Crash Bug?

[Gloater]

I have a game at turn 138 right now with both the auto save and the save game corrupted. It looks like the game was fine at turn 137 without crashing, then failed at 138. I even went back to the 137 turn version of the game on the auto save, played out the following turn, and then hit next turn... And as soon as it flipped to 138, both the auto save and the named save are now corrupted and will not launch. I'm not using any mods, so this is the base game that apparently is tired of playing Russia and is ready to move on to another run.

I like the game, but recognizing how much time the turns in the latter part of the game can take, I'm wondering how much time I want to put back into a run. Is there a bug that causes this? Better yet, is there a way to fix the save files? If this is a thing that can just happen, how do people go about avoiding it? Just play shorter games / 100 turn limit goals to avoid playing the much more involved latter stages of the game managing much larger empires... or perhaps to avoid something that happened on turn 138 in my game (a particular technology researched, perhaps?)

[HazardHawk]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3061204310

The full and abiding current truth and how to work with it.

To answer specifically, it is a pathfinding error usually out of our reach to change ending that game.

[johna]

Thank you for posting this.