Star Trek Armada II - Requesting Modding Help & Crashing Err

posted on September 14th, 2010, 11:53 pm

Hmm, well are you completely destroying the ship?  and are you force attacking it?   does it still crash if you just send the ship to the enemy and let them blow it up?

This is an odd bug.   :whistling:

The crash happens either way. The AI can even be building the Defiant-class and sending a ship at me and the game still crashes. The same happens when I'm playing as the Federation and send a Defiant-class vessel or even the USS Defiant to the enemies base or even to engage a ship.

The same type of problem occurs in my stock testing version with the warship.odf file so it doesn't seem to be limited to my mod  

The same thing happens with the Borg, Dominion and the Breen, that's why I think the increased Shield/Health HitPoint Values are related to this.

The crashing problems never occured with the unmodded or increased values and well the Definat and the Defiant-class were under the destroy.odf.


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When this crashing error happens, I am (well in the Map Editor) forcing the attack, but it happens even when unforced. Yes, my intentions are actually to completely destroy the ship, but if the vessel becomes disabled the game crashes, the game crashes even when the ship should explode, so both would be the answer.

posted on September 15th, 2010, 12:38 am

So does it happen for all ships or just those using the warship.odf(just to be clear)

And is this odf in the odf/ship folder or the odf/other folder

posted on September 15th, 2010, 12:50 am

So does it happen for all ships or just those using the warship.odf(just to be clear)

And is this odf in the odf/ship folder or the odf/other folder

For now the only ships with the warship.odf are the USS Defiant, the Defiant-class, the USS Incursion and the Incursion-class (I have a buildable version in my game with multiple possible craft names). Only the Defiant and the Defiant-class have been tested because the others have higher up building costs that with these crashes is prevented.

Other than that, for the Federation, no other ships are crashing the game.
For the Klingons, The Romulans, The Remans and the The Dominion, the "Destroy All" Weapon is crashing the game, none of the other races have a ship(s) using the warship.odf, its unique to the Federation.

The only other crashing problem involving ships is the one I mentioned involving the increased Shield/Health HitPoint Values for the Borg, Dominion and Breen.

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Please let me know of any more information you might need.

posted on September 15th, 2010, 9:32 pm

Knowing what everyone now knows about the error involving the USS Defiant, the Defiant-class and the warship.odf and if you have also been paying attention to Crashing Errors Thread 3, you might now also know that the Trading Station/Cargo Ship error that is affecting all races with those kinds of stations and ships, my only question I have is:

"Is some where in the game all these crashing errors some how connected to the same type of problem?"

posted on September 16th, 2010, 2:15 am

I just want to let everyone know that I have created a auto-installer for an Alpha Testing of my mod. This way if anyone wants to test out some of their own fixing ideas before suggesting them they could.

This installer already has all the necessary files required to play the game including the .EXE file so all you're going to need is your own disc to play the mod.

I would post the link from megaupload for those of  you that want to test out the mod but I believe since I havew incorporated Fleet Ops SODs and Textures for a few Dominion ships and stations that I added to my game (they aren't causing any crashes but I haven't even used them yet, except the stations of course).

Since these files are already in the auto-installer, I can't just remove them and post a download link so if you want the file, please send me a PM and I'll give you the link.

If I can post the download one time only though here on the forums, please let me know sometime soon. Thank you, for all of your continued help.

posted on September 17th, 2010, 4:58 am

How is it that the USS Defiant, the Defiant-class, the Borg, the Dominion, the Breen and now the Son'a through Ru'Afo's Command Ship linked?

The answer is simpile, they all share this same error but only the Defiant, the Defiant-class and the Incursion-class have the warship.odf file.

The Borg, Dominion and Breen have increased Shield/Health HitPoint Values but that isn't the case for Ru'Afo's Command ship. What can cause this kind of error?

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For the Bugreport and Screenshot on this latest crash, please see the Thread entitled "Son'a Crashing Error"

Here is a quick link to get to the thread:
Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations - Son'a Crashing Error

posted on September 19th, 2010, 7:34 pm

Please see Thread # 3, I posted some information there that could relate to this problem and it totally might not be teh warship.odf file causing the problem. It turns out it can easily be the Ferengi and two of their ship processes "TradeProcess" & "SalvageProcess"

I like to thank Megadroid for all the help that he has given on this problem and for his idea that it was the Ferengi, he was totally right and I'm glad that he was able to help solve the Trading Station Problems because in doing so, its highly possible he solved this one too along with the crash that I thought was due to the increased Shield/Health HP Values. Thank you again.

Please see the other thread for my one question that I posted there that involves the Ferengi Scavengers Mod at Armada2Files and if anyone thinks I should use it or not to see if that will fix the Ferengi Problems once and for-all?

Star Trek Armada II: Fleet Operations - Star Trek Armada II - Requesting Modding Help & Crashing Errors Help – Thread 3

posted on September 19th, 2010, 8:11 pm

it does seem that the problems are all interconnected...

posted on September 19th, 2010, 8:14 pm

More guesses, but try this.

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