FactionType {saba}, not a valid faction type?

**Atraphoenix** · 03-02-2009, 12:01

When I was using ATV-TW to check my ancillaries that it could not find any! But my mod still does not work.
It found many missing ";" in the trait triggers and it gave this warning : "FactionType {saba}, not a valid faction type".
As I lost my hope with the validator to correct my mod, I will handle by the classical method, trial & error.

I just wondered this code was put intentionally or the validator is correct.

P.S. my mod does not work although I get no error messages. I will go crazy!

**bovi** · 03-02-2009, 12:10

The factiontype saba is what was the senate in vanilla. If you haven't got Saba modded into your mod, that will fail.

**Atraphoenix** · 03-02-2009, 12:19

I did not mod the saba under my mod at the moment.
I only modded AS, Romani, Parthian, Makedon, KH, Baktria, Ptolemies, Pontos, Epirot ancillaries.
In my first mod I only modded romani and Parthia It works fine.

It is a trait error message from ATV-TW validator. I never touch traits cos It is hard to mod them.
So I modded ancillaries but validator says no errors with ancillary files.
and my current mod does not enter main campaign.
and no error message I get.
How can I track ancillary files for if they have any errors or not.
Otherwise I will have track each ancillary and its description one by one that means for hours! I would rather to write the codes from the beginning.

**bovi** · 03-02-2009, 12:48

So as I was saying, you can't refer to Saba when you don't have Saba as a faction. You need to remove the references to Saba from the traits (triggers).

You can also use the trait/ancillary validation tool I made, if you like. It's part of eb.jar. Get Traits.java from that, change to point to your RTW and run it.

(That is as detailed instructions as I am going to give for it).

**Atraphoenix** · 03-02-2009, 14:17

how can I find it can you pm me the link etc?

**bovi** · 03-02-2009, 15:31

I can't give you a link to your own hard drive. It's part of the EB installation.

**Atraphoenix** · 03-02-2009, 12:14

I get no error messages, I cannot track the errors. My mod does not open EB opens but does not enters to campaign menu.
I tried to use ATV-TW validator but it says there is no errors in ancillary files

P.S. Of course the game works when I change EDA EA with the backup. feedbacks from my mod users says it does not open even after 30 mins.