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Bad xml file for savegames

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geever:
I've opened your savegame (with cli tools) and it was broken on the very same message (Alien activity was detected), the very same way. More over: you are playing on German language just like the last reporter did. So I've opened the language file with PoEdit, looked up the string aaand found something like:


--- Code: ---msgid "Alien activity has been detected in %s."
msgstr "Alien Aktivitäten wurden gemeldet in: '%s'."

msgid "Alien activity has been detected."
msgstr "Außerirdische Aktivitäten wurden gemeldet in: '%s'."

--- End code ---

The second pair is the problem. The original text does not need a %s template but the translation has one, which on saving get replaced by some memory-garbage which corrupts the XML.

I can't imagine that it could happen, especially with so many German ppl in the team. :)
I fixed the po file in the branch for next releases. For a workaround: please play on English.

-geever

Pillat:
Ok.. uhm.. can you correct the savegame and give it back to me? :D Don't want to start from new again

DarkRain:

--- Quote from: Pillat on January 20, 2015, 07:01:22 pm ---Hmm no error.. I just can't start a new campaign.. there's just an empty worldmap, and I can't do anything^^

--- End quote ---
Odd I thought the game would throw an error and exit... anyway you can find your ufoconsole.log which should contain any errors, that might have been generated that weren't bad enough for the game to exit (or crash).


--- Quote ---Well what do I have to add to play the campaign with the new items?

--- End quote ---
You'll need to add a tech that 'provides' the item (one for each item) (see research.ufo) and if you want it to be available from the start you might need to add that techs to the appropriate list in researched_list.ufo

geever:

--- Quote from: DarkRain on January 21, 2015, 06:58:06 am ---Odd I thought the game would throw an error and exit...

--- End quote ---

Well, honestly, I did not test it. I just assumed that it caused the issue. Let's hope it is enough. :D

-geever

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