Star Trek Armada II - Requesting Modding Help &amp; Crashing Err

posted on September 2nd, 2010, 1:55 am

Myles wrote:my apologies for going off topic

happens a lot round here.

Apology accepted. I believe we all do that at times anyways, its just hard to get back on topic after going off it alot.

posted on September 4th, 2010, 5:11 am

Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix these Trading Station and Cargo Ship errors for all the racs that have to use Trading Stations and the Cargo Ships? This error is making it hard to play the Federation Campagin especially with the fact that the error is causing the misson to crash on loading thus preventing me from even getting to the rest of the Federation's Campaign or to even open up the Klingon Campaign. Its not fun to get into the Campaign missions by going through the Map Editor after all.

I've tried restoring the Back ups of the Trading Stations and Cargo ships from an Stock Install of the game and that too still causes a crash. I'm thinking that there is an error in a file that allows for the Tradings To begin because that icon/button is what was missing in both the Trading Stations and the Cargo ships when looking at them in the Map Editor. Does anyone know what files will have to be edited to fix this or to work around it?

posted on September 14th, 2010, 9:57 pm

Here are some screenshots and bugreports for the Trading Station and Cargo Ship Crashing Error.

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bugreport (5) Trading Station Error.txt: (21.95 KiB) Downloaded 247 times

posted on September 14th, 2010, 10:19 pm

Last edited by jetnova16 on September 14th, 2010, 10:21 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Here is one of the two extra files, the other will be posted after i is finished being uploaded to MegaUpload, it is the file housing the mod that might be the culprit for the Trading Station and Cargo ship error. As I said, "It might be responsible."

EDIT/ADDITION:

Here is the file that I needed to upload to MegaUpload.

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Station ODF File.zip: (4.04 KiB) Downloaded 212 times

posted on September 14th, 2010, 10:34 pm

This one also looks Race related - check the Ferengi Cargo ships. The error occurs inside the TraderProcess, which is what the Ferengi Cargo ships use. Also the error only appearing after 1 minute fits with this - the Ferengi cargo ships spawn at about this time and immediately execute the code indicated in the crash dump.

posted on September 14th, 2010, 11:17 pm

Megadroid wrote:This one also looks Race related - check the Ferengi Cargo ships. The error occurs inside the TraderProcess, which is what the Ferengi Cargo ships use. Also the error only appearing after 1 minute fits with this - the Ferengi cargo ships spawn at about this time and immediately execute the code indicated in the crash dump.

Is there any codes that I should put into the Trading Stations or Cargo Ships to fix this or does something need to be removed from the Ferengi Cargo Ships?

Is there a file called TraderProcess that I have to locate some place in the game?

posted on September 14th, 2010, 11:21 pm

jetnova16 wrote:Is there any codes that I should put into the Trading Stations or Cargo Ships to fix this or does something need to be removed from the Ferengi Cargo Ships?

I'm not really the best ODF guy, but it would be something to do with the race="ferengi" or the actual race definition. Ferengi Cargo Ships are zfercarg I think. Ferengi trading ships work in stock, so something must have happened when the new races were added to cause the error.

jetnova16 wrote:Is there a file called TraderProcess that I have to locate some place in the game?

No, I was just looking at the bug report for that info.

posted on September 14th, 2010, 11:30 pm

Megadroid wrote:I'm not really the best ODF guy, but it would be something to do with the race="ferengi" or the actual race definition. Ferengi Cargo Ships are zfercarg I think. Ferengi trading ships work in stock, so something must have happened when the new races were added to cause the error.

No, I was just looking at the bug report for that info.

Ok, I'll look into that further.

Also, here are teh Ferengi/odf file and the Ferengi Cargo Ship odf, and a few other Ferengi Ship and station ODF files.

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posted on September 14th, 2010, 11:32 pm

Also, if you are interested the only different I could find between the two Trading Station ODFs was that the "possibly modded" version had this at the end:

Code: Select all: //************************************************************ // how often should we check to see if we have a valid resource? checkValidResourceInterval = 10.0f

posted on September 14th, 2010, 11:44 pm

Megadroid wrote:Also, if you are interested the only different I could find between the two Trading Station ODFs was that the "possibly modded" version had this at the end:

Code: Select all
//************************************************************ // how often should we check to see if we have a valid resource? checkValidResourceInterval = 10.0f

What file was that exactly in? Was it a race specific Trading Station, the station.odf file, or the TradingStation.odf file?

posted on September 14th, 2010, 11:55 pm

station.odf, from the upload Station ODF File.zip

posted on September 15th, 2010, 12:06 am

Megadroid wrote:station.odf, from the upload Station ODF File.zip

That's what I thought, I just had to be sure.
The station.odf file isn't causing other stations to crash (starbases, shipyards, research stations, planets) but could it be the cause of the Trading Stations or are you almost sure that it has something to do with the Ferengi race, and codes that go with them? Could the other files that I included in the attachments involving trading be involved (they weren't ever modded though)?

posted on September 15th, 2010, 12:13 am

Well, it crashes when it tries to access the race of the ship. I can't be sure of whether this is to do with the Race itself, the Ship ODFs or even something else.

You could try adding some Ferengi ships to see if they crash the game just by being there.