LEGO Rock Raiders Construction of buildings impossible after some time

[rockme123]

Hi to all,

 

I rediscovered Rock Raiders and can successfully install and play it on my Asus EeePC 1005HA (Intel Atom N280, Win XP 32bit) without any problems.

But there's a problem concerning gameplay: Whenever a mission becomes complex with a high amount of discovered caves and with a lot of buildings, the workers become bearly controllable.

I tried to build a Super Teleport in order to fulfill my mission, the workers bring barriers and the raw materials. When everything is complete (checked: 20/20 and 3/3 materials and all barriels brought, noone standing there on the ground), simply NOTHING happens! Actually, the bulding should be raised now, but nothing happens.

 

I "removed" every single worker, disabled all the acitivities in the priority list but "Building" and reteleported a few workers. But still nothing. Some of the workers are idling, some go grabbing some materials far away. Stupid.

Even when I try to do another building, it's the same. Enough raw materials are available. It's the same with metal bars on the ground. I give the command to build, maybe a few materials are brought or the assignment is completely ignored. The result is the same: Nothing happens!

This did not just happen to one try, it's a general problem. It's simply impossible to solve the missions without being able to make buildings. Like already told, in the beginning everything works fine, but after - let's say 2 hours of playing - this problem appears everytime.

 

I can still remeber ~10 years ago I despaired of the same issue. A friend of mine had the same problem, so we had to stop playing without having found a solution for it.

I could not find any official patches or updates for the game. I play the original game without any mods or anything.

I'm happy to having brought it working on my laptop that easily...would be happy to be able to play it!

 

Do you have any idea of what I'm doing wrong? Would be happy about every assistance and advice I checked the FAQ and the forum but couldn't find something useful for me. It reckon this is a general problem, not only affecting me. Are you able to finish advanced missions?

 

Thank you!

Best wishes from Germany to all the other Rock Raiders in the world

rockme123

[Fush]

Do you use small transport trucks? The trucks have a tendency to drop too much ore on the building site, and the building will not appear if there is too much ore. Try removing some ore.

[Cirevam]

We have a term for what you are experiencing: Idleness Syndrome. Rock Raiders will tend to ignore orders after you play for a long time or drill the entire level. Some of us think this happens because raiders check every single tile in the level when checking for crystals and other things to pick up. Eventually, they check so many tiles that they get confused and can't do anything.

You might be able to change a few things that can help prevent this from happening so soon. If your game is prepared for modding, open the Lego.cfg file and look for "TextureUsage" near the top. Change the value from 31457280 to something larger. Since you are using an EeePC, you might change it to 61457280. This allocates nearly twice as much memory for the game to use.

The other thing you can do is change your play style. Instead of strip-mining everything in the level, collect as much ore as you can before drilling into new caverns. This will allow you to create buildings more quickly, which means idleness syndrome will not be a big problem.

[rockme124]

Hi,

I needed to create a new account due to too many login tries and I did not want to wait so long for my reply.

 

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Thank you so far.

It's interesting, in one case the removal of crytsal and ore on the ground worked, but in others it didn't. It's good to know that I'm not the only one who is suffering from the bugs.

Yes, I used two small transport trucks and I suppose that caused the whole trouble. Anyway, I now consider two trucks to be not that easy to handle, one is actually enough. Playing with highest priority of collecting ore and crystals made it working for me now, exactly as you told! Additionally I raised the game speed in the options so the increased waiting time is no longer a problem.

I will spare myself the examination with modding the game, because without expanding my mining area that much everything seemed to work sufficiently to achieve the missions' goals. (I finally was successful at one mission, will check on the others) I will catch up if it will become necessary.

 

There are not that much games which are both that genius and easy. Playing other games which are older than ten years would probably be quite boring. Plus, it reminds me of how the game fascinated me in my childhood.   I wrote my old friend, I'm pretty sure that he will be interested as I am, hopefully having found a "work-around" after years 

By the way Rock Raiders is the only installed game on my netbook which does not stutter. (Old games does obviously have their charm!) - But that's offtopic.

 

Thanks a lot!

rockme124