Either some vital data was lost in transit between players, or your data/game version don't match perfectly (it could also be caused by a user attempting to cheat, but that's not very likely).

The way the game works is that everyone is basically a server unto themselves. The other players send data over and your machine gives the appropriate orders/movements to the "them" on your copy of the game. Because of this, if some of those orders get lost or the same action does not cause the exact same result on all players' machines, you end up losing sync.

Once a game has desynced, it cannot be recovered. As time goes on, what you see and what another player sees will diverge more and more, even up to a point where the entire outcome of the game may differ. So if you get a desync, there is not much point in continuing to play that match.

Well I got Polish friend also, who changed his game language by replacing original US language file by Polish file. At the end of the game (when citadel was destroyed) he ALWAYS got desync (sometimes in the middle of game also). When he repaced this file again (to get original state), all worked perfectly. He tried this trick few times and replacing file to Polish always caused problems. I dunno if that's Polish language file issue or you just shouldn't replace any in-game files (including language). But im 100% sure it's something wrong here.

This works! For anyone trying to replicate this:

- In the demigod folder, there is another folder called "loc"

- Rename the existing language you're using i.e. "PL" (polish) to something like "PL Copy"

- Copy the US folder, and rename this to PL

The idea is of course to make DG think that it's still the PL version, but in fact, using the US version.

Nice one Poul!

I mentioned this to our loc testing people yesterday and it's looking like Atari never ran the Polish loc past us. So we will need to look into this.