Hardcoded limits

**wilddog** · 02-25-2007, 23:36

LC
Thanks. I tried to get to 199 so many times.. and using different colours for that 199th region. I'll try and recheck my map in the week using your colour codes.

**wilddog** · 02-26-2007, 16:40

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Just tried it again and had no problems getting to 199 provinces (using just one sea colour).

Now I've no idea what I did differently but I tried several times before and kept crashing with straight CTD. Yesterday I found I had a duplicate province name in the mercenaries.txt file and I tried adding it in again in case it caused a problem but just can't repeat the problem.

**Lord Condormanius** · 02-26-2007, 16:48

Is that what does it? only one sea color? I am relatively new to modding, so I really don't know. The map was originally an early version of Spurius' BigMap. If there is a difference in the sea, he changed it before I ever saw the map. I added 50+ regions to it and just stopped at 199 because I heard it was the limit. I never bothered to try 200. I'm racking my brain trying to think what might have caused a CTD like that...

**wilddog** · 02-26-2007, 18:16

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Its actually quite strange. I had the CTD (no error messages) several times when trying to add the extra province. Then yesterday I was moving provinces around and renaming and found I had the duplicate in the mercenaries.txt file. Today I thought I'd just try adding a new province in again and it worked first time. I then tried to add in some duplicated provinces into the mercenaries and couldn't get a CTD. I then thought it may be tied to features somehow as I think I had always tested with the land bridges in and didn't have any now. I added a land bridge and still couldn't get a CTD.

I then tried changing a sea colour for a lake to the one used in vanilla for lakes - and got an unexplained error but no direct CTD - so you couldn't now have 2 sea colours.

I then thought I'd try adding one more region and I got the straight CTD again. Which resolved itself once I took out a different region.

I really don't know what I did to not be able to add in the 199th originally. I'm sure I used different colours for different attempts. I also recall I accidentally started with a different sea colour to the main sea one in vanilla so maybe that had something to do with it.

My map is a British isles map so its completely new.

**Lord Condormanius** · 02-26-2007, 21:19

That sounds like a pretty neat map. I know absolutely nothing about making maps (unfortunately). I think that (recently) I have become pretty competent at just about everything else. Best of luck with you mod, it sounds pretty neat.