Odd and frustrating CTD - I need help

[Seleucos I Nicator]

I have a CTD that is pestering me where ever I go with the new maps bdh and I are working on. This is the Sicily alternative campaign that will be featured RTR 7.0, along with others.

The game CTD's at the end of the loading sequence, when the map should show up. It does this whenever I try to code in a faction. Right now I am stuck with the romans_senate. What bothers me is that I did manage to get Carthage in, but it CTD's when I try to play as them. It does not when I am the Senate.

https://img364.imageshack.us/img364/9319/agrigento5bf.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

https://img364.imageshack.us/img364/807/liparacopy7nl.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Then I go to implement the romans_julii. I do so and it CTD's the same way, even with the senate now. I then think there is a problem with the number of factions. So I then implement the greek_cities. Still a CTD. I am at a loss.

https://img364.imageshack.us/img364/11/mapregions1zy.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

https://img388.imageshack.us/img388/9500/mapgroundtypescopy6lq.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

https://img364.imageshack.us/img364/8020/mapheights3sf.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

I have looked at every line of code, but I must have missed something. Something is mocking me in the files. I know it.

I will show the files, they are short as I have not gotten very far. Scroll inside the code to look at it all.

descr_regions.txt

; This file contains a variety of region information, in this format:
;
; region tag
; settlement tag
; default culture tag
; map RGB value
; comma-seperated resource list
; triumph point value
; base farm level
;

Latium
Roma
romans_senate
Syrians
52 13 198
coastal_forest, iron, wine, aor_greek, sea_lanes, major_port
5
5


Syria
Antioch
romans_senate
Syrians
119 179 195
coastal_forest, iron, wine, aor_greek, sea_lanes, major_port
5
7

Sicilia_Romanus
Messana
romans_senate
Sicani
163 81 103
dogs, pigs, italy, aor_greek, sea_lanes, major_port
5
8

Sicilia_Graecus
Syracuse
romans_senate
Syracusans
65 217 222
grain, timber, dogs, pigs, italy, aor_greek, sea_lanes, major_port
5
8

Sicilia_Poeni
Lilybaeum
romans_senate
Sicani
176 155 87
dogs, pigs, italy, aor_greek, sea_lanes, major_port
5
7

Halva
Mazarum
romans_senate
Sicani
146 98 119
dogs, pigs, italy, aor_greek, sea_lanes, major_port
5
5

Hypsa
Elaethium
romans_senate
Sicani
157 76 168
dogs, pigs, italy, aor_greek, sea_lanes, major_port
5
6

Hypsa_Minor
Sedinus
romans_senate
Sicani
236 33 68
dogs, pigs, italy, aor_greek, sea_lanes, major_port
5
6

Triveala
Selinuntiae
romans_senate
Sicani
92 111 95
dogs, pigs, italy, aor_greek, sea_lanes, major_port
5
7

Halysus
Alaba
romans_senate
Sicani
212 141 117
dogs, pigs, italy, aor_greek, sea_lanes, major_port
5
7

Minoa
Heraclea_Minoa
romans_senate
Sicani
62 65 117
dogs, pigs, italy, aor_greek, sea_lanes, major_port
5
5

Aeragas
Cena
romans_senate
Sicani
27 187 65
dogs, pigs, italy, aor_greek, sea_lanes, major_port
5
6

Cameratum
Agrigento
romans_senate
Syracusans
79 149 233
grain, dogs, pigs, aor_greek, sea_lanes, major_port
5
8

Cainia
Navale
romans_senate
Sicani
176 100 92
dogs, pigs, italy, aor_greek, sea_lanes, major_port
5
6

Herbessus
Herbessus
romans_senate
Sicani
144 163 117
dogs, pigs, italy, aor_greek, sea_lanes, major_port
5
6

Lipara
Lipara
romans_senate
Sicani
195 168 90
dogs, pigs, italy, aor_greek, sea_lanes, major_port
5
4

Bruttium
Rhegium
romans_senate
Campanians
193 174 179
lead, dogs, pigs, aor_greek, sea_lanes, major_port
5
5

descr_mercenaries.txt


pool New_Pool
regions Latium Syria Sicilia_Romanus Sicilia_Graecus Sicilia_Poeni Halva Hypsa Hypsa_Minor Triveala Halysus Minoa Aeragas Cameratum Cainia Herbessus Lipara Bruttium
unit aor asia archer, exp 0 cost 100 replenish 0.00 - 0.01 max 1 initial 0

descr_regions_and_settlement_names_lookup.txt


Latium
Roma
Syria
Antioch
Sicilia_Romanus
Messana
Sicilia_Graecus
Syracuse
Sicilia_Poeni
Lilybaeum
Halva
Mazarum
Hypsa
Elaethium
Hypsa_Minor
Sedinus
Triveala
Selinuntiae
Halysus
Alaba
Minoa
Heraclea_Minoa
Aeragas
Cena
Cameratum
Agrigento
Cainia
Navale
Herbessus
Herbessus
Lipara
Lipara
Bruttium
Rhegium

Imperial_campaign_regions_and_settlements_names.txt in text folder.


{Latium} Thermae
{Roma} Thermae
{Syria} Syria
{Antioch} Antioch
{Sicilia_Romanus} Sicilia Romanus
{Messana} Messana
{Sicilia_Graecus} Sicilia Graecus
{Syracuse} Syracuse
{Sicilia_Poeni} Sicilia Poeni
{Lilybaeum} Lilybaeum
{Halva} Halva
{Mazarum} Mazarum
{Hypsa} Hypsa
{Elaethium} Elaethium
{Hypsa_Minor} Hypsa Minor
{Sedinus} Sedinus
{Triveala} Triveala
{Selinuntiae} Selinuntiae
{Halysus} Halysus
{Alaba} Alaba
{Minoa} Minoa
{Heraclea_Minoa} Heraclea Minoa
{Aeragas} Aeragas
{Cena} Cena
{Cameratum} Cameratum
{Agrigento} Agrigento
{Cainia} Cainia
{Navale} Navale
{Herbessus} Herbessus
{Herbessus} Herbessus
{Lipara} Lipara
{Lipara} Lipara
{Bruttium} Bruttium
{Rhegium} Rhegium





Anyone have any ideas of what is wrong here? Anyone who finds a solution will get a nice spot in the RTR credits list. Thanks.

[Seleucos I Nicator]

For some reason the descr_strat would not show properly.

[JeromeGrasdyke]

The fact that the descr_strat doesn't show properly could be related to the problem. The Rome parser relies on the file being a windows text file - with both carriage return and newline (invisible) characters at the end of each line. If you use any Unix-derived tools or text editors which do not enforce this you could run into trouble, as the Unix standard is different. Opening the file in Notepad and then saving it would sort this out, if i remember correctly...

[khelvan]

If your program allows you to change encoding, I believe unicode (little endian) will help; it has worked for me, even at times where the standard text encoding doesn't work (EB's export_buildings.txt file is over 2.5MB and climbing, text editors choke on it in standard format).