Mammoths spawning, script problem ? advice needed please

[Andyrids]

As the title says, problem is I have quite a number of mods running including XRM and have no idea how to trouble shoot exactly what mod is casing this to happen... I do recall that this scenario is related to a script error ?

I could use some advice on how to trouble shoot this in game please, since this does not happen right away it is after many hours play time and the last one that spawned was in Senators Badlands right after a protect station mission started, a couple of points to note are the west gate seems to be missing from the sector also (west gate is only in the XRM game) and argon high tech traders when scanned turn into pirate freighters (even though they have no illegal goods onboard).

Thanks.

[Vayde]

Mammoth is created when your input (type) is wrong and the game cant find the right one.

MFG

Ketraar

Found in this thread http://forum.egosoft.de/viewtopic.php?p=3414349

Hope that helps.

[Andyrids]

Ah righto thanks for that link, so the mammoth is just in relation to tships and nothing else ? I guess my memory does not serve me correctly I thought they were an indicator of some sort of script error in general.

Its strange why they just sit there though if they have replaced another ship that has / had a job running.

[Vayde]

It could be that the job requires them to dock at a factory which has no huge ship docking available.

If it is a patrol job then I have no idea why they won't budge.

[Andyrids]

That made me think, I had Phanom corp installed but not activated in game... So I removed all its files and no more Mammoths !

Thanks for the insights

[joelR]

That made me think, I had Phanom corp installed but not activated in game... So I removed all its files and no more Mammoths !

Thanks for the insights

I dont see how that could be possible.

[Cycrow]

if a script/job tries to create a ship where the shiptype doesn't exist in TShips, then a mammoth would be spawned.

This could be caused by several things, either the TShips doesn't match the rest of the mod (or a script is not compatable with the mod), or theres an error in the TShips file so all ships after the error are ignored (and will appear as a mammoth)

[paulwheeler]

The XRM is fully compatible with Phanon Corp - so its not that causing your problem.

Seeing mammoths while playing the XRM usually means you have a mod installed with a non-XRM tships (MARS for example) which is blocking the XRM TShips, so the XRM jobs can't find the ship it is trying to spawn.

Please list all mods you have installed. You will need to restart your game once you fix this.

[Andyrids]

Well since I uninstalled Phanom (I never actually activated it in this game save) the Mammoth problem has vanished and I noticed the West gate has come back, though I have no idea how that could be related to Phanom itself... But the Argon high tech traders still turn into Pirate high tech traders once scanned (regardless of having illegal cargo or not) it only happens to the Argon high tech traders nothing else...

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Get the feeling I must have a corrupt file someplace quite possibly one of the XRM ones since that is the only set of files I have not re-downloaded (due to my connection being so bad where I am at the moment)

Thanks.