Mission exits suddently when picking up objects from the ground

[wheel83]

When I try picking up guns and stuff from the ground, like off a fallen soldier, sometimes the mission suddenly exits and my dropship and soldiers are just sitting there above the mission marker. It seems to happen randomly, I could pick up a gun and a unit of ammo then go for another unit of ammo and , wtf, mission ends and just goes back to the map with no explanation whatsoever..
Has anyone come across this before? And is there a fix someone could direct me to?
thanks.

[Mattn]

please read the note about "how to report bugs"

[wheel83]

I am using Windows XP Professional and the Win32 Release version 2.3.1 (525 MB).
I have looked for the console log everywhere but to no avail I'm afraid. I've followed all instructions given in the wiki, but it seems that I don't even have an Application Data folder in which the wiki says to look for the console log.
I've used "search" on my computer for "Ufo ai console log", and "Application Data" and found nothing..

I am pretty puzzled by this..
any ideas?

Also, it seems i've come across another bug. I was trying to buy something at one of my bases and it said my storage was full. So I looked into it and found that I had like 10,000 alien breathing apparatus's in there... not a particularly 'bad' bug, cause i sold em all for about half a million credits., but everytime I try to carry on to the next day I get another 5000 or so of these alien breathing apparatus's clogging up my storage.
It also seems like my production lines are on steroids, because I've been on Nov 1st for something like 5 turns now and have finished a crap load of production. Everytime I press the turn button another production is done that I just started the last turn.

It all seemed to start happening right after I finished disasembling my first UFO.

I don't really wanna continue playing the game like this.. It's like I'm playing with a trainer program or something, but I have never downloaded such a thing. It just started happening all on its own.

Like I said, I have no idea where to find the Console log on my computer,.. I looked where it's supposed to be, but I don't even have an "Application Data" folder apparently..

Please help me if you can so I can get back to saving the planet and all that good stuff..
let me know if i can give you any other info that will help.

[geever]

I've used "search" on my computer for "Ufo ai console log", and "Application Data" and found nothing..

You could try searching "ufoconsole.log" or "slotX.savx" where X is the ordinal number of the save slot U used starting from 0.
It is an interesting bug. If you find the directory with these files, please open a ticket on our Bug Tracker with ufoconsole.log and your savegame attached.

-geever

[Kildor]

what`s name of your user, and where is windows dir placed?

[geever]

Ahh, Probably you didn't enable hidden directories to show up. Appdata is hidden AFAIK.

-geever

[wheel83]

how do I un-hide the folder?

[wheel83]

ok i un-hid the folder, found the log, can't post it all, it says i've exceeded the character limit, so here's a chunk i found that says the word "error' in it numerous times. There's alot more "error"s after this chunk.
I found the save games too, how do I send those?

2011/03/03 18:07:41 File 'slot0' successfully loaded from compressed xml savegame.
2011/03/03 18:07:41 music change to van_geoscape (from van_theme)
2011/03/03 18:07:41 music change to karlmacklin_geoscape (from van_geoscape)
2011/03/03 18:07:57 ********************
2011/03/03 18:07:57 ERROR: AL_ChangeAliveAlienNumber: Can't add/remove 1 live aliens, (capacity: 10/10, Alien Containment Status: 1)

2011/03/03 18:07:57 ********************
2011/03/03 18:07:57 music change to karlmacklin_geoscape (from karlmacklin_geoscape)
2011/03/03 18:07:57 ********************
2011/03/03 18:07:57 ERROR: AL_ChangeAliveAlienNumber: Can't add/remove 1 live aliens, (capacity: 10/10, Alien Containment Status: 1)

2011/03/03 18:07:57 ********************
2011/03/03 18:07:57 music change to karlmacklin_geoscape (from karlmacklin_geoscape)
2011/03/03 18:07:57 ********************
2011/03/03 18:07:57 ERROR: AL_ChangeAliveAlienNumber: Can't add/remove 1 live aliens, (capacity: 10/10, Alien Containment Status: 1)

2011/03/03 18:07:57 ********************
2011/03/03 18:07:57 music change to van_geoscape (from karlmacklin_geoscape)
2011/03/03 18:07:57 ********************
2011/03/03 18:07:57 ERROR: AL_ChangeAliveAlienNumber: Can't add/remove 1 live aliens, (capacity: 10/10, Alien Containment Status: 1)

2011/03/03 18:07:57 ********************
2011/03/03 18:07:57 music change to karlmacklin_geoscape (from van_geoscape)
2011/03/03 18:07:57 ********************
2011/03/03 18:07:57 ERROR: AL_ChangeAliveAlienNumber: Can't add/remove 1 live aliens, (capacity: 10/10, Alien Containment Status: 1)

2011/03/03 18:07:57 ********************
2011/03/03 18:07:57 music change to karlmacklin_geoscape (from karlmacklin_geoscape)
2011/03/03 18:07:57 ********************
2011/03/03 18:07:57 ERROR: AL_ChangeAliveAlienNumber: Can't add/remove 1 live aliens, (capacity: 10/10, Alien Containment Status: 1)

2011/03/03 18:07:57 ********************
2011/03/03 18:07:57 music change to van_geoscape (from karlmacklin_geoscape)
2011/03/03 18:07:57 ********************
2011/03/03 18:07:57 ERROR: AL_ChangeAliveAlienNumber: Can't add/remove 1 live aliens, (capacity: 10/10, Alien Containment Status: 1)

[wheel83]

i was playing with the music turned down to off when this happened. Don't know if that helps..? I was listening to a cd while playing, didn't know that it was an enhanced cd and when i went to desktop to switch discs I found a little message popped up on my computer that said i was low on virtual memory. With no idea what that means I just kept playing.. I'm not really savvy with computers. Anyways, thought I'd mention that just in case.

[wheel83]

oh and i tried to submit a bug tracker thing but every time i hit "add new" my browser just brings me to a white page and does nothing...i think i was born under a bad moon
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[wheel83]

there, that's the rest of the log, excluding the first part before it started saying error.

...im sorry im such a fool when it comes to computers..

[wheel83]

uh.. so do you think the problem is that i can't ChangeAliveAlienNumber: Can't add/remove 1 live aliens, (capacity: 10/10, Alien Containment Status: 1)??

[wheel83]

alright.... another update...

So I decided to try killing all the aliens in containment that I already researched.. and every nation went from exuberant to furious to giving up...and all in one turn ......

I thought the world wanted me to kill aliens?... Is this like the 'humane society for aliens' protesting part of the game or something??...I'm so confused...

and I also went from Nov 1st to April 15th in one turn..

all because I killed 10 aliens in containment..

oh well, at least I'm not accumulating thousands of mysterious breathing apparatus's now..

and the nations are happy again after another turn.. except the Asian republic..they're still pissed,.. but I'm slowly winning them back by selling them ufos.. they say money can't buy you love, but apparently UFOs can buy you happiness. The Asians love those things!

[wheel83]

So the game seems to be running normally again after killing the aliens in containment. Production lines are back to normal speed, and I havn't been getting abnormal amounts of breathing apparatus's.. seems that I fixed the bug myself.
But I still don't trust this game after that... that was quite strange. I'll keep you updated if anything else ridiculous starts to happen.

My original bug about the game crashing back to geoscape after trying to pick up objects off of dead bodies still stands.
If it happens again I will save the log and post it here.

[wheel83]

I've been playing for about an hour now and the game is all completely back to normal except for an unusual flurry of ufo activity right after I killed the aliens and all that stuff. I had about 10-11 ufo mission markers on my map all at once and they just kept coming as fast as I could get to them. I don't know if that is part of the bug or if that is normal for the game but it's never happened like that so far. After about 3 game days of dealing with that bullshit they backed off and the game seems to be back to normal.