Can any playtesters look at this?

[Gandalf Parker]

I dont mod well enough, and dont have the time to look at one carefully, so I will toss this out and you cn forget it if its dumb.

The only mod I did try to do was an All_Nations mod. The problems I ran into was that the game did not handle duplicate handles well. I had to go thru and rename ALL of the nations so Ulm became early_Ulm, mid_Ulm, and late_Ulm. The empty slots became named as their number slots such as Nation_70.

Is there any chance of a "two using the same handle" situation in your mod? Like I said, I havent looked at it so if thats a stupid question then forget it.

[Endoperez]

Actually, Gandalf, that might be the cause. Machaka, Spider Cult is named Machaka, and having it the same game with MA Machaka could cause problems.

[Sombre]

Nah it's not that. It's just a limitation of Dom3 right now.

[Gandalf Parker]

Sounds worth looking at. Keeping to Ulm as an example, in my original version I had been told by other modders that this was all that was needed:
#selectnation 2
#era 1
#end

#selectnation 31
#era 1
#end

#selectnation 52
#era 1
#end

But in play testing it all I got was one of the Ulms as an option. I think it was the first one.

What I ended up having to do was:

#selectnation 2
#name "early Ulm"
#era 1
#end
#selectnation 31
#name "mid Ulm"
#era 1
#end
#selectnation 52
#name "late Ulm"
#era 1
#end

In my case all I was interesting in was getting it to show up on the menu as a nation to play. It apparently only have room for one "Ulm". But Im thinking that if the game treats nations that way then it might also be picky about other things being named the same.

[Sombre]

Yeah I know, but that isn't the problem here. Well, at least as far as I know.

I've never run into the game caring about things with the same name apart from on the nation selection screen, where as you say you can't have two called simply 'Ulm'.

[DrPraetorious]

Yeah, that isn't the problem.

You can name the units "1" through "110" (or whatever number it was) and it still triggers the error, IIRC.

[Johan K]

Good news everyone. The bug has been squashed for the next version of Dominions (3.11).

[Endoperez]

Nice! Now we only have to wait 3 to 6 months for the patch to appear!