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[LetsRetreat]

I'm on a Mac, running what I assume is the latest version of Starsector (purchased/downloaded yesterday), with Zaphide's Exerelin and LazyWizard's LazyLib mods.

When I click Continue, the progress bar takes a long time to finish, and when it does I get a message (and I'm paraphrasing here) that I should "check logs" and "mods may be outdated or not enabled." Some of the time it never finishes loading at all. The same thing happens when I try to load from the saved games.

I don't know how to check the logs, and I've made sure the mods were still checked before launching. Any ideas?

More details, if it helps:

• Playing on pretty much the largest scale map with all of the factions enabled
• Using the hell out of the Omnifactory
• Level 30 with a 45/50 size fleet

[LazyWizard]

Did you update your version of Exerelin recently? Mod updates aren't always save-compatible, unfortunately.

If not, could you post the end of your starfarer.log starting with the line near the end that says something like "com.fs.starfarer.campaign.save.CampaignGameManager  - Loading ..\\saves/save_<charname>_####"? You can find the logfile in the starsector-core folder inside the directory where you installed Starsector.

[LetsRetreat]

I haven't updated since playing.

Trying to find the log file...

After "Show Package Contents" for the application I can see the folders Contents, Logs, Mods, Saves, and Screenshots. Only the folders Contents, Mods, and Saves have anything in them.

[LazyWizard]

Ah, right. I forgot about the problems with starfarer.log on Macs.

Would you be willing to upload your save so I could take a look?

[LetsRetreat]

Sure thing

http://we.tl/hZJDmw807h

[LazyWizard]

It loaded fine, but I think you uploaded the wrong save. That one was a level 1 character named Chaos.

[LetsRetreat]

 

Whoops!

2 seconds, let me get you the right one....

[LetsRetreat]

See if this does the trick

http://we.tl/xNE6QSMOFs

[LazyWizard]

Level 20 character named Legion, with a Paragon, some Wolves, and a bunch of Defenders? Loads fine as well.

Starsector keeps a backup of the last save you made for each file. If you rename campaign.xml.bak to campaign.xml in your save folder, you might be able to load it again (though it'd be one save behind, of course).

[LetsRetreat]

Back in business! The backup save worked, and since I save regularly (Bethesda taught me harsh lessons) I haven't lost much progress. I'm considering shelving those Defenders, they seem pretty unbalanced... but I digress!

Thanks so much for your help dude.

Always nice to find a helpful and active community! I think I'm going to like it here...

[Pelly]

Pro Tip: To check logs on a mac.

1)Show Package Contents
2)Contents
3)MacOS
4)JavaApplicationStub

The terminal Application will start, which shows all the files loaded when starsector loads, so just click start starsector then when it crashes you can find the error in the terminal.