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Can't find Ronald Blacklock (Tales of a Sea Hawk - Deliver a Prisoner to the Governor)

Since I have been reporting bugs here, I kind got OCD and I just have to report this typo XD

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And yes it will help a lot for sure to not worry about hoisting he flag.
 
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Nooooooooo! Just after I finished a huge battle and lost a 2nd rate ship, but I got a huge ship of the line along with a 3rd rate one, and I got a bug where when I go in the menu, the buttons on the top will just not switch screens. It is just stuck in the character information screen and just won't change :(

I want to board and sail that huge shiiip!
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Try pressing F2 again, then clicking one of the Tabs. Or click a DIFFERENT tab from the one you want to click, then try the one you want afterwards.
I've seen it before where in a certain menu, one of the tabs just won't work. Very strange and I was unable to find any reason for it.
 
Those typos have been there forever.

I hate it when that happens with the menu buttons stop working. For me it always happens early in a game so I just restart. Perhaps if you go back to an earlier save the buttons will start working again. Will deleting the options file work?
 
There are a LOT of typos to go around. It'd be great if someone could go through it all and fix everything that doesn't look right.
Eventually I'll probably end up doing it myself once everything else is fixed and I finally get round to playing through all the storylines.
Still.... help on that would be most welcome. It's not hard either. :no

Also, sometimes if NONE of the menu buttons work anymore at all, that is due to an interface error. I get those a lot while modding, but they shouldn't occur during regular gameplay.
Anyway, if it does happen, usually you can use F1 or F2 to re-open an interface and then it works again.
Also, if that is the case, I want to see the error.log file so we can figure out why it happens and prevent it in the future!
 
For better or worse I tried everything I could to make it work, so going in and out menus or alike sadly do not work and no button works. With quicksave I always have previous saves since I delete the extra quicksaves only when I finish playing. Actually the previous save is about half hour before the bug occurred, but it happened after I found that huge ship of the line. Arrrrrrrgh! Storyline is getting on a pause. I am going to get some more ships, man them and then chase after french convoys! At any rate, if this will happen again, I will make sure to keep the error log and send it for sure.
 
Well I got myself a bug but this time it is a different one. I hope the error log will help with this one. I just can't control the ship anymore. I can fast travel and sail around in the map and I can fire cannons if the enemy ship gets in the line of fire, but I can't turn it or raise and lower sails.

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RUNTIME ERROR - file: sea_ai\AIShip.c; line: 88
invalid index 8 [size:3]
RUNTIME ERROR - file: sea_ai\AIShip.c; line: 88
function 'CreateFlagEnvironment' stack error
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RUNTIME ERROR - file: officers.c; line: 293
missed attribute: officertype
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RUNTIME ERROR - file: seadogs.c; line: 736
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RUNTIME ERROR - file: interface\transfer_crew.c; line: 235
Using reference variable without initializing
RUNTIME ERROR - file: interface\transfer_crew.c; line: 235
Using reference variable without initializing
RUNTIME ERROR - file: interface\transfer_crew.c; line: 235
Using reference variable without initializing
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It is just my luck XD I have the save where it happens. I got myself another ship of the line, and as soon as I try to swap ships with it, controls die. After that , even if I swap ships again, the controls stay dead.
 
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Those save errors have been there since the original game, but don't seem to do any harm.
Never heard of a "no controls" problem before. What game version are you running now?
The latest version does require you to start a new game, but has some stuff fixed that might somehow be related.

If you have a bugged savegame, can you post it? Perhaps I can figure out what's going on.
 
I bet the controls are not gone, but instead they are arranged in a completely different way. This used to be very common but just sorta went away. I think deleting the options folder fixes it.
 
That's always a good idea when weird stuff happens that doesn't stop. :yes
 
Ok I sent you the save file. Seems at the current point it does not matter which ship I swap with. As soon as I do, wasd stops working. Going to the shipyard, selling the ship and then buying it to replace my current ship does work though. When I delete the options file the save files lose their icons and when I try to load one it gives me a blackscreen.
 
Deleting the options file should just cause the game to reset all settings to default. No idea why that should influence the savegame screenshots though.
That's weird. On that black screen, can you post the log files, please?
 
These are my logs after I try to load the corrupt save game and it gives me a black screen:

Compile Log

Gauging: StartGauging
Gauging: starting init
Gauging: interface
Gauging: Storylines
Gauging: Profiles
Gauging: starting init
==> BuildSettings: Sets to default
==> BuildSettings: New settings applied
Gauging: load build settings
Gauging: periods
InitNations: NATIONS_QUANTITY=6, bGuest1NationExists=0, bGuest2NationExists=0
Gauging: nations
Gauging: preprocessor
Init encounters complete.
Gauging: enc
Gauging: cann
Gauging: ships
IslandsInit: 22 islands loaded.
Gauging: islands
Init weathers complete. 0 weathers found.
Gauging: weather
InitSounds (English): created 19 entries.
InitMusic: created 85 entries.
Gauging: Aliases
Gauging: sound
Gauging: goods
Main_LogoVideo() 0
PauseAllSounds
ResumeAllSounds
Main_LogoVideo() -1
Gauging: initgame start
Gauging: createlayers
Gauging: stores
Gauging: sound
Gauging: delete sea env
Gauging: towns
Number of locations: 781
Gauging: locations
IslandsInit: 22 islands loaded.
Gauging: islands
Gauging: wdmap
Gauging: dialogs
Gauging: teleport
bool CreateParticleEntity()
Gauging: particles
Items initialization complete. Loaded 707 items.
Gauging: items
Gauging: quests
Gauging: sea ai groups
Gauging: questmapenc
Gauging: landenc
==> BuildSettings: Sets to default
==> BuildSettings: New settings applied
Gauging: load options
Gauging: models - Total number of models: 937
InitSounds (English): created 19 entries.
InitMusic: created 85 entries.
Gauging: Aliases
Gauging: infoshow
Gauging: initgame done
Init character names complete.
SETTING MUSIC: music_main_menu
SETTING MUSIC: music_main_menu
Done loading
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Error Log

RUNTIME ERROR - file: interface\save_load.c; line: 679
missed attribute: savenameconfirm
RUNTIME ERROR - file: interface\save_load.c; line: 679
no rAP data
RUNTIME ERROR - file: interface\save_load.c; line: 679
missed attribute: savenameconfirm
RUNTIME ERROR - file: interface\save_load.c; line: 679
no rAP data
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System Log

Scanning modules\
Loading modules...
Loaded 0
Reset...
Initializing CORE...
Creating atoms space: 128
done
initializing complete
Initializing DirectX 8
Techniques: 9 shaders compiled.
Techniques: 180 techniques compiled.
Techniques: compiled by 101093301 ticks.
BeginScene
The method call is invalid For example, a method's parameter may have an invalid value
System exit and cleanup:
Mem state: User memory: 0 MSSystem: 0 Blocks: 0
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This is the save screen:
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o_O
Definitely ever seen that before. This is the only thing that looks of the ordinary to me:
Code: 
RUNTIME ERROR - file: interface\save_load.c; line: 679
missed attribute: savenameconfirm
But can't remember ever seeing that in any other log ever before.
 
Assassin Storyline: to Barbados to kill Geffrey Bampfylde, upon leave room or check the menu it says that my time is up and the quest fails
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Just tested this, but cannot confirm. Worked fine for me. :shrug
 
I experienced that blank save screen before. just try clicking the profile icon.
 
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