Unit Type and ID issues...

[aphrochine]

I'm working on adding some formations to a new nation. I'm editing a save file manually by adding the landunit {} objects via notepad. However, I'm getting errors with the IDs.

Initially, I used the type/ID info that generated when I attempted to use the editor. After finding out the editor doesnt really work so well, I tried manual editing using those same IDs. I got an error about the Type being invalid. I ignored the error and the game loaded up, no ingame issues where seen with the new units. So I build a new unit for the nation, saved the game and looked to get ID '4712' and saw the IDs where 130000 or higher. I edited the type/id's again and used some increments to the ID keeping the type at 4712. The game loaded fine, but then about 2 months in I started getting the error that 134XXX where already taken. I think the game is trying to assign these to newly produced units in the game by other countries, but I've already manually added them to my units. The errors kept repeating and the game crashed.

Anyone have any information or can point me in the right direction to how to set up these IDs without causing illegal ID and ID already taken errors during load and at some point in the game??

 

[pedal2000]

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[Gormadoc]

I'm working on adding some formations to a new nation. I'm editing a save file manually by adding the landunit {} objects via notepad. However, I'm getting errors with the IDs.

Initially, I used the type/ID info that generated when I attempted to use the editor. After finding out the editor doesnt really work so well, I tried manual editing using those same IDs. I got an error about the Type being invalid. I ignored the error and the game loaded up, no ingame issues where seen with the new units. So I build a new unit for the nation, saved the game and looked to get ID '4712' and saw the IDs where 130000 or higher. I edited the type/id's again and used some increments to the ID keeping the type at 4712. The game loaded fine, but then about 2 months in I started getting the error that 134XXX where already taken. I think the game is trying to assign these to newly produced units in the game by other countries, but I've already manually added them to my units. The errors kept repeating and the game crashed.

Anyone have any information or can point me in the right direction to how to set up these IDs without causing illegal ID and ID already taken errors during load and at some point in the game??

ID's numbered 47XX are used by the gameengine for units that are produced during a game session. So using id 4712, 4713 4714 and soforth in scenario inc files will produce error reports. Just pick another id.

If you have used the editor to allocate ID's to units in more than one inc file, with out saving and closing the editor and reopening it. It will have given the same id's to all units. In that case i recommend to start over from scratch.

Are more slow method would be to use the editor to give id's by the following method.

open the editor load scenario, pick one inc file pcik regenerate id's. Save files, close editor completely, reopen editor so it now have loaded the new id's, pick next file regenerate id's, save files, close editor, and soforth.