Crash on base defense switch to battlescape

[NsN]

I'm using the 2.5-dev nightly build from 02 April 2013 on windows 7 64 Bit.

The crash is reproducible, when ever I enter a base defense mission, the game freezes after the switch to the battlescape. The log seems to give some error description:

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2013/04/06 15:24:34 Not enough spawn points for team 1 (actorsize: 1)
2013/04/06 15:24:34 Not enough spawn points for team 1 (actorsize: 1)
2013/04/06 15:24:34 Not enough spawn points for team 1 (actorsize: 1)
2013/04/06 15:24:34 Not enough spawn points for team 1 (actorsize: 1)
2013/04/06 15:24:34 Used inventory slots client Philip spawn: 0
2013/04/06 15:24:34 ********************
2013/04/06 15:24:34 ERROR: Game Error: Could not find character on team 1 with unique character number 8
2013/04/06 15:24:34 ********************
2013/04/06 15:24:34 Shutdown server: Server crashed.
...


I've tried defending the base with a team of 8 soldiers as well as 12, the crash occurred both times.

BTW: I tried to report this via the Bug Tracker, but got a 404 error when trying to activate my account.

[H-Hour]

I've activated your account on the bug tracker now. Sorry about that.

[NsN]

Thank you!

I've now filed a report on the tracker as well:
http://ufoai.org/bugs/ufoalieninvasion/issues/4954

[Quercus_pt]

Hello,

I played 2.3 and stable 2.4. I was waiting for the stable 2.5 to be released but in a boredom day, after reading that it would still take a few months for the stable release,  i downloaded the dev version anyway. I am having some of the problems listed in here, but the most problematic is the base attack. I was only able to defende myself once and with only 4 soldiers since it crashed with more than 4 soldiers... After that it gives me an immediate load from autosave and im stuck since even if i load from a more distant load slot, eventually i always get a base attack at the 30th of August. Im finishing the research for the Dragon interceptor, but with only the stilletos i am not able to shoot down the harvester and prevent it from attacking my base.
I see the bug is reported but see no easy fix for it.
Help anyone?

Thanks,

Quercus

[geever]

I see the bug is reported but see no easy fix for it.

As far as I know the fix isn't too complicated but needs a mapper. I gave the ticket a kick.

-geever

[ShipIt]

I updated the ticket. The seedlist shows the map is not assembled correctly.

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2013/04/24 07:54:26 not found at 'C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\1\Anwendungsdaten\UFOAI/2.5-dev/base'
2013/04/24 07:54:26 found at './base'
2013/04/24 07:54:26 CM_LoadMap: "b/intercept b/aliencont b/drop b/construction b/lab b/quarters " "0 64 0 16 64 0 48 64 0 0 48 0 16 48 0 32 48 0 48 48 0 64 48 0 0"
2013/04/24 07:54:30 Rerouted for RMA in 3.0s
2013/04/24 07:54:30 checksum for the map 'b/intercept b/aliencont b/drop b/construction b/lab b/quarters ': 3606630335
2013/04/24 07:54:30 ufo script checksum 4143097023

[Quercus_pt]

Hi again,

It seems that most of you dont have this problem. I managed to avoid base attacks for long, but now with the bombers i simply cant destroy them before landing on my bases, so... what im i to do?

If i unistall and install again the game this bug will go away? What can i try?

I finnaly have things running pretty well, good soldiers and a few bases fully operational. Even have most of the governments happy!

With the maps that have problems i normally do auto mission, but that is not possible for base attacks...what can i do?

Cheers,

[Quercus_pt]

Hi,

Is there any update on this bug?
Is there any chance to put base attacks with automissions (when a map crashes more than once i simply automission it)? With the bombers trying to attack my bases... its very hard to prevent the attack and i spend more time in the game reloading rather than playing...

Cheers,

Quercus