Population In City Bar No Show 0,21-47483648>15

[Spillsandstains]

Hello elvers and congers, I've got a bit of a problem, and I wonder if anyone has seen a similar bug/error . . . ok, I finally contact the Mali civ in and the population integer of the city is unreadable. This only happens for thee Mali civ and has happened twice . . . I checked all the xml and couldn't see anything obvious, I even ditched all the Python I'd stitched together and . . . the error still occured. Duh?

Anyone out there who can point me in the right direction as to the origin of the problem?

Visible in the little round bit sometimes is a string that reads 0,21-47483648>15, sometimes it is just blank

What this means is beyond me

I have a theory aliens are trying to communicate to me via my Civ 4 game, last time they spoke to me in Yiddish out of a spring onion.

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

I have no real idea but I would guess there is something different in the definition of that civ in the CivilizationsInfos file. Or it could be the leader I suppose.

 

[isenchine]

Hello Stainless Spill,

It looks Kabbalistic indeed!

Or it looks like the game is trying to display a floating point number where the notation is set to display an integer. How did you get this floating point number as a result for the population is elluding me but it might give you an hint as where to search.

PS/Edit: note that the floating point number might be reasonable (like 4.25 for example), it's just the display of it that makes you doubt of your mental health again.

 

[Spillsandstains]

aha

thank you cygnets and caterpillars. I will check civinfos, lh infos and floating points

 

[Spillsandstains]

hmm errm bit embarrassing, but just in case it's of use to anyone (or "FYI" as you net dinosaurs would say), the error probably was:

at some point I'd removed one of the colour definition pointers completely so it looked like

<colourdefinitiontag1>COLOUR_BORING</colourdefinitiontag1>
<colourdefinitiontag2></colourdefinitiontag2>
<colourdefinitiontag3>COLOUR_POOPY</colourdefinitiontag3>

I haven't tested this yet but I spent a coupla hours setting up various MALI_REBEL civs so I could test every bit where I thought I might had made an error . . . before I discovered the above mistake which goes back 6 months or so

ho hum! still, I love python coding to give your civ a massive advantage . . . it's a sort of justifiable cheatcode. as it is mali will collapse into civil war when they've built 3 cities. good.