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Author Topic: fatal.null errors on 0.97 modless  (Read 253 times)

lixbe

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fatal.null errors on 0.97 modless
« on: March 08, 2025, 01:04:01 PM »

Greeting,
I'm getting fatal.null errors on 0.97 modless version of star sector

The log transcript is the following:

1463116 [Thread-4] ERROR com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatMain  - java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at com.fs.starfarer.api.impl.campaign.intel.bases.PirateBaseIntel.updateStationIfN eeded(PirateBaseIntel.java:500)
   at com.fs.starfarer.api.impl.campaign.intel.bases.PirateBaseIntel.checkForTierChan ge(PirateBaseIntel.java:626)
   at com.fs.starfarer.api.impl.campaign.intel.bases.PirateBaseIntel.advanceImpl(PirateBaseIntel.java:589)
   at com.fs.starfarer.api.impl.campaign.intel.BaseIntelPlugin.advance(BaseIntelPlugin.java:78)
   at com.fs.starfarer.api.impl.campaign.intel.BaseEventManager.advance(BaseEventManager.java:114)
   at com.fs.starfarer.api.impl.campaign.intel.bases.PirateBaseManager.advance(PirateBaseManager.java:59)
   at com.fs.starfarer.campaign.CampaignEngine.advance(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.campaign.CampaignState.advance(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.BaseGameState.traverse(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.state.AppDriver.begin(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatMain.main(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher.super(Unknown Source)
   at com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher$1.run(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

what should i do to fix it ?

br
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Alex

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Re: fatal.null errors on 0.97 modless
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2025, 01:29:18 PM »

Hi - sorry about the trouble! This looks like it's caused by trying to use a save from an older version of the game; it's not save-compatible but unfortunately the older saves still load (but, as you've found, don't actually work).
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Re: fatal.null errors on 0.97 modless
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2025, 12:54:58 AM »

Thats unfortunate but Thank you for your answer
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