Possible CTD Source

**LordElrond** · 01-20-2006, 02:40

Well at least its good that the olympics aren't bugged. Strange, I'll have to look at it more myself.

**Malrubius** · 01-20-2006, 03:30

Originally Posted by LordElrond

Well at least its good that the olympics aren't bugged. Strange, I'll have to look at it more myself.

I didn't say that.

I'll have to do some calculations to figure out the probabilities.

**LordElrond** · 01-20-2006, 05:40

My mistake.

**Malrubius** · 01-21-2006, 00:25

Ok, here are the probabilities:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

They probably need increasing.

**Malrubius** · 01-21-2006, 18:56

Thank you Thank you Thank you for putting me onto this bug!

Eureka!

This in Data\text\export_VnVs.txt:

Code:

{Seleukid_Olympionikes_effects_desc}

causes CTDs when you win the Olympics.

This:

Code:

{Seleukid_Olympionikes_effects_desc}
+1 Influence

Does not.

I had tested it all a long time ago, but since then we'd done special messages for each faction, and somehow I left out the effects for every single trait (well, with the way I generated them, if one was messed up, they all were). This is not something I wrote for my validation program to catch (I didn't even know it would CTD), so now I need to add something else to that.

Anyway, if you add that second line everywhere you have Olympionikes_effects_desc} in that file (just do a search for the bold text there), you shouldn't have any more CTDs from winning the Olympics.

**LordElrond** · 01-21-2006, 19:35

Well thats good news. One less CTD to worry about. Too bad its too late for my general.

I had to continue my campaign with him embarrassing himself and now having to live with it for the rest of his life.

Anyway, thanks for providing the fixed code. I assume this will be in the patch for those who don't fix it themselves?

BTW: What coding language is this written in? I just started college going to major into computer science so this is all very interesting to me as I look through all the code you guys have written.