Temporary fix for early-game CTD

[khelvan]

Some of you have experienced an early-game CTD which you cannot get past. This was caused by the removal of a script which was placing a building essential to the game's stability. As we have "naval ports" which allow the building of fleets, and the vanilla port buildings for their economic effect, and the game still requires the vanilla port building to be present when a ship is built, removing the script which placed this building causes bad things.

Whenever the Ptolemaioi build a ship in Kypros, or whoever owns the city at the time, without that port building present it results in an immediate and unavoidable CTD.

So here is the (temporary) solution, until the next version is up (we want to make this as stable as possible, and unlike in the past we've been able to pin down a number of CTD bugs, so we're working hard to get you quick fixes). First, edit the Kypros entry in descr_strat.txt - you can simply replace it with this entry:

settlement
{
	level town
	region Kypros

	year_founded 0
	population 1590
	settlement_tax 51
	plan_set default_set
	faction_creator greek_cities
	building
	{
		type core_building governors_house
	}
	building
	{
		type barracks muster_field
	}
	building
	{
		type market trader
	}
	building
	{
		type amphitheatres game_field
	}
	building
	{
		type navy_port naval_bay
	}
	building
	{
		type port_buildings port
	}
	building
	{
		type defenses wooden_pallisade
	}
	building
	{
		type temple_of_farming temple_of_farming_shrine
	}
}

This is the only change, the addition of this building:

	building
	{
		type port_buildings port
	}

Once you have done that, restart your campaign, and voila! No more CTD.

Edit: Unfortunately, there is no way to fix this in a current campaign; the script fix creates the building improperly, and thus will still cause a CTD.

In addition, we have identified at least one CTD bug present in the new animations we're using in this version, so we're working hard to fix that. Unfortunately, this may mean reverting to the old animations for now, until the problem can be fixed, or until the 1.5 version is ready. Incidentally, a fan (nikolai1962) has been making great progress in digging through our files in preparation for porting to 1.5, so there is light at the end of the tunnel now, where there was none in the past.

Edit2:

THIS IS THY QUEST - SAVE THYSELF FROM CERTAIN CTD DOOM

The only way to avoid certain crash to desktop doom for your existing campaign is to sail to Kypros and take it before the AI builds a fleet there. Then you can build a port, and all will be well.

Your future is in your own hands. Good luck and godspeed.