CTD always just before papal faction starts turn

**Ocyalos** · February 01, 2020, 05:57 AM

Hi.

I changed a faction (france) to be the papal faction. Now, every time just before france starts its turn, I get the

[system.rpt] [error] Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit

error message.

I have a script that logs me every time a faction is starting and ending its turn. The last entry in the log is always the one saying that the faction BEFORE france (papal faction) has ended its turn. There is no log entry that says that france has started its turn. What am I doing wrong? What does happen between two factions turns? Which triggers and so on are executed? Is it possible that the crash comes because there are no cardinals and maybe the pope is trying to die?

**Ocyalos** · February 01, 2020, 06:27 AM

Sorry I do not know how to edit the post, but I forgot to add: It does not crash EVERY turn, but its lose a 1/3 chance that the game will crash right before turn start of papal faction. Also, it does seem not to happen until after the first ~15-20 turns.

**Leonardo** · February 01, 2020, 07:54 AM

Originally Posted by Ocyalos

Sorry I do not know how to edit the post

You need 25 posts before being able to edit your post.

**Ocyalos** · February 01, 2020, 04:41 PM

What is also interesting: After ~40 turns, the CTDs went away. Played now ~60 more turns without any CTD. Isnt that strange?

**Ocyalos** · February 02, 2020, 11:04 AM

Can nobody help me?

**Gigantus** · February 03, 2020, 05:51 AM

A lot of stuff is directly tied to the papal_states faction being the pope's faction. Making france the pope's faction will have caused that error.

**Ocyalos** · February 04, 2020, 04:39 AM

Originally Posted by Gigantus

A lot of stuff is directly tied to the papal_states faction being the pope's faction. Making france the pope's faction will have caused that error.

I suspected that, but is that really hardcoded? I recall that papal faction can be transferred to another faction with no problems if all the proper files have been edited.

**Gigantus** · February 04, 2020, 05:00 AM

It's a big IF - the special_faction_type transfer is the least of the issues.

Which brings me to the queston: why on earth would you want to rename the data name of the faction (which is referenced in numerous files) if all you have to do is change the display name in data\text\expanded.txt?