I opted to try to reproduce the problem on both a unstable Devuan and Debian VM and it worked as intended. It's likely that there is something up with my system then that's causing this problem. If I can figure out what in specific it is, I'll let you know in case its an incompatible package.
Sep 5, 2021, 09:32 by a...@debian.org: > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > Hello, > > On Sun, 5 Sep 2021 03:36:44 +0200 (CEST) joyfulma...@tutanota.com wrote: > >> Package: freeorion >> Version: 0.4.10.2-1 >> Severity: normal >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> * What led up to the situation? >> In the unstable version, starting a game with AI fails to allow a >> game to start. >> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or >> ineffective)? >> I attempted recompiling the game and researching the bug to see if >> I was missing a dependency, however this resulted in nothing >> worthwhile occouring. >> * What was the outcome of this action? >> 'PythonAI failed to initialize' in console and "The connection to the >> server has been lost" as an error from the game >> * What outcome did you expect instead? >> I expected a game to start with AI enabled >> >> >> >> -- System Information: >> Distributor ID: Devuan >> Description: Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (chimaera) >> Release: 4 >> Codename: n/a >> Architecture: x86_64 >> > > The single player mode with AI works for me. I noticed you are using Devuan > not > Debian. Can you reproduce the problem in Debian unstable and tell me the exact > steps to reproduce the problem? > > Regards, > > Markus >