How to start a completely new game

[Jeffreyac]

Hi folks,

Decided to start fresh, so started a new game, but when I started with the new character ('new game' from the main menu) I saw that the house I had purchased and repaired in the hub was already repaired, but not for sale, showing owned by the Shinobi thieves.

I figured maybe I needed to do an import - so I saved the 'new game', then imported it, thinking this would reset everything - nope, building still there, already repaired.

So, I guess my extremely noobish question is - how do I truly begin a new game with a fresh start, and a brand new world reset to it's default condition? Clearly I'm missing something...

[DanOramA]

Try restarting the game and then make a new game. Something like thia happened to me too when I just choose new game when I was already playing. My entire town was still in the world.

[Jeffreyac]

Just for fun, ran to my old base location, and it was gone, so at least that didn't carry over.

Deleted all my old saves, so can't be anything there...

But after quitting and restarting the game, and selecting new game from the main menu (with no saved games available) the storm house in the hub which I bought and rebuilt last time (and was planning on making my base this time) was already rebuilt and not for sale.

I'm stumped. Can't figure out how to force it to reset to new game condition.

[Jeffreyac]

Just went and checked, the buildings I had purchased in Squin had reverted back to ruins. Just the one in Hub seems to be persistent.

...I'm not imagining this, am I? The storm house in Hub really was ruins last game, pretty sure - certain I bought it and made a home there!

[DanOramA]

No idea then, the only built stormhouse should be the bar in the hub if I remember it correctly

[Jeffreyac]

Well, I'm stumped. Deleted all saves, closed out game, restarted computer, new game from main menu (with no other options available) and the hub stormhouse is still rebuilt and owned by the thieves, not for sale.

This bugs me - it's the largest house in Hub, and only one of it's kind available, which is why I bought it the first time. If anyone else has any ideas, I'd love to hear them!

Think I'll try saving this guy at game start and importing with various options to see if anything changes, though to be honest I did that already with some of the other saves with no effect, so not really hopeful.


edit: nope, nothing. I'm almost frustrated enough to uninstall/reinstall, except I'm at work and don't want to do that without my home connection. Seems a little extreme, but I really want a fresh start for certain, and the presence of the building makes me wonder what else got carried over.

[happy]

eerr...broken buildings and even the nature of some shops may vary upon a new game, there's a bit of rng every time.

[Jeffreyac]

Hmmm... Well, guess that could be it - though I've restarted several times while troubleshooting this, and so it seems to be that luck of the draw would mean that I'd have seen the stormhouse in ruins on one of those restarts. But random is random, so maybe that's it and I've just been unlucky and not realized.

...just to be clear, you're saying the buildings in the hub are not always destroyed on game start? Thought that was one of the constants, that all the buildings were destroyed and the player could buy most of them and rebuild the hub if they chose....

[happy]

I'm not saying that as i also believe they should be all destroyed, i dunno man,the hub should be all ruins but the shop.

posted after a quick read, my intervention is irrelevant.

[Jeffreyac]

Ah, no worries... :) something must be screwed up a little then, but figured I'd start again anyway. Going to skip buying in the hub and maybe base out of Squinn, there's a few ruined buildings there I can fix. Dislike working n the longhouses as I always feel cramped, but should be able to make it work if I can get the research bench to fit.

[jinnro195]

Are you playing with any mods at all? It's been a while since I played vanilla but I vaguely recall ruins/shops/houses slightly changing locations on a new/imported game.

[Jeffreyac]

Also, just realized I keep saying stormhouse in this post - I meant the stationhouse, the big building... :)

[Jeffreyac]

A few mods, yes, so it could very well be messing with something. Nothing really huge, but I do have several installed. The intent of my list was to maintain close to vanilla, but I have a couple of the economy mods, an attack slot mod, and a few others.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

import and uncheck import with buildings..
this is a common issue if you start a new game while playing a old save.

the import will remove all owned buildings.
it is recommended that you start a new game from the main game menu. not while in the game as the game doesnt unload all the data.

[Jeffreyac]

Hmmmm.... I did that - started a new game from main menu. Also tried import with buildings unchecked (all of the boxes unchecked, actually....)

Something else a little odd, to me - it's day 10 and I haven't seen any bandits. No hungry ones, no dust, not even an animal attack. true, I've been staying close to the Hub, mining and training up my new recruits, but in previous games by now some hungry bandits would have shown up (if nothing else, I could have looted the bodies for equipment). I know this is probably coincidence, but just seems odd... :)

[Shidan]

I'd definitely try turning off all mods, then testing it. The Shinobi Thieves shouldn't even be capable of owning the Stationhouse in vanilla, it doesn't have an interior layout for them.

If that fixes it, then you can try turning them on slowly, and figure out which one was causing the problem.