My mod freezes my game after enabled

My mod freezes my game after enabled

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When i try to activate a small mod i made and enable it it freezes sose:Diplomacy at the screen where you activate mods. is there something im supposed to do? i have all the gameinfo files in "C:\Users\******\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-Diplomacy v1.011" but it still freezes after enabling the mod.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Use the Diplomacy Dev Exe to locate errors in your install root dir e.g.

C:\Program Files\Stardock\Sins of a Solar Empire\Sins of a Solar Empire Diplomacy Dev.exe

GameInfo files are in Mods GameInfo folder e.g.

C:\Users\myfist0\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-Diplomacy v1.011\My mod\GameInfo\BlaBlaBla.entity

If you have any other mods you can check them for directory structure. If you are new to modding, the SoaSE Weebly has lots of good info.

 

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

says

"Text FileArchive missing Label.

File: C:\Users\Robbie\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-Diplomacy v1.011\Vasari Test\GameInfo\AbilitySpawnSquad.entity
Label: numSquads
Line Number:5
Line Contents:expiryTime"

whats that mean?

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Its hard to tell without knowing what values you changed but the Dev did point to where your error is.

what did you change the expiryTime s to?

Edit: compare the modded file with an original and make sure everything matchcase, spelling and placement

Notepad++ has an excellent compare feature

 

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting nooby900, reply 2
says

"Text FileArchive missing Label.

File: C:\Users\Robbie\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Mods-Diplomacy v1.011\Vasari Test\GameInfo\AbilitySpawnSquad.entity
Label: numSquads
Line Number:5
Line Contents:expiryTime"

whats that mean?
End of nooby900's quote

It means that on line number five the game expects to find a parameter "numSquads" to tell the game what to do, but instead finds "expiryTime". In other words the format for the ability is incorrect, where did you get the entity files that you edited?

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

i modifyed sose before any of the expansions came out awile ago and it worked fine when i did it then but know it crashes il have to look into that site u gave me and get back to u later on.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting nooby900, reply 5
i modifyed sose before any of the expansions came out awile ago and it worked fine when i did it then but know it crashes il have to look into that site u gave me and get back to u later on.
End of nooby900's quote

Well the game files have changed quite a bit since then, so you'll need to obtain the reference files for the most recent version of diplomacy.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

thanks i got it workin been playin for a couple of hours. again thank you both for your help:)