Strange CTd and a ghost General

[bovi]

It's probably an EB problem (or more likely an RTW one), but using Alex means I can't try the savegame. I'm not saying I've got the time for it now though, as is obvious from the very delayed response here.

The disappeared general sounds similar to the army-within-army and AI ghost army issue of RTW. We still have no idea why that happens. Your best bet is to reload an earlier save where it's not happened yet, if it's causing you any trouble. If not, I'd just leave him be, or teleport him off to some remote island to die of old age if that's possible.

The revolt CTD should be possible to work around by the suggestions listed in the frequent issues. If it's in fact the revolt causing it, of course.

[anubis88]

Hello, i have a related question.

In my new campaign on BI.exe with pahlava, i'm trying to make a strong Roman empire via the Force diplomacy and teleporting characters.

In short, i gave to Rome a bunch of cities in Iberia, while teleported the Carthaginian and Lusotanan armies to Ireland, and teleported a few roman armies which did do anything to spain.

So i had to move a Character with the name Gnaivs Avrelivs Cotta, and i did, but unfortunatly i didn't see that there were to romans with exactly the same name, so the guy that appeared in Spain was not the one i wanted, but a random FM with few units, whom has become invisible as the original post says.

So what i could figure out, i probably moved him from a city. Now i'm wondering what are the possibilities of me getting a permanent CTD out of this? I have a save game a few years back, and i'm wondering should i go back to that time, or continue with the present campaign.

I've playing for a couple of turns, and got no CTD as of yet.

So please, tell me what should i do.

Thank you very much

[bovi]

You won't have any problem until he enters a battle I think. It's a ticking bomb and you should revert to a savegame before you did that teleport.

[burn_again]

There are safe ways to transport characters whose internal name you don't know (especially Romans, but also all factions like Carthage, Sweboz and the Nomad factions whose internal names often differ from displayed names).
If you play Rome and you want to move a character, you should test it first with a cheat that can't cause any harm, like "character_reset", which gives movement points back. You type character_reset "Gaivs Romanvs", then GaivsA till GaivsK, until the character you want is selected. Then you know his internal name and you can use move_character safely.
If you play another faction and want to move a roman character, you should save your game before you use move_character. If the right FM is moved, everything is fine. If it is another FM or a ghost general, you can try again until you find the right name, then you reload and move only the FM you wanted to move.

[anubis88]

Damn, i still can't get to teleport the roman characters. They have like 3 full stack armies sitting in Corsica, and god knows they need them elsewhere.

I tried for i guy named Spvrivs Avrelivs Cotta, but i've moved only a general of the same name who was probably in a city, since he's a ghost and had to exit the game.

I've tried all the letters, from SpvrivsA Romanvs to SpvrivsZ Romavs, but it never found the character. Could someone explain precisly what i must tipe?

i go like this:
move_character "SpvrivsA Romanvs"39,39 what do i do wrong? Without the A it works great

[macsen rufus]

Interesting, I just found a 'ghost roman' whilst trying to de-crash my Saba game. Long story short, Saba game was crashing during Roman AI turn so I took control of the Romans from the year before and had a look at what they're up to. Whilst doing this I happened to move a Roman FM out of a city (in the old-fashioned, walking-on-his-own-two-feet way) so I could raise some mercenaries - soon as I hit the raise-troops button, he faded away before my very eyes! And funnily enough, it wasn't the mercenary panel that came up but the troop-training from the city he used to be in

After that I could only find him through the characters list, and guess what, there were three Roman FMs of the same name. So, I ordered him back into the city (though he refused to move) and next turn, after a reload, I got a message saying he'd heroically died.

From that point it CTDed if I tried to get control of Saba again, or if I even scrolled the map as Romani... Most peculiar, but if it's any help to anyone trying to debug this, that's my 2c worth

[Cute Wolf]

Just curious, what region did the Roman generals was abducted by alien? (become a ghost general)

Maybe both of you just found some glitchy area at the map