Hello Everyone,
This is my first post on the forum so helllllooooooo!
Having my savefile 'borked' just a moment ago I've digged around the file and found what was causing my game to crash loading it.
Namely these lines from the gamelog gave me the clue:
'Caused by: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[477107,80]
Message: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x{2}) was found in the value of attribute "{1}" and element is "13".'
So, I've opened up the savegame with Notepad and found the corresponding line causing the error:
'<savedVariant z="197766" hId="FOB_gnophkeh" v="18" c="0" hVId="70a6ae_23" vDN="Standard" s="REFIT" mAAW="true" gV="false">'
And that's basically it - that little '' was crashing my game. All you have to do to fix YOUR savefile is to use the search&change option (ctrl+h) and choose the as item to search leaving the 'change to' line empty. Click change all and save. Enjoy!
Best regards,
Reavenant