Races File Errors - Need Help!!

[Greybeard]

HELP!!

For some time, I have been getting an error message when logging into several of my PBW games. The message reads:

AI Settings Errors: F:\space empires iv gold 1.78 \pictures\races\klingon_ai_settings.txt
>Could not find field “ships don’t move through minefields” in record “Settings”
>Could not find field “xxxxx” in record “settings”
>Could not….

There are 8 or 9 of these “Could not” lines

This was an annoyance, but after logging into the games, they played correctly. I would get 7 of these when logging into Newbie Galactic Combat II and one when logging into Capitals. Not sure about the other games I’m in…

Now, in the past few days, I’m getting another error that may be related?
When in the Empire screen, and scrolling to the right to reveal additional empires, I started getting the following error message:

Cannot open file f:\space empires iv gold 1.78\pictures\races\data\data_race_portrait.bmp

When this occurred, all of the buttons and shortcut keys stopped working. I would have to quit the game and start over.

Now, tonight, when starting a new game to create an empire for Furball 4, I got the same “cannot open file…” error message in the “empires\add new” screen.

I recall trying to move some of the Klingon empire files around several months ago because they didn’t seem to go in the correct place when unzipped. Last night, I unzipped the Klingon files again to see if that would stop the problem. This was in a folder in Pictures\Races\Klingon. There are 4 subfolders named Data, Dsgnname, Empires, Pictures. The pictures subfolder has additional folders named Races\Pictures.

I think this might be the problem, but I can’t seem to correct it.

Any suggestions??

Thanks…Greybeard

[DavidG]

Originally posted by Greybeard:
HELP!!

Cannot open file f:\space empires iv gold 1.78\pictures\races\data\data_race_portrait.bmp

Any suggestions??

Thanks…Greybeard

This suggest that you have a folder under the races directory called "data" which means you have a race called "data" but it is more likely a mods data folder that has been extracted to the wrong place.

[DavidG]

Originally posted by Greybeard:
HELP!!

For some time, I have been getting an error message when logging into several of my PBW games. The message reads:

AI Settings Errors: F:\space empires iv gold 1.78 \pictures\races\klingon_ai_settings.txt

Any suggestions??

Thanks…Greybeard

This sounds like some files in the wrong place too. Under the \pictures\races folder all you should have is more folders of the race names. It looks like you have klingon_ai_settings.txt under this folder.

Any files in the pictures\races folder and any folders that are not a Races folder should be deleted.

[ January 18, 2003, 14:41: Message edited by: DavidG ]

[Greybeard]

DavidG: Thanks for the suggestions. I removed the data folder and modified the Klingon ai_settings file by copying in the lines that were missing from another race.

Now, everything seems to be working OK.

Greybeard

[capnq]

>Could not find field “ships don’t move through minefields” in record “Settings”

That set of errors means you've got a set of AI files that were made before Gold.

Instructions for converting AIs are linked in my sig.

[Ruatha]

Hmm, did you download pictures.zip when we started NGC2? I thought I had fixed the AI files, might have missed some though.
Will send out a question to all players regarding this in next newsflash from the game, if it's a common problem I'll resend all fixed AI files to everyone.

(Hosting Newbie Galactic Combat 2)

[Greybeard]

Yes, I downloaded the files from the Newbie Galactic Combat 2 site. I don't know if the Klingon file I had in the races file was from this download or from another, since I cleaned everything up yesterday.

However, now that I know where things belong and how to correct the problem, it won't be a problem again.

Thanks...Greybeard