Modding Assistance Needed

[Zaffre]

Hi. Several times now I've decided to try my hand at modding using CaptainShooby's event tutorial. However, I'm having an issue. I've triple checked everything was correct, there were no incorrect characters, and installed the modded data.dat. However, whenever I start up the game and it gets past the loading screen, this pops up.

What's going on? Any help would be appreciated!

[Whale Cancer]

It can be a LOT of different things. I constantly test each 4 or 5 lines of XML I write so I know when something breaks.

Care to post what you have done?

[Zaffre]

I ended up deleting the code but it looked something like this.

<event name="SLUG_DERELICT_SHIP">
<text>You find a derelict Slug ship which has a weapon that can be installed on your ship.</text>
<weapon name="RANDOM"/>
</event>

The purpose was to test if I could get a custom event to work, but apparently not.

[Whale Cancer]

I ended up deleting the code but it looked something like this.

<event name="SLUG_DERELICT_SHIP">
<text>You find a derelict Slug ship which has a weapon that can be installed on your ship.</text>
<weapon name="RANDOM"/>
</event>

The purpose was to test if I could get a custom event to work, but apparently not.

Here is a sample event that does the same thing. Your code seems fine... It must be somewhere else? Or is that the whole thing?

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   <event>
      <text>"Thank the Gods. We can finally get out of here!  We're jumping straight home so take this extra weapon. We won't need it, hopefully."</text>
      <weapon name="RANDOM"/>
   </event>

OH! Go File -> Save As... What type of encoding do you have selected?

[Zaffre]

I was editing the file with Notepad++; I just used Save and not Save As. I made the Blazing Cruiser mod like that and it worked fine. Maybe my inexperience caused me to make a stupid decision? :/

[Whale Cancer]

I was editing the file with Notepad++; I just used Save and not Save As. I made the Blazing Cruiser mod like that and it worked fine. Maybe my inexperience caused me to make a stupid decision? :/

Okay, well it needs to be in ANSI encoding. Maybe you changed that by accident at some point, because I don't see anything wrong with the code you posted.