CTD with saved games

[Monkwarrior]

It might be caused by cities revolting. It's been known that if a city revolts and there is no unit to recruit from the building list so the slave faction would take units from the mercenary pool and could cause CTD. Message Dol Guldur for more info since he had more research in this.

I'm not sure if the rebels work in that way.

I've played as the rebels some times to be sure there were no problems, and they are able to recruit all the units labelled with "owner slave" in export_descr_units, even in case they are not marked as { slave, } in the recruitment line of export_descr_buildings.

In fact, the old barracks are kept in game only for rebels, but they build the barracks of the corresponding culture of the region. I mean, the gallic rebels build gallic barracks, and the numidian rebels build african barracks, although the buildings cannot be built by the slave faction.

I had several CTD issues due to rebels, but they were originated by mismatch between the default faction in descr_regions and the culture of the rebels assigned to that region in descr_rebel_factions, and/or the sub_faction assigned to that region in descr_strat.

Cheers.

[nikolai1962]

Factions with saved game issues: dacia (padane gauls), romans_scipii (italic peoples) and carthage (idem).

Factions without saved game issues: gauls (idem), romans_julii (romans) and greek_cities (greek colonies).

sounds like you may have found the cause but thought i'd mention it looks like the factions without problems are the same factions as they were in vanilla while the ones with problems have changed. possibly related to errors in one or more of the text entries for each faction. the "you are ambushed by an army of x" type entries in...umm... forgotten where, expanded.txt or something.

edit: just realised carthage is the same faction as vanilla and is in the "has problems" list.