Topic: ShipEdit: Why am I not seeing my changes?

[Stinky]

I'm playing SFC1 and I'm stuck on the Klingon Black Fleet Mission "A Hole in Time and Space - Part 2".  I've played in a couple dozen times and I always fail.

What Would Kirk Do?  Cheat!

So I loaded up ShipEdit and it looks like I can make all sorts of changes.  But my changes never seem to show up in the game.  I can load the Lyran FQS ship down with all sorts of weapons and shields, but it's always the same rickety balsa wood ship with paper thin shields that gets destroyed before I can blink twice.

Other than saving the sfbspc13.txt file, which I'm doing, what do I need to do to make Ship Edit changes show up in the game?

Thanks!

[Stinky]

I think I figured this out.

When I made a backup copy of my sfbspc13.txt file, I put it in the SAME directory as the sfbspc13.txt file itself, namely:

C:\Program Files\14 East\Starfleet Command\assets\specs

So I had both sfbspc13.txt and backupsfbspc13.txt in the above directory.

Apparently this is a BIG NO-NO.  Once I moved the backup file out of that directory, I could see all my changes.

I probably could have made the world a better place in the time it took me to figure that out.  Now I am going to soak my head.

[Javora]

That's odd, usually when you rename a data file (such as backupsfbspc13.txt for example) that a program needs, the program skips over the renamed data file in search of the "correct" data file.  It almost sounds like the program was tasked to use any .txt file in the specs folder which is poor programing IMHO.  You want to use a specific data file name for testing purposes.

[GotAFarmYet?]

Old bug

It could be that the programers have a encode in the file, or it just scans for the 13.txt, or the size
But has was noted, you just can not keep a backup in the same directory

[Stinky]

Is there a list of old bugs anywhere?  I'd really rather not spend that much time figuring out old bugs if I don't have to.