Oolite Bulletins

hi. i have been playing oolite for months now and when i did the ionics mission .galaxy2.i docked and to did not notice all my credits had gone .saved the game then when i noticed all my credits had dissapered i went into oolite saves and edited my credits back.NOW when i load my commander its not there but it is still in oolite saves.please help. i have tryed everything but still no commander.there must be another part in oolite saves that your credits match. I WANT MY COMMANDER BACK PLEASE SOMEONE HELP. THANKS .DAZER.

Welcome to the boards! (The friendliest this side of Riedquat, apparently)

You probably edited your save game with window's notepad.
As I said a few million times already, notepad is evil:

It adds hidden characters to a file, and when saved it also adds a .txt extension to the file - which in most systems is actually hidden too from the user.

How to undo the damage: remove all the hidden characters, which prevent Oolite from reading the save game properly, and make sure the save game is called commanderName.save-game as opposed to commanderName.save-game.txt

To remove the hidden characters you should use a proper text editor, like the free notepad++ (available from sourceforge, google for it)

If memory serves me well, you need to change every single hidden extra return character at the end of each line. Change the view options inside notepad++ so you can see the hidden characters...

Hope this helps.

Kaks wrote:

If memory serves me well, you need to change every single hidden extra return character at the end of each line. Change the view options inside notepad++ so you can see the hidden characters...

Please do not perform the conversion manually. Instead, use the built-in menu function from Notepad++

Format -> Convert to Unix
or
Format -> Convert to Mac

The Unix format is what the save game starts out as using, so convet it back to the unix format and you will be set.

thanks everyone for your help i got me commander back. YIPPE

Welcome to the boards! (The friendliest this side of Riedquat, apparently)

This begs the question, which side of Riedquat are we on?
It either covers a lot of territory or not so much...



Though I would concur that it is a very friendly board.

Yes, which half of the universe do we want to be in?

Decisions, decisions!

The fashionable half, of course!

Diziet Sma wrote:

The fashionable half, of course!

Not the unfashionable end of the Western spiral arm, that's for sure...