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Quote from: Tarquin on December 22, 2018, 11:46:40 pm

Hi, me again, decided to pick this back up after a while. Have a new problem; I seem to be unable to give my people more clips. The usual method, clicking the letter for the ammo clips and then choosing a number for which person to give a clip to, doesn't seem to work. The prompts appear, but no clips disappear from my storage and my people still clearly only have one clip on them. I don't suppose you changed anything about how to assign ammo clips? Else it seems I am the victim of a bug.

I have been unable to duplicate this bug.

Can you post screenshots of exactly what you are doing, and describe exactly what key strokes you are making, so that I can find out?

It's that the prompt for "how many" of that item never appears. It's the prompt that you are supposed to enter a number for. It happens when trying to sell an item you have multiple copies of, and when trying to equip ammo when you have multiple clips.

If it's only ammo you're trying to equip, there's an alternate method to doing so: press the up arrow key while in the equip menu, and then it will ask you which liberal to add a single clip to.

Here's some other bugs I ran into:

When Supervillains attack the wilderness "just for kicks" trying to fight them off causes the error message Creatures : : Get_supervillain_Type: index 3 bad to appear, and then the game will crash.

Also, I had an incident where there were 2 Supervillain lairs with the same name, but upon reloading the game, one of the names changed to something else.

Thanks again for all your hard work on this mod!

Edit: Here's a picture of the prompt that appears in the 4.12.31 version of normal LCS:


I cannot get this prompt to appear in the Terra Vitae 1.62 version at all, while in some older versions it would appear. Without the prompt, nothing gets equipped at all if it needs to first use that prompt.

You get to this prompt by pressing the number assigned to the clips you are trying to equip: In my screenshot that is A.

One weird thing I just realized is that my game seems to create two different save files: one named "saveTV1.5.dat" and one named "saveTV1.6.dat". They seem to have some sort of strange influence on each other, because I was having issues getting secret TV missions until I deleted the saveTV1.5.dat file.

I still seem to get random crashing when trying out secret missions too.

Basically, if both dat files are in the same folder as the .exe then the only prompt when trying to get a secret mission is "looking for possible mission goals" and will never find a mission.

If you delete/remove the 1.5 dat file, then the prompt will be to "weaken/destroy the NEC!" and missions CAN activate.

EDIT: The game used to save after each day, but now it doesn't. It DOES still save if pressing x to quit the game. Is the daily save function saving itself as 1.5 instead of 1.6?

I know earlier there were some issues that seemed exclusive to the Windows version, perhaps that's what's going on here as well?

Am I using the correct version of the mod? The link on the first post goes to 1.493, but in the comments there's one called 1.494.

The 1.493 version has music, while for the 1.494 one only the NoMusic is available for download.

Fixed another serious bug in the First Trial of the Phoenix (dying with alternate lives caused you to be revived with 1 hp left)

Have you tried using cheat commands to find the TV House or TV office on the Windows version yet?

Using the cheat commands places the character into the TV House and into the TV Office, but the sites are still not revealed.

Maybe I'm really dense, but I still can't seem to find the Terra Vitae office or the TV Leader's house in non-National mode even in the new 1.491 version. They are present in National mode, though.

Thanks for the quick update! I have yet to find a TV Agent in the wild, but I did acquire a sleeper TV Agent at the Office--this didn't reveal the location of the office, so I'll have to try out your suggestion--I'll update this post if I get results.

I did find one thing that is arguably  a bug--Although fighting Superpowered minions at the Secret Lair doesn't net you any crimes, if you try to leave the lair and get followed by conservative swine, fighting those minions WILL get you murder/assault charges. A case could be made that since it's outside the lair, the government would know about it.

Also, I have a suggestion--doing secret Terra Vitae missions is basically a skill check for those that go on the missions, and failure means instant death for all involved. I have a feeling this would be a lot more coding work, but maybe if you fail a mission, instead of having all those agents instantly get killed, you could be placed in a site surrounded by hostile, alarmed conservatives that the agent(s) need to escape from. It would still allow the raw randomness and importance of having skilled agents, but also would have at least a little bit of player control in salvaging the failed mission.

UPDATE: Loveslaves/recruiting doesn't seem to reveal the location of the offices. I have yet to successfully try interrogation since it's hard to do so against moderate/liberal characters.

Also, Supervillains spawning in the wilderness seems to crash the game.

Finally, you are correct about the TV Leader's house--It appears in National LCS mode properly. I think I will simply start anew in National Mode next time, and to recommend to anyone starting a game to use National LCS Mode, otherwise you'll not be able to work with Terra Vitae.