[problem solved!] the Ogre Kingdoms mod has suddenly collapsed in my game--any ideas?

[Bananadine]

BandarLover is playing as Ogre Kingdoms (version 0.7) in the LlamaServer game Redwich. He reports:

"Possible bug? My Ogre Butchers no longer have their national blood battle spells available to cast. And my gem/slave producing capital sites are all blank. And my sacreds are missing, along with my recruitable giant. Thoughts?"

Can you help??

[Bananadine]

(We are using Skavenblight, Arga Dis, and CBM 1.5. I understood Gregstrom's research to indicate that there was no conflict amongst these mods.)

[Gregstrom]

Well, if the game started out fine (and since it's turn 26, I guess it did) then I doubt it's a mod conflict. The first obvious question I can think of is: Has Bandarlover installed v0.8 recently?

[Sombre]

Sounds like he has. The spells should reappear next turn iirc.

The sites he's lost for good as long as you're using 0.8 - so no sacreds, no giant.

[Gregstrom]

Reading the game thread confirms this - he reinstalled 0.7 and all was well again.

I think including a version number in the #modname entry might prevent this problem, btw.

[Bananadine]

Hooray, thanks!

[Sombre]

Reading the game thread confirms this - he reinstalled 0.7 and all was well again.

I think including a version number in the #modname entry might prevent this problem, btw.

Would it? Seems more like it would either do nothing or make the problem even worse.

[Gregstrom]

It does nothing. For some reason I thought Dom3 handled mods according to their #modname rather than filename. Oops.

Changing the filename of the .dm file with each release would work, though.

[Sombre]

Could do. It's not the norm, but I guess the only reason why not is that sometimes updates can be applied fine without wrecking a game - in fact you potentially fix problems. Also it might get a bit confusing.

[Gregstrom]

Could do. It's not the norm,


I guess not, but CBM uses it to good effect :D

[chrispedersen]

I can't really follow this thread, but I can tell you this:

As long as the version number doesn't change, you can unload change, and load a mod during a game, and it will work. (This is what I had to do with UlmCivilWar).

[Sombre]

Version number makes no difference. All that matters is the filename.

[Sombre]

All Praise Filename.

[Gregstrom]

Careful, the RNG will get jealous... and then the trouble will really start.