Help with Dominions error

[llamabeast]

I am trying to start up the megagame. It is late, and I am gradually descending into insanity. Every time I try, I get this error:

N�got gick fel!
fg: bad u
N�got gick fel!
fg: bad u
Aborted

Does anyone know what this means?

Many thanks! Please save me!

[Ballbarian]

Could the "bad u" be the old bad unit number error?
Have you tried to start the game without mods just to see if it might be a mod typo causing you grief?

Just some ideas. I don't believe that I have ever seen an error in dom quite like those.

[llamabeast]

Thanks for the response Ballbarian.

I just tried with no mods, but had the same problem.

Hmm, I'm actually thinking now something fundamental has gone wrong with my Dominions. I can't even create a 2-player network game on Silent Seas now with no mods. Aaaargh!

[llamabeast]

Right. Now I cannot create _any game_. Even single player with no mods on silent seas. I get:

Nagot gick fel!
wrong gnumber
Nagot gick fel!
wrong gnumber
Aborted

I cry.

This is quite impressive. It seems fate knew I was within a couple of minutes of finally starting the game, and struck down my copy of Dominions.

[llamabeast]

Never mind, luckily I have a whole separate Dom3 install on my Windows partition. I shall reboot into that...

More ftaghn reports soon, I suspect.

[NTJedi]

Try removing all your mods from the MOD folder.

I could not use the unit_view map because it was partially still using a the SC_Stadium MOD even tho it wasn't listed.

Once I moved all files from the MOD folder it started working correctly.

[llamabeast]

Thanks NTJedi. I just tried that, but no luck.

I have just remembered that an additional patch came out for linux to fix some network bug. So I came right back into linux to try that out. When starting a multiplayer game I start it as a network game you see, with all the pretenders already present. Best way to do it.

Doesn't explain why I can't even start single player games now though. Very odd.

[Ballbarian]

I am not familiar with the linux environment, but were this a windows install of dominions, I would rename the folder and reinstall followed by the most recent patch. Maybe that would get you back on track?

[chrispedersen]

I get similar errors when I cannot connect to the server.
The 65535 number looks like the maximum for a byte.

Did you turn on -ddddd? Silly I know to ask you ... but it does say where/what the errors are oft.

Did you open the port on the firewall? did you choose a valid port?

[llamabeast]

Thanks very much for all the thoughts guys, I will definitely try all those things tonight.

The � was just the way the accented "a" in Nagot gick fel came out on the forum. I didn't notice it had done that.

And Lazy! Good to see you again!