Editing Startpos.esf and CTD's

[dutchcarnage]

So, I've been doing some toying around with the startpos.esf file. I have the dbeditor to look things up and the ESf editor to actually change the startpos file. And I've read through most of this; http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=272139

Unfortunately it's not going entirely as planned and I'm wondering if someone might mind giving me a few pointers.


I've changed the starting gold of Britain using the esfeditor, and started a new campaign and this works fine. So far so good.

Next step I want to try is adding a second starting tech to the same faction. Let's say Empirism. The research cost is 38, so I look up the correct tech in the correct faction, change the second line (2) to 0 and change the third line (0) to 38.

I save the changes, and now each time I start up a new campaign, I get a CTD. (CTD occurs when the game is loading the new grand campaign.)

What did I miss? What should I have changed further to get it to work?


On a somewhat related note, using the dbeditor and esfeditor goes fine, but I get an awfull lot of errors as such;

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************** Exception Text **************
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at EsfEditor.Parser.TitleParser.TitlesInValues(List`1 vals, Boolean& found)
at EsfEditor.Parser.TitleParser.GetTitle(IEsfNode node, List`1& children)
at EsfEditor.Forms.EsfEditorForm.treeView_AfterExpand(Object sender, TreeViewEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.TreeView.OnAfterExpand(TreeViewEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.TreeView.TvnExpanded(NMTREEVIEW* nmtv)
at System.Windows.Forms.TreeView.WmNotify(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.TreeView.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4952 (win7RTMGDR.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorlib.dll
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EsfEditor 1.4.8
Assembly Version: 1.4.8.0
Win32 Version: 1.4.8.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Administrator.NTB-Peter/Desktop/EsfEditor%201.4.8/EsfEditor%201.4.8.exe
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System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
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System
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
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System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
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System.Configuration
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll
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System.Xml
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
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goxocbch
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.4927 (NetFXspW7.050727-4900)
CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
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jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
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<configuration>
<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
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rather than be handled by this dialog box.

Is there anything I can do to reduce that number?