Solved Crash

[DavyJack]

I was playing Hoist the Colours when my game crashed..
I was on Antigua, went to tavern and talked to jack and drow, told me to resupply, transported to store then when i told the owner to show me what he's got, the game crashed.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Error logs?

 

[KillPhil]

did you try it again? seems like one of those rare random ctd's...

 

[DavyJack]

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[Pieter Boelen]

Have you been doing weird things with the weathers?

I vaguely remember seeing that one before, but it's not crash-worthy.
Anyway, I can't afford to look into anything right now, because I'm hard at work at the next Beta 3 WIP code,
which is to include some old, advanced code we've been wanting to include for about two years or something.
Big, big project and I have to do it all by me onesy.

 

[Hylie Pistof]

In other words, you broke it and now you own both halves.

 

[DavyJack]

i didn't touch the weather files. broke it? what?

 

[DavyJack]

did you try it again? seems like one of those rare random ctd's...

yep! that's about it..

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Random CTDs just happen. And because they're random, we won't be able to track them down any time soon.
Can't fix what we can't replicate. So just keep saving often.

 

[KillPhil]

well most of those random ctd's happen at shops, like DavyJack said and I had a few ctd's when quicksaving on open sea. Sometimes even the savegame gets corrupted.

Can we add an autosave-function? Because especially new players will forget to save often and then they might get frustrated when it crashes and they have to travel through half of the archipelago again^^

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Can we add an autosave-function? Because especially new players will forget to save often and then they might get frustrated when it crashes and they have to travel through half of the archipelago again^^

Might be possible. When should it do that though?

 

[KillPhil]

That's the question^^ I would say after every location-reload, but I fear that maybe the game will become unstable (especially on directsail-islandswaps).
Or another possibility every x Minutes, maybe with a #define in the internalsettings? then we could even adjust it or turn it off

I think the best would be a combination of both

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Keep it mind for the future. I'm afraid that whatever we do will end up causing a lot of unforeseen issues down the line....