Creative Assembly Odd and frustrating CTD

Odd and frustrating CTD - I need help

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.

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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.

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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

Code:

; 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

Code:

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

Code:

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.

Code:

{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.

Re: Odd and frustrating CTD - I need help

For some reason the descr_strat would not show properly.

Re: Odd and frustrating CTD - I need help

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...

Re: Odd and frustrating CTD - I need help

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).