[http://sourceforge.net/p/ufoai/bugs/2749 Item 2749] imported from sourceforge.net tracker on 2013-01-28 19:47:16

On standard difficulty level I get

ERROR: CP_SetAlienEquipmentByInterest: no available alien equipment for mission 'cat1_interest24_3'

on the first mission (shot down scout).

date is about 2084-03-29 09:17

# debug_missionlist
mission: 'cat1_interest24_3'
...category 1. 'Recon Mission' -- stage 14. 'Leaving earth'
...mapDef: 'ufocrash'
...location: 'A Közép-keleti Szövetség'
...start (day = 760745, sec = 72918), ends (day = 760754, sec = 20666)
...pos (-23.50, 21.04)(assigned Pos) -- mission on Geoscape
...UFO: craft_ufo_scout (4/5)

# debug_interestlist
Overall interest: 28
Individual interest:
...0. None -- 0
...1. Recon Mission -- 9
...2. Terror mission -- 0
...3. Base attack -- 0
...4. Building Base or Subverting Government -- 0
...5. Supply base -- 0
...6. XVI propagation -- 0
...7. Interception -- 0
...8. Harvest -- 8
...9. Alien base discovered -- 0
...10. Rescue mission -- 0

-geever
===== Comments Ported from Sourceforge =====

====== tlh2000 (2010-12-29 18:14:35) ======

looks like the alienTeamCategory_t is created with an empty linked list for the equipment. this should not happen. we need error handling earlier here to nail it down
====== tlh2000 (2010-12-29 18:18:53) ======

a44da28f2b35d1a5514347f281130beb975fdbe8 adds some sanity check at parsing stage - looks like this is no empty list.
====== tlh2000 (2010-12-29 18:21:18) ======

so it must really be related to the interest values - i never really understood this equipment interest stuff. is it somehow possible to add a unittest for this stuff to check that every potential mission has at least one valid equipdef?
====== geever (2010-12-31 16:19:35) ======

Someone blindly replaced strncmp-s with Q_streq calls which caused this failure.

In alientype_missions.ufo the alienteam/equipment records don't fully match with equipment records of equipment_missions.ufo, they are only prefixes! only Q_strstart check can be done!

the someone missed testing his changes in game!!

-geever
====== sf-robot (2011-01-14 16:20:04) ======

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