[MOD] Faction War/Economy Enhancer v5.63

[Shuulo]

Both these issues - duplicate stations and not able to accept missions, are tied to vanilla bug on how it reads mods if the DLC is installed, correct me Mysterial if im wrong). This is not something fixable without egosoft (but Mysterial provided possible workaround in this thread). Email to egosoft was sent, so let us just hope that this will be fixed soon.

[Meme Turtle]

Both these issues - duplicate stations and not able to accept missions, are tied to vanilla bug on how it reads mods if the DLC is installed, correct me Mysterial if im wrong). This is not something fixable without egosoft (but Mysterial provided possible workaround in this thread). Email to egosoft was sent, so let us just hope that this will be fixed soon.

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I have a galaxy to burn.

[Thurgret]

have you tried adding the mod After you have started a new game instead?

I tried this, but after re-enabling the catchup module, the duplication returned.

[Shuulo]

have you tried adding the mod After you have started a new game instead?

I tried this, but after re-enabling the catchup module, the duplication returned.

Just dont use catchup then for now, its not the most critical component of FE anyway

[Anthule]

Apologies if it’s a stupid question, but is it possible to disable a mod and still load an existing save? I get an error message saying the the save can’t be loaded without the mod. I haven’t been able to find anything on it - Maybe it’s just not possible because of the scripts? Would be nice to salvage my existing save if possible though.

[JakubCW]

have you tried adding the mod After you have started a new game instead?

I tried this, but after re-enabling the catchup module, the duplication returned.

Just dont use catchup then for now, its not the most critical component of FE anyway

Still finding it rather odd how one game suffers and another doesn't..

[Mysterial]

Apologies if it’s a stupid question, but is it possible to disable a mod and still load an existing save? I get an error message saying the the save can’t be loaded without the mod. I haven’t been able to find anything on it - Maybe it’s just not possible because of the scripts? Would be nice to salvage my existing save if possible though.

It depends on the mod. Normally the catchup module doesn't have that flag set, but I turned it on to try to avoid the duplicate station issue... unfortunately that simply caused it for a different set of people due to the nature of the bug. Technically, you can edit your save file to remove the dependency, but I am not a good person to ask about that.

[steve_v]

@Mysterial, you have my eternal gratitude, you saved me a world of frustration and your workarounds are right on the money.

[AkiraR]

OK so after experiencing the unable to accept any missions bug (and the duplicating stations) I went through all my mods looking for save="true" or save="1" entries, I found a total of three plus the DLC, they were FE Catchup, VRO, and xR Shippack. I changed all of them including the DLC to "false" and have spent an hour zipping about the split systems saving and loading and saving again and loading, so far haven't seen any issues. What does this entry actually do? Will it have any affect on mod functionality?

[Sirilius]

OK so after experiencing the unable to accept any missions bug (and the duplicating stations) I went through all my mods looking for save="true" or save="1" entries, I found a total of three plus the DLC, they were FE Catchup, VRO, and xR Shippack. I changed all of them including the DLC to "false" and have spent an hour zipping about the split systems saving and loading and saving again and loading, so far haven't seen any issues. What does this entry actually do? Will it have any affect on mod functionality?

It checks if the mod is installed for you to be able to load the save. If you uninstalled VRO and XR ship pack then tried to load the save that depends on it... well I dunno what that’ll lead to.

It’s been mentioned before that save=true solves the issue with the catch-up mode for some and for others it did not.

[-=Hed_GE_hoG=-]

So wait for fix and start new game? again XD

[Rad]

And we have gone to 3.1 version just to make it easy

[Mr.Freud]

since 3.1 I see new line in log file. it says something about tracking catchup module if its installed so I think DEVs are on the case already

[Bubonosaure]

Currently, two FRF Monitors have been chilling forever at the same spot in Family TKR without any fleet around them, not patrolling nor doing anything, while a Rattlesnake hangs out by another station as a I and a K rampage through stations in Family TKR. I don't feel like factions are very reactive when their stations are being attacked. Other factions seems to be doing better for now but they're stronger. I feel like them losing a station should trigger a strong global answer from the faction. On the bright side, factions, with some a bit of help, have been decent at keeping their shipyards rolling.
I should add that many defence stations don't seem to be entirely equipped in turrets, but Egosoft never really bothered with this problem so that might be entirely unrelated.

Anyways, the mod seems to be doing fine without catchup modules in 3.1. I do have two VRO mods with save=1 though. I have to check how to activate the log to be a little more helpful I suppose.

[arhmed6]

i have found that this is indeed caused by the catchup module (AFTER SAVE IS LOADED), what i did is after i loaded a savegame, stations got duped.

what i did to fix it
i disabled the catchup module (had to go to Documents/egosoft/x4/saves and extract the savefile with 7-zip and remove the line saying the catchup module was active, and the stations did not duped upon the loading of the savefile.

Pretty much you can safe your gamesaves after atleast the last dupe

(edit i do not know if this will have any damages to the save in other erias however so do this at your own risk.

[Buzz2005]

you can just go ingame menu to extension and disable the mod, dont need to edit anything

[arhmed6]

well acually i did that in extensions, but it was locked in the savefile as if i could not load the savegame with the extension activated

[Buzz2005]

sorry didn't realize that FE brakes saves, it didn't before.

[Mysterial]

I set it for the catchup module in an attempt to fix the duplicate stations problem, but it turns out that just makes even more people get it.

[Sirilius]

My understanding of the issue is that having an odd number of config files with save=“true” or save=1 will break the game. The issue is with the split DLC causing it to boot up and populate the split sectors each time you save-reload.

So DLC + VRO = safe (this would have been fine with the previous version of catchup not being save game dependent)
DLC + VRO + catchup (updated) = not safe

I’m assuming it’s fine with just the Split DLC