Also the game keeps crashing again. Do I have to download the fix before each new game? I had started a new game.

Leila

Zire 71 and Tungsten C

Did you completely uninstall your old version of the game (and the savegame) before you installed the fix?

No you only need to install the fixed version once.

where do we get the fixed version from??

You can find it here:
www.ldwsoftware.com/VillageSimFixed.zip
It's a stability fix for people who are having crashes. There are plans to release a Village Sim update.

sml here,
tungsten c

i am not having any particular problem with vanishing villagers, yet (i have 'swept' a couple of them off the screen and into nowheresville with my stylus

should i install the fix, anyway, in case?

thanks,

s.

I have been playing Village Sim since the day I got it--about 9 days now. Last night, for the first time, I had some missing villagers, as I have seen mentioned in the forums. At the time, I had 65 villagers, all research done, lots of full-time doctors. One of my oldsters had died; no problem--she was 82. Then another one died who was 79--and 5 more villagers, all under 60 died at the same time. (I keep an eye on the old ones; they've been around longer and I become quite fond of them.) No message about a plague or anything. Then when I was helping them make some babies--I had just put a man on a woman---poof! she vanished right before my eyes! Another one vanished at the same time but I didn't see who (I think it may have been another villager "Going Indoors"), and suddenly I was down 8 villagers, with 2 graves missing. I've never had a problem with any going missing before now. I generally have the max allowable number of villagers, so they're pretty easy to keep track of. Oh, I also had 33000+ food at the time, so I know they didn't starve. And I've had Spirituality 2 since before my first villagers died, so my number of deaths and graves always matched before.

I tried to post this is a support email, but I kept getting an "Inavalid email address" message whenever I hit the "Send" button.

Forgot to mention my Palm type--it's a Palm Tungsten E.

The special fix release will not help with disappearing villagers. It's only a stability fix for people who were crashing when they tried to start a new game.

Thanks very much for the details! The vanishing villager bug seems to be somehow related to deaths/burials. It would be very interesting to know if anyone has ever had a villager disappear in this way during the early part of the game, before any villagers die.