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$andman

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"Fatal Illegal group reference" crash
« on: June 04, 2021, 11:50:06 AM »

My game crashes and gives me this "Fatal:Illegal group reference" error when i select certain missions in game(at stations or planets).Not all missions causes my game to crash tho,just a few.I dont have any mods installed either. I often have to quick save before selecting missions so i wont lose my progress.

I have attached the last Starsector log.

Plz help,Thanks.

Otherwise the game works great and have no problems

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Alex

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Re: "Fatal Illegal group reference" crash
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2021, 11:51:39 AM »

Hi - thank you for the report! Could you possibly email me your save, and instructions to reproduce the crash? That would really help track this down.

fractalsoftworks [at] gmail [dot] com
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$andman

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Re: "Fatal Illegal group reference" crash
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2021, 12:11:19 PM »

Thanks for replying so quick,i have attached the file and sent you the Email with instructions
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Re: "Fatal Illegal group reference" crash
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2021, 12:33:47 PM »

Thank you for the save!

Ahh, I see what's going on. The game actually can't handle the $ in the name. The fix for this is to, uh, disallow $ from being a valid character you can enter. To get around this on your end - if you open up your save file (both the .xml files, campaign and descriptor.xml) and replace $andman with something else, that should stop the crashes.
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Re: "Fatal Illegal group reference" crash
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2021, 12:48:26 PM »

Lol i just changed the name in game ,and it worked. Doesn't crash anymore hehe  ;D

 ::) I spent too much time trying to fix this by updating java,reinstalling,asking for help from a lot of guys at the Unofficial Starsector Discord server etc etc

When I should have just come here straight

Anyway ,thanks for helping me out  ;D
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Re: "Fatal Illegal group reference" crash
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2021, 12:57:44 PM »

Glad to help :D

Lol i just changed the name in game ,and it worked. Doesn't crash anymore hehe  ;D

(Oh, right! I forgot it lets you do that now.)
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