game crash at station at purchase ship

mrflawed · Post by **mrflawed** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 7:32 am

hello. i recently switched back to version 1.65. (had issues with text disappearing in version 1.72) and now i have run into another problem.
when i dock at stations with a tech level higher than 11ish.
the station loads fine. i can access the equipment bay fine. and when i try and access the ships menu (f3 twice) the entire game shuts down. is this an issue with any particular oxp i have installed?
i dont know how to use the debug console. so i would need some walking through to help me.

thanks!

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:16 am

It probably is OXP-related, yes. Unfortunately, the debug console and various other debugging facilities did not exist in 1.65. Neither did numerous tests to find errors in OXPs and avoid crashing.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:28 am

Could it happen if an OXP is installed that needs Oolite v > 1.65? Don't remember how sophisticated the version testing was back then. (And, perhaps even more important, if all OXPs actually support version testing.)

Ark · Post by **Ark** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:48 am

There was a relative bug in 1.65 with shipwards but the game did not crash. You just did not see the shipward screen by pressing the F3 button twice in high tech systems. If i remember correctly it has something to do with the cobranjx.oxp

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 4:13 pm

Commander McLane wrote:
Could it happen if an OXP is installed that needs Oolite v > 1.65? Don't remember how sophisticated the version testing was back then. (And, perhaps even more important, if all OXPs actually support version testing.)

Oolite 1.65 supports version requirements in requires.plist, but displays the wrong message when there’s an incompatibility.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:15 am

My question would be: What if an OXP that needs Oolite > 1.65 doesn't have a requires.plist? Could that lead to a crash?

Post by **Eric Walch** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:57 am

Commander McLane wrote:
My question would be: What if an OXP that needs Oolite > 1.65 doesn't have a requires.plist? Could that lead to a crash?

I think it could be. e.g. I don't think 1.65 already understood shipdata in ascii format. Only script in ascii was supported. And it are on average the less good written oxp's that miss a requires.plist plist. I know that on a mac a wrong shipData mend the ship was not added at all but on a window machine oolite did try to add something and often it worked.

mrflawed · Post by **mrflawed** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 1:04 am

well i fixed this issue. i deleted the cobra nj add on.. ( at least i think it was the nj addon. either way i am smooth sailing.

thanks... now if i could just get a better computer so i can play the newest version =/