RTR Crashes to CTD when city rebels

[RTRArmenia]

ive been playing with rome for a while,and its been hard since greece took macedionia and thrace and had around 20 full armies around patavium i had to slowly destroy, i entered gaul with 2 armies fighting them and reached all the way to Narbo when i saw Carthage my enemy owned all of Iberia, Now Carthage, Greece, and Gaul are attacking me and been severly defeated so ive invaded sparta corinth ellis, with the help of my allies Egypt, i took all of Sicily and have been fighting the combined armies of Gaul and Iberian Carthage in the west when i removed my troops from lilybuem cuzz they were getting restless so i wanted to exterminate the population to get money and make em happy, when the city rebels my game CTD's. I am in the year 191 so ive played alot and my game has the town square's which specifically say it is there to prevent a CTD when a city becomes rebels, but it still CTD's, any help? owe i have RTR platinum 1.9, rtw patched to 1.5 and barbarian invasion to wat its supposed to be aswell,

[Vrosivs Avgvstvs Rakvs]

Ok, I've also experienced such CTD's... And you should do what I did:
Load the save just before your CTD, then take any of your armies and move them somewhere else, anywhere, and get 1 of your generals in the town out of it, then try ending the turn... If this doesn't work, do it again + move another army somewhere else... This is how I am solving that CTD, I know it's funny but it works

[RTRArmenia]

when this happened i did so much, i moved a few armies around, i even made myself do a battle with greek forces, i took a city and still CTD's, i mean if i put the army back in the city it wont, but i really need to exterminate this population because its past 24,000 un happy and is forcing me to keep 15 units in that one city alone, and i prefer to move those troops to the frontline

[Vrosivs Avgvstvs Rakvs]

Can you attach your savegame and let me try to figure it out? If I find a way I'll tell you...

[RTRArmenia]

im no computer wizz, so how do i do that? =) and thanks alot man, cuzz of this problem ive lost all interest to play RTR, but i really wanna play this game after all ive done

[Vrosivs Avgvstvs Rakvs]

Okay, click on the "Add Reply", then you'll see a bunch of icons (B,I,U, smiley, text color, hyperlink) and just right from the smiley icon is the attachment icon, click on it, then select your savegame
No worries, bro, I'll do what I can to help you

[RTRArmenia]

it doesnt let me

[Vrosivs Avgvstvs Rakvs]

oh, sorry, i forgot to tell you, you must .rar or .zip it first
you have a list of supported file extensions

[RTRArmenia]

how do i do that?

[Vrosivs Avgvstvs Rakvs]

Do you have WinRar program? If you do, then right-click on your save game and click on the books icon with the text "add to (filename).rar". Then attach it here. If not, download WinRar first, then do these steps

[RTRArmenia]

is that it?

[Vrosivs Avgvstvs Rakvs]

Yes, let me try it...

[Vrosivs Avgvstvs Rakvs]

Hmm, strange, CTD doesn't wait for the end of the turn, it activates as soon as I press the "End Turn" button... This has never happened to me... I tried a few things, but still, the CTD occurs...
Sadly, I cannot help you. Besides, this mod is a few years old, and those modders that worked on it probably are not here on TWC anymore, or have moved on to other projects... :/
I suggest you to download RTR VII - Fate Of Empires, or ExRM... Just so you wait until the RTR VII GC gets finished...
Sorry again bro, but there is not much I can do to help you with this...

[RTRArmenia]

thanks for trying bro, anyone else out there that might have an idea? really wanna continue this game

[Carados]

Why are you letting it rebel? I put the tax on low and left it and nothing happened. You have 1 turn left for your imperial palace, wait that out and your unrest should be a little more manageable.

Also, exterminating a settlement costs you more in the long run. Don't do it except in exceptional circumstances.

[RTRArmenia]

ill get more money, and ill be able to disband/ship these units to my frontlines btu like this they are just eating up my treasury, i know it does harm in the long run cuzz now my other cities have to put in more money for troop upkeep but these people will be happy and when this city gets the palace and gets to like 35,000 people, extrmination helps

[Carados]

Yeah but you have one turn left before you get the palace? Try it. Put your guys back in and leave it on low tax (not high tax, you can keep rebellions from happening for longer on low tax). Come next turn your happiness should be 100%+ Heck, it was 70% without a garrison before the palace.

You won't get more money. You kill 15'000 people, you have 15'000 less people to tax. If garrisons are a problem then ship around some cheap troops. Peltasts/Velites do an acceptable job, the Illyrian/Gallic warbands are probably the best though.

[RTRArmenia]

that will fix this problem, and its what i am going to do, but than later on if a rebellion cant be helped my game will crash and i wont be able to get around it

[Carados]

The perils of RTRPE. As VAR says, no one works on the mod anymore. It's finished for all intents and purposes.

[Vae victis]

Are CTDs a common occurrence when you let a city rebel? I was planning to use this strategy if I had unmanageable cities, especially with the barbarian factions who dont have as many public order buildings.

I am going to be playing this game for a while since I just re-installed it. I will post any relevant CTD questions to this thread.