Creation Download Failed Error

[Ployt]

I've been getting this error while trying to play/ edit my own adventures in GA, can anyone help? (Details & tl;dr below.)


[Details]
When I go into the adventure creator to edit or make a new adventure, everything works fine, including test mode. But sometimes after saving and exiting, whenever I try to play/ edit my adventures, it starts to download my creation and then immediately says "Creation download failed."

I've noticed it only seems to happen in certain adventures. When I try to edit these creations, the game tells me some assets will be replaced and my score will not be credited. If I save the adventure with these or certain other assets, the game seems to work fine, but not with others.

It might be possible that the assets causing this problem use creepy & cute pack parts, but I'm not sure. Is Galactic Adventures not compatible with other expansion packs, or is it something else?

I've tried searching online for an answer, but all I can find are discussions on different problems or unanswered posts.


[TL;DR]
I know this game is old, but most of it seems to work fine. I just don't understand why I'm getting this one problem. It makes using my own creations in adventures impossible half the time and I don't know why. Please help if you can.

[Chocice75]

GA is compatable with other expansions, you're probably sharing an adventure which has modded creations. (after attempting to share the modded creation)

[Ployt]

Hold on this is weird, I think I found a way around the problem. I still don't understand it though.

I did a few tests with other creations including stuff made by other players (I had mostly been using Maxis creations along with my own). The only creations that were causing problems were some buildings and vehicles I created myself in an old spore playthrough. Back then I created these from scratch and without mods (unless you count the Creepy & Cute Parts expansion pack).

I opened these up in their editors, made some small changes (like moving a part one inch), and then saved. And when I tried to edit/ play my adventure with them again, it worked.

I still have no idea why it wasn't working before, but I guess this process works for now. If anyone could explain to me why it was doing this I'd appreciate it, but at least my adventures work.

[Chocice75]

It's because of the "autoshare" glitch. The game use to automatically share creations in the main game, but that broke for some reason, and those creations which were autoshared after it broke aren't shared properly.

[Ployt]

Oh, thats's odd. Sort of makes sense though, I always thought the auto-share feature felt buggy. Back during my playthrough it would always automatically label every other creation I made as "Shared". The weird part though is using creations that weren't automatically labled shared works fine. Only the other ones seem to cause problems, almost like they're corrupted.

Still not sure why it does this, but at least editing and saving creations again isn't too difficult. There's not a way to disable auto-sharing is there? Cause I can't seem to find a setting for it in options.

[Chocice75]

Log out whenever you play the main game. That's the only solution.
You can also edit the description to reshare the creations.

[Ployt]

Alright, thanks. It's not a perfect solution, but probably the best we can do with an old game. At least if anyone else ever runs into this problem I can link them this.

I'll go ahead and mark this topic as solved.