Quote Originally Posted by alpaca
What I meant with vanilla is to uninstall the game, wipe the folder, reinstall and then change nothing and play a campaign (don't forget to make a backup of any changed files beforehand though). It could be there's some changes you made that you don't remember or some unforeseen stuff happening.

If you feel like it's too much bother, that's ok

I know what you meant and the message is taken wholeheartedly, no spite intended. It was the only file that I changed. Right now I have my curiosity piqued as to what the limits are before the sd files "crash". It's just going to take a long campaign with recruitment slots reduced, no changing construction times , no changing money. I want to find out once and for all and with reproducable evidence of what the limits are. If I can do this for the community then our modders can make some excellent crash-proof mods. I have used the tools you have written for M2TW including .sd convertor and strings_bin convertor. By my being able to look inside these files I have been able get some of my information. Now I want to know "why" and I consider research part of modding.