cf6834645
Additional Information 3: 90bd
Additional Information 4: 90bd69c55166475879368b36deb8eefe

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We haven't seen this crash before, but we'll check it out.

In the guide it says that normal or do i need more of some other tech?

You need another tech (the guide doesn't specifically mention it, but it's related to your ability to complete all structures).

hi

so far i managed the game to work i added the exe to the windows DEP

seems to be running for now

regards john

Thanks for letting us know, John. We have a FAQ answer about Windows DEP, but we haven't seen it cause a crash before.

yep it certainly did prang, did not like it at all

so i thought why not try and walla success

regards john

I'm trying to download the PC trial... I get to about 99%, and then it times out. Any suggestions?

What connection speed are you using? The download is well over 50 meg and works best over fast connections. You might try during non-peak hours, or you could try downloading it on another computer, if possible, then moving the setup file to your computer for installation.

Not sure if it's a bug, but my mausoleum is 1000% blocked right now. It started out at just over 100% blocked, and has steadily gone up as the heathens have worked to block it.

mommyswenn - My mausoleum is the same way...? Hopefully it stops at 1000%

My bug: I'm on a Mac, and I have been trying to buy a tech - every time I click the buy button on any of them, the entire game crashes.

ETA: I should probably add I'm on the trial version?

Arthur designed it to go up to 1000% as the heathens bury it.

We're looking into the Mac crash.

I am on a Mac as well, I paid for the game, and have not had any indication that I should enter my Validation code....How/where/when do I do this?
As well, My Mac is crashing whenever I try to buy Tech points as well. Will I not be able to buy tech points? No point to the game without being able to level up on techs.
~~Kathleen

I'm having the EXACT same problem, except I'm running Windows Vista, 32 bit OS. I tried closing out Firefox and such as suggested, but it didn't help. Are there any other suggestions for this one?

Kathleen, the problem you're experiencing is a bug in the Mac demo version of VV5 only. The full version works properly. If you haven't downloaded the full version yet, please look in your purchase confirmation email for the link. If you have downloaded it, please see this answer in our Support FAQ for help running the full version.

Parazombie, the procedures in this answer in our Support FAQ should help you resolve that issue. Let us know if it doesn't resolve the problem.

Barbara, I sent a note to "Support" as I was not able to understand the technical stuff! DUH!
Hopefully I will hear back from them soon otherwise I guess I will have to wait.
~~Kathleen
who thanks you for your help.

okay so i am playing the mac version of VV5 and whenever i click purchase for level 2 of construction my game shuts down. I tried it twice and the second time it made everything on my desktop get squished together has anyone else had this problem?

That was reported a few posts above yours here and we also have a FAQ answer for it

I am getting an error message - application failed 0x0CA47251 tired to read 0xFFFFFFF8

I'm on windows PC (7 I think - hubby does all the technical stuff)

You might try changing the DEP settings for VV5. That has resolved crash problems in Windows 7.

Re my problem with not being able to buy up in technology without crashing:
I am on a Mac, and somehow I downloaded the game for a PC!
I redownloaded (is that a word?) the Mac game and all is well in my world. Mind you at this point in time, I think the Heathens are winning
ADDENDUM:
Fabulous customer support here....Beyond belief for the internet :):):)

I really doubt this is any kind of spoiler, but is it normal that when you start a game I'm pretty sure its a glitch of some sort. I think it was acting normally before I bought the fukk version, but I'm not sure.

Are you pausing and un-pausing the game a lot (for example, to place children onto collectibles)? That practice will often adversely affect the game's timers, particularly those of nursing moms.

While many people use pause to help them with everything from breeding to collectibles, the game was designed to be paused while you are away from it for several hours, not as a means to assist with game play.

Hm... I do pause a lot (I'm not sure what is normal). But this is effecting all of my tribes, and I had a mom stay at 92 minutes for two hours(I made sure to leave it running unpaused for at least 20 min). I shut down my computer, and it came back as 93 minutes. I don't think I'm pausing more than I did in any other VV

If you're 'unlucky' and you pause the game right before the timer is set to update, that update will be skipped. Do that too many times, and you have what appears to be a broken timer. Each game reacts a little differently, as well, so it's hard to predict. Your nursing moms will eventually recover on their own, and there's a workaround you can try that I linked to here, if you want to attempt an immediate fix.

I don't know if this is a bug or not. The problem I am having is I get up to around 317 energy points and then I don't get any more collectibles that will give me the next God Powers.
I have started 3 other games and it is the same thing.

New collectibles decrease in frequency as the number of duplicates increases - the more new ones you have found, the smaller the opportunity for additional new ones to appear. It's all about probabilities, and it has worked the same way in every one of our games that feature them.

However, that being said, the primary means to increase your energy, and thus your powers, is through population increases (through conversion or baby villagers).

This is an odd one happening only in one of the three games I'm running. In the first game, the one I finished several days ago, all of the nursing women are suddenly stuck at 123 minutes. The women are aging, but they are not dropping the children. My population has shrunk from over 90 to in the 50s and continuing to drop, and these babies just keep hanging around. Running in Windows Vista.

Please see my earlier post in this thread along with the two posts that follow it for a possible explanation.

Hi I looked in technical issues and here and haven't seen this one. The issue I am having started after I got the god power fog. Since I got fog after the game is running a few hours none of the god powers work. When I try to use one the energy meter drops but I don't get butterflies, bees, tempest, fog or anything else with bees I hear them buzzing but don't see them and they don't chase anyone. If I quit the game and wait several minutes and reopen the game they work fine for a few hours and than the same thing occurs. I have window's 7 and my display is appropriate though I didn't look to see exactly where it is set at I have had no display issues. Any Ideas I find this annoying as it always happens when I need to use a particular god power.

Thanks for the report. We'll check it out.

I am having this same problem except have not advance enough to get the fog power. Playing on Windows 7. thanks

I am pretty sure it was told already and it's not a bug, but if you click on Noni bush, letter "N" isn't capitalized.

I'm having the same problem with the nursing mothers, but I haven't been pausing the game. I have switched between slow and fast modes to keep things from advancing too quickly while I sleep. Is there anything else that could cause this problem? Thanks!

Have you tried the workaround that I linked to in this post to clear up the problem? As I said before, the nursing timer is the most finicky timer in the game.

I had an Esteemed Elder who I used the youthful god power on. When she was 19, she started nursing a baby. She turned 33 and she was still nursing the SAME baby! Since then, at least 5 other women have nursed and had their babies (the youngest of that group is now while the Esteemed Elder's nursing timer is still 123 minutes. I even tried to use the power to make her young again hoping it would make her baby disappear, but alas, she is now 5 years old and nursing the same baby for 123 minutes still! How can I get rid of this baby??

Whenever a nursing mother 'regresses' in age (whether by your actions or an Island Event), she will be carrying that baby around until she reaches the age where she would have weaned the baby after nursing it normally. It's always been that way, all the way back to Village Sim. You can see a discussion about that issue in the discussion preceding this post.

I tried the workaround, but it didn't do anything. It's possible that I did it wrong, but I followed the directions as closely as I could. Right now I've just got everything paused until I'm ready to try it again.

That's well and fine but when is that going to be? She had been nursing that baby from ages 19 to 33 with 123 minutes left. That's what prompted me to try to de-age her again. When she gets to the age she was and she is still carrying the baby around, how do I get the nursing timer to move? I've had many villagers nurse and have their babies in the time she is still nursing hers. It's a bit frustrating!

i think she means that your villager will be nursing the baby until two years after she reaches the age she was when you used the power on her. so now that she's 5 years old, she'll be nursing that baby for quite a while.

That's exactly what I mean. For example, if a female begins nursing a baby at age 45, she would normally wean the child at age 47. If you make her young again, she will carry the baby around until she reaches the age of 47 again. You can, of course, speed that up by using another power if you don't want to wait that long.

Hi gang, I have one mom that's been nursing this baby for nearly the entire game. She was one I was working on to be good at everything and then she got a baby and can't seem to get rid of it. All the other moms have had babies and one is even 8 now and she still has this baby. Is there a way to fix this?

Thank you for that tip and thank you for the replies.

However, isn't it a bug that the Esteemed Elder was nursing the same baby from 19 to 33 with the same time left the whole time (123 minutes)? Could making her young (which I did a couple of days ago) bugged her? I only made her young a 2nd time to see if it would poof the baby (which it did not).

I don't know if this has been mentioned but when I leave the game in pause and exit. I then re-enter the game a while later and the villagers have moved around. The game is still pause but they are all in different spots. For example I had a child in the bottom left corner of the game with 4 orange mask people and three adults in the safe area. I paused the game exited and re-entered about an hour later and they had all moved the orange mask people were back at the hungry totem and the adults were in different spots. Now I have to retry again.

After you destroy Rainbow Totem, when you click on remains, they still are selectable and message says: "100% of the Rainbow Totem dismantled"
It shouldn't be selectable like other destroyed Totems.

Potential spoiler re: clothing hut

I have 3 mothers who have been nursing since yesterday (at least 20 hours). Two of them are elders, 1 is not. It shows they still have 235 or 245 minutes left. WHAT TO DO?! Please advise.

Same thing happens to Cloth Hut

cindylouwho, please see my earlier post in this thread along with the two posts that follow it for a possible explanation.

nb3, we'll have a look at that situation and see about blocking that area as a hut construction site. However, there are other ways to complete the affected puzzle.

I haven't paused my game in days. I have completed everything excepting a few collectibles. I just made one of the nursing moms a child again and now I have a 5 year old carrying around a baby, lol. I will wait to see if this problems corrects on it's own as suggested. Will post again tomorrow if it doesn't.

The villager that you made young will be nursing the baby for a very long time. See this post for an explanation.

scalad, please see this answer in our Support FAQ for an explanation of why the peeps move.

Dimplz, any time a female villager becomes young again, and later carries a baby, the baby will not be weaned until she once again reaches the age she was before her age reverted. In previous VV games, that was a rare occurrence, but in VV5 it's far more likely. We are still evaluating the effect of this situation on the game.

Lady CFII I have looked at all the links you provided and the only option you have basically given me is to uninstall the game and start new? I don't think so. I went back and looked and the only mothers who are affected by the glitch are those that I have used the time warp on. There is obviously a glitch in the game that will not allow time-warped women to have children. Well, they can have them, they just can't put them down. Starting the entire game over is not a good explanation of the problem since I didn't have the problem the others had with pausing the game a lot. I haven't paused the game since the first couple of days so that can't be the problem here.

If you look at the post immediately above yours, I supplied some additional information that applies to your game (since you used a power on the females). I'm not sure how you interpreted my answer as telling you that you had to start over. You don't have to start over, since you can wait for them to wean the children or

I found that there is bugs in VV5 one is the last villager i hilighted is not the same one i had before i get one that i did not hilighted. Heathes that are filling up the mosoleumn dont stay away long enough they come back after i had 50 master builders try to destroy the blocking totem and the heatheans come back in one minute after 40 per cent was taken down,

I too had the problem with the highlighted villager often not being the one selected. It gradually stopped happening, and I suspect that it is something like the "click box" for the selection is a bit offset or too small or something, so that I gradually adapted to the "sweet spot".

I don't know if it's a bug, or if I have something yet to do after (I thought) completing Puzzle 10, but it doesn't show up on the Puzzles page as completed.

Here's one I almost hate to report.. the Rascal seems to have found himself in some quicksand or something in the NW edge of the Puzzle 10 feature. Anyway I left the game on while away for a few minutes and returned to find him immobile in that location, with only his head visible. So far I haven't found a way to extricate him, not that I've tried TOO hard yet! LOL He can still jump, and rant, but his "activity" either says "Nothing" or speeds so fast through his choices that they're difficult to read.

Thanks for looking into it. I'd completed the puzzle already, anyway - but it was just an element I wish I would've had in my first two games.

LOL LadyCFII, please forget I had a young nursing villager.

My original problem was I had a villager nursing for 14 years of her life (from age 19 to 33). This was a villager that was old, then I made her young, she grew up normally to age 19, THEN started nursing a baby and was still nursing the baby with 123 minutes left when she was 33. I made her young again AFTER all of that (and she turned into a nursing youth).

I am just trying to report a possible bug of when you make someone young and they grow up again, there may be problems with their babies.

Thank you! That did answer my question.

If you have a villager nursing a child and use the time warp on them you then have a child running around with a baby. Obviously using time warp does not solve the problem. But, I know now not to have my time warped ladies carry babies - unless I want them to be useless for 50 years, lol.

There is a glitch, which destroys Rascal activity completely.
For more info please refer to this thread: http://www.ldwforums.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/227338/VIDEO_How_to_get_rid_of_Rascal

Video is available.

Dimplz, I understood what you were saying. The nursing-seemingly-forever issue is complex. Maybe it would help if we consider an example from VV1, where a 57-year-old female (who is not nursing) is the subject of an Island Event that makes her young again. If she subsequently bears a child at any time in her life prior to reaching age 57, she will not begin nursing 'normally' and progress toward weaning the child until she once again reaches the age of 57. You can think of it as a highly specific and limited form of time travel, which has always played havoc with the game's internal timers.

This phenomenon has always been in the game, but it has rarely been encountered until VV5. Now it appears it's going to be a common problem for people who want to use a specific power as a normal part of game play, which is why we are looking at it again. It's impossible for me to say what Arthur will decide, though, since he tends to enjoy quirky things like this.

cindylouwho, Time Warp is a different power than Grant Youth. The one that causes the problem is Grant Youth. Time Warp can be used to reverse the process, but it will take a few uses, depending on how old the villager was when she was made young.

Unless Arthur decides to revamp how the nursing timer works (and I'm not expecting that, given how complicated the nursing timers are), it is probably not a good idea to use the Grant Youth power on any female that you ever want to be a mom.

Ahhh OK! Thank you so much for explaining it again this way.

Since today, I ran into the same bug as skipper45mn reported about using a god power, having the energy meter drop, but not getting the result. However, the Spawn Butterflies and the Hand of Bloom powers always seem to work for me, but unfortunately the rest of the powers has failed me, as said, since today (I bought the game on January the 4th and have been playing since that date).

I tried the 'work-around' given by skipper45mn (closing and opening the game) and that seems to work, but would like to know if there is going to be a more permanent solution :-)

Hey guys, I seem to be having some kind of issue with the nursing timer. It doesn't seem to work on real time, I'm not having the issue where two hours later it's still on the same number or the time warp thing. It's just that the timer doesn't seem to be doing it like it was two hours since it's been at least two hours (I think) since I 'mated' the villagers. I tried the fix mentioned a couple pages back and that doesn't seem to help.

The heathen timer works fine and aging works normally, although my kid hasn't quite reached his birthday I guess.

Is the nursing timer changing at all? What speed do you have the game set to?

The nursing timer is changing, thats not the problem, it just doesn't seem to be going real time, and I have it set to fast speed.

The nursing timer on fast speed starts at 123 minutes, but 'counts' in 3-minute increments and often takes up to 10 minutes longer once zero is reached. We haven't seen issues with the operation of that timer, as long as the computer's system clock is stable, there is no time-travel, and you haven't ever used certain powers on the nursing mom (which you said you haven't). The only way to know for sure in your case is to actually time the nursing process.

Yea, i don't really remember when exactly they started nursing and I have paused alot to grab relics.

I had actually done some time travel in a previous instance of that tribe, out of frustration at converting the yellow and red heathens, but I restarted it, so it shouldn't affect the new instance of the tribe.

It also seemed faster on the previous instance of that tribe, nursing I mean.

Hello, I have been pausing my game to duplicate collectibles and relics, 3-4 days ago, I noticed Caia and Taunga's nursing timer has not been changing. So I stopped duplicating my collectables, relics, and mushies so maybe it would fix itself, it didn't. So now It's still like that, is there anything other than uninstalling and reinstalling that would help? Or will Caia and Taunga be like this for life?

I have made many posts in this thread (and forum) explaining the nursing timer situation. Perhaps I should consolidate them all into one sticky post?

I guess, but mine isn't related to the god power (haven't actually gotten there yet), so.....

I found a low level bug. Does not affect game play but thought I would point it out. If you use the Fog of Doom and then use the sunshine to clear it out, the fog will clear out but the villagers are transparent until the timer runs out for the fog. then all returns to normal. Thought it was rather comical.

The transparency is on a timer, and Arthur elected to leave it as it is.

I am running on my old computer since my good one died. I run windows XP and OLD though it is it is fully updated with drivers etc... I have an issue that every time I try to remove full screen mode it reduces and I can't pull the game back up.
I had to go to my documents and copy all the file out of the folder then deleted them. Then added them back one at a time. Thankfully I didn't lose my game I discovered it was the "Virtual Villagers - New Believers21.ldw" file that cause the situation. Is there a fix for this?? I sometimes need to run it out of full screen mode.

Edited to add
After I went through all that I found something in the FAQ. FAQ ANSWER
Will this fix the issue for running in window mode?? Will I have to do this everytime??

There are a lot of causes and solutions in that FAQ answer, so it would help to know which part you are asking about. If you are referring to editing the .ini file, you won't need to do that more than once, unless you are also changing the full-screen mode setting in the game's options screen. If you do that, the game changes the setting in the .ini file.

I've noticed that the master doc heathen actually becomes an adept doc on conversion. The others are masters as usual, so I don't know if its a bug or intentional since it's so easy to get that one quickly.

The title of the first puzzle is The Sick Heathen, and it's never stated in the game that the heathen is a master.

Yea but the title of the heathen was master doc. It's really not a problem, just something I noticed.

So it is! That's easy to fix.

I hope the fix consists of making the doctor a master, rather than changing the title. The other three purple masks are masters and retain their skill on conversion, it would be inconsistent to have only an adept doctor.

This is not a major problem but one of my villagers was kneeling in the garden before I fixed the aqueduct and it said she was washing up. Hope she wasn't taking a dirt bath.

actually, I have had that happen well after the aqueduct was repaired. I went to get a snapshot of it but missed my opportunity, her status still said bathing but she started to move to the pools, but she was definitely washing up in the crops before she went on to fresher waters.

I was reading THIS topic on taming the rascal native and though I didn't have one, I thought I would see what happened if I did it. So I put butterflies there and the south rock cropping and the children came. Then I decided to be mean and strike them with lightning. The kids were unphased by the lightning and continued to play with the butterflies. I would have thought they would have scrambled. No biggie, I guess.

I then gave them bees. This made the kids run into the lake and they all became stuck where they stopped "running", not just in the hot spots previously shown before but anywhere in the lake. The butterflies went away and so did the bees but the kids remained stuck in the water.

Arthur has fixed all of those 'sticky spots' that he wishes to fix, so have fun taking advantage of the ones that remain.

any word on when an updated version of the game with the bug fixes will be coming?

Nothing I can divulge yet. We don't want y'all pounding on us if we give a date and miss it!

lol...that's understandable.

Does that include the one in the lake?

Also, would it be a bug if the villagers pathing when fishing always takes them near the heathen camp? I think maybe that one needs to be fixed.

Arthur is aware of that issue, but that doesn't mean he will fix it.

I've searched through but haven't seen this one before. I had two games going side by side - both at approximately the same place. I had converted all the blue masks on both games, and had all the purple except the science master. On the first game I got a spontaneous conversion of the MOS so he didn't drop his piece of necklace - so I had to start again.
On the second game I converted the MOS in the normal way but he still didn't drop a piece of necklace - so now what do I do. I am running on MacOS 10.6.6 and I'm wondering if the glitch is OS related. My daughter hasn't upgraded her system and had no problem. Grrr!

The upgrade to Mac OS 10.6.6 would not cause that kind of change in the game's behavior. Does the puzzle screen show that puzzle 13 is complete?

Yes! the only one I have left to complete is the last one.

We have not seen that occur before. Could you please attach a screen shot of your collections screen? If you don't know how to do that, you can see detailed instructions here.

[img]http://www.toolan.com/downloads/Screenshot-ldw[/img]

Ok I didn't check that screen before. It must have registered the piece even though I hadn't picked it up. Thanks for that.

The other problem is not so easily solved since I didn't check that screen. Grr! I may have deleted a perfectly good game. Oh well - such is life.

sorry make that

Well, at least you know what's going on! You're all set to start working on the last puzzle now!

This is probably not a bug, but in my opinion it should be considered one.

In one of my tribes two of my original villagers starved to death. I kept going, thinking I could resurrect them later, but of course their skeletons vanished long before that power became available.

I really think that if you have a power like that, there's no reason for the game to get rid of skeletons without the player's permission. Presumably, if the player hasn't had them taken to the mausoleum, then the player might be waiting for the power to become available.

Also, even if the game insists on getting rid of the skeletons, I think it's wrong to have them just vanish without a trace. They should at least go to the mausoleum (even if it's not complete yet). Isn't that what happened in VV3 and VV4?

In every VV game, the skeletons vanish after roughly 24 hours if they are not given a proper burial. The mechanism for recording a peep's information has varied from chapter to chapter, though. VV5 isn't the first game with the possibility of losing a villager's memory - all the way back in VV1 (and Village Sim) it was possible to lose departed peeps if the cemetery wasn't discovered in time.

Arthur likes to give players choices in how to play the games, along with the trade-offs that come with those choices. For players who really care about preserving the memory of their villagers, the mausoleum can be completed very early in the game, but at the cost of delaying other advances and making survival a bit more difficult. For players who would rather focus on other things, the mausoleum can be delayed until much later in the game, but at the risk of losing some villager's memories.

This is one I have not seen yet. My tutorial is stuck on, "Teach one of your villagers to research." I have tried dragging three villagers to the research table. They have all obtained the title of "trainee scientist" but the question does not go away.

Have any of them been chased away from the lab yet?

I don't think so

Try making sure that there are heathens to chase them away, and the tutorial will tell you about that and move on.

I am running on windows 7 64 bit os. I have a mother that was 20 years old and she is now 23 and still is nursing the twins. Still has a 123 minutes to go. ran half the day before game was paused. Will she eventually let go of the kids?

I lured the rascal into the lab with butterflies and once he chased the scientists around it moved on. Thanks for the help

niceb2u, please see this topic for several possibilities and solutions.

I'm seeing a similar bug. Often times when I use a god power on pause, the power doesn't actually activate and the game thinks I did. However, when I unpause, the god powers don't activate. Quitting and restarting fixes the problem. I actually encounter it when I use the butterflies or bees.

Were you two paused when you used the god power? I suspect the issue is with a paused state.

Edit: Oh yea, Windows 7 here as well.

I have a villager that got pregnant even though I was at my limit of 95. She in stuck at 123 minutes of nursing and has been for several days. I rejuv'ed her and she is now a 5 year old carrying a baby and is still stuck at 123 minutes (I am at the fastest setting). Any one else have a villager stuck with a child. She is not the heathen Mom that I converted as that turned out to be a guy.

Olycupman: See Problem With ursing Mon-thread.

Here is the link to the nursing mom thread, which explains that issue.

I'm having a problem not being able to complete a phase of the game that was mentioned in topic "The filthy encampment". I've completed all puzzles, tech, collections, have pop of 106 and all but 11 trophies. I'm running on windows 7.



Maybe and island event will bring me broken building to finish the trophy, and another will bring a heathen that will allow me to finish the above problem?

hmm weird, I closed my game (running on slow) shortly after this then just opened it again. My pop is now 111 up from 106, no new nursing moms....

One thing I noticed. The little heathen rascal. I hit him with bees, he started to run. He was in the waterfall and I hit him with lightening. At this point, he froze and would not move until I closed and reopened the game. His Actions kept cycling but flashed so fast I could not read it.

Another thing. I had a sick woman. I placed another woman on her to heal. It said Embracing and she ran away. She was magically healed by love I guess.

Hi..I'm having a problem with the blind totem.



Help?

It's important to know at which step the process went awry. Had you already

Yikes! I didn't realize that was a spoiler...sorry!

Anyway, no I hadn't, and that solved the problem.

Thanks!

Am not sure if this is a bug in the programming or if it is a nasty trick the designers created to get my goat. BUT, this trouble is REALLY annoying: i have 37 Esteemed Elders (they have mastered Food, Construction and Science) that will not learn doctoring as the area i have in which to place them to learn is VERY small. i can place the first 6 people on the doctor's mat, if i am VERY careful or else they embrace and run away. In the meantime, there is NO MORE ROOM to get the other 31 villagers to learn doctoring. By the time the last 2 of the six i first placed move a bit up onto the mat to make room for a possible CAREFUL laying down of 2 more villagers, the first villagers are already done NOT LEARNING and move down into the space so i have 30 some villagers that cannot do anything for the village except embrace and run away. Fixing this with a patch would be great but i doubt you will do so. Pausing and re-pausing and grabbing and re-grabbing is getting very vexing. Why did you design such a small area for the healing area when all other areas have huge placement points? The last five years i have been very happy with LDW but this point of frustration has me to the point today where i am thinking of deleting all the games for good. Just to spite LDW. Bad enough that Virtual Families was frustrating to the point i stopped playing it due to inability to get trophies for triplets, final collections, partners of same work path, etc. I thought that with VV4, things were on the up and up again but now with this VV5's hiccoughs (this includes Devotion not available for other villagers to learn once all blue faced critters have been perverted to believe in the hand - and no, i learned that the retired chief does NOT help others learn to be devoted to the hand) am to the point i feel it is better to watch TV than play these games. And lastly, i have a list of "general questions" that have been sitting in a separate forum that no one has answered. Is it possible i have been iggied? Ah well, maybe it is just time for me to move on and away from here.

Seriously vexed,
Brian aka OptiTron

I am sorry that you're upset with us, Brian. We are working as hard as we can behind the scenes to work out issues with the game during the soft launch, but there are limits to what 3 people can do.

We have open bug records for most of the issues you mentioned, and we are working on them. I can't promise fixes for them all, because I don't control those decisions.

As for your other posts of questions, they haven't been ignored. We generally leave it up to fellow players to share experiences, since Arthur does not like us to get too detailed with explanations of how the games work - it takes away from the mystery and imaginative play that he wants to foster in the games.

Gotchya! Well, i understand and am happy at least that you replied! Hmmm, is this a sign of the times where we want happiness NOW and at the cost of others' comfort? i apologize for coming off so rude, but geez loo eez i was frustrated. If there is a fix on the way, i am happy! i have put my games on hold and will await LDW's patch(s). Again i apologize and again i thank you for being so kind. As for my other questions, seems no one has the answers to them as it has been more than 2 weeks since i first posted most of them. i can see Arthur's point of view but no one seems to have any answers to my "odd" queries. But heck, i can wait until maybe someone else can figger out what i can't!

p.s. ONly 3? Man, with THAT in my memory banks, it is amazing as all getout what you guys have done! Kudos big time! wish i had that schooling!

OptiTron, for medical training, try dropping the villagers on the very corner of the mat nearest the blue totem. It takes only a moment for them to walk around to the table, leaving that corner open for you to drop the next villager. I was having the same 'embracing' problem in med center, but I found that spot worked well as a solution

Easy to say, and i have done that. BUT see? i have 37, yes 37, villagers that only have doctoring to learn. Too many - and once you have this many you will see too - as once they start to learn, they shake their heads and walk right to that little lone corner so i cannot place any more there. Every chance i get to put one there, it seems two that refuse to learn take that place. Trust me, see how many villagers you can get that are ready to learn doctoring and you will see my frustration. But LadyCFI has informed me that they are working on this problem. During that time, i have paused my games (all LDW) and have taken my fun elsewhere for the nonce.

My population is at 101 and I have had no trouble training doctors. I literally have dozens and dozens of Master Doctors. Of course once a villager masters in one area I immediately switch their preferences to another field so that everyone has a well-rounded education. There are many ways to play the game OptiTron. Sounds like you chose to educate your villagers a different way. Here's a tip:
Thank you redneeckgirl for the tip about the corner of the hospital, I don't think I was aware of that area.

I don't think the size of the area for training doctors has changed much since VV4. I have never tried training 37 villagers at once in medicine, though, either in VV4 or VV5. Once they've reached trainee level, I'd try moving them out for a breather, and making room for training up a few more. When the game is off they will carry on learning , provided medicine is checked as their preferred skill. The space issue will of course not apply.

Thanks MissKathy, but all my guys have already learned and Mastered all other fields (except those unable to learn devotion). And arnie, thank you too, but in VV4 if you dropped the doctors-to-be anywhere on the mat, they did not automatically try to breed. They automatically instead tried to learn doctoring. Not so in this case. Again am wondering if it is a Mac thing? i COULD learn patience, HAH - NOT!!! Too old already! <G> But yeah, if i let everyone just wander about, and focus on only having 6 learn at a time, it is doable, but very time consuming because again i have to find every one that hasn't learned and again train and place them... a lot of searching and pausing and boredom! Ah well, the pains of trying to have everyone a Master of All Trades before they pass on!

You're welcome OptiTron. I am also on a Mac... an iMac running "Tiger" (version 10.4.11). I know exactly the "pain" that you're going through as I went through it in VV4. I started a new topic that you may or may not find helpful. You can find it here.

I'm have a PC OptiTron, and the training spot on my medical spot is really tiny. I had the same problem you had, of the villagers getting confused & thinking I wanted them to have romance, lol. Now I just train 2 or 3 at a time, and as soon as it shows "trainee" I put another on. The first ones will go back on their own.

Another area where the hotspot is tiny is when the villagers are uncovering the mausoleum. Dropping more than one or two there gets them embracing rather than working, as well.

Yea, that one was problematic for me, however there is a spot on the right (where the pile of dirt appears at one point) which quickly opens up, but even then.....

my heathen master builder mata converted in an event and now i cant get the last necklace piece. is there any way to solve this?

ps. i can see into the forest and he is not there.

A few other people have posted about that, too, and it's one of the bugs we're working on.

My pregnant Moms are staying pregnant! Help!

You'll find the help you need in this post.

Thanks - I could not get any of the previous links to work. I have not paused or unpaused a lot - just once when I had to go do something and I only moved from slow to fast mode and made one nursing mother young. I am going to see if mating a young mother works now though as the 3 that are stuck may have been warped (when not pregnant) hope it goes away really do not want to restart!

I can't reduce my game VV5 from full screen As when I clicked on done after taking it off would not closed, so I had to put it back to full screen before for it to work it was closed after clicking on done and it responded on the full screen again.

That's not a bug in the game. The system requirements are different for VV5 than they were for our previous games. Since the game has been made larger, it now requires a display resolution larger than 1024x768 in order to run in windowed mode.