Everything has gone wrong

[The Wandering Knight]

A guy I know just activated a copy of M and B today, and while I was over watching as he got into the game (I had given him a copy of my troops.text and gotten him the cries of war pack), I noticed a TON of weird things.

A)  Wercheg was Khergit, and most of the cities where either messed up in faction or completely neutral, like some villages.
B)  "Looters" turned out to be a party of 4 "Rhodock Deserters" but since when do Rhodocks get bows?
C)  A "mistrel" had Yimera's lines -- and joined his party.


So what's going on?  I've heard an illegitimate CD key causes issues, so maybe he got one of those?

 

[Archonsod]

Nope, not unless Armagan has changed the protection.

More than likely, his Native module folder is b0rked. Have him try a fresh install and see if it still happens. Oh, and of course check he's running as an admin in Windows at least the first time he activates and plays the game; could simply be Windows is refusing to put files in the proper places.

 

[The Wandering Knight]

But troops.txt has nothing in it that would cause it to mess up cities...so...yeah.

He made a new game after reinstall and it seems fine.

 

[The Wandering Knight]

But that would have messed up the game of everyone who downloaded my mod, as well as his new game.

 

[BloodLuster]

Troop files are connected to items and to party_templates! Those party templates are connected to party files that are connected to kingdom that are connected to villages and stuff! So by changing the troop files you could have a troop wielding an nonexistent item or you could have erased a troop that had a connection to other files all this results either in an error or in a big mess up!

 

[The Wandering Knight]

Oh that sort -- no, all I do is add mercs.  Haven't touched anything outside of that.  I will be giving the party stuff a look at though, so I can find a way to hire mercs at castles.