Game shuts off when I go to campaign

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The game shuts off when I go to capaign. What happens is the game works for about a week,
then the candidates state names won't come up. What I mean is that it'll say John Kerry Democrat
From, (then it won't say massachussettes). Then when I click READY it goes to the place where
you pick your opponent and when I click START the game minimizes and shuts off. This happened
once before, I had to re-install the game and was very pissed. I had beaten all the Republicans and
had dozens of custom characters. Then state names stopped appearing and the game kept shutting
off. I had to re-install. Right now i'm on Woodrow Wilson and have dozens more of custom characters
and the state names won't come up anymore. I really don't want to have to re-install and start from
scratch again.


So for those of you who read this far my questions are these,
1. Do you need more detail about the problem
2. Does anyone else have this problem
3. Is their some cheat code that unlocks all the Democrats Republicans, because I've beaten all the
Republicans twice and seven of the democrats and I don't want to do it again
4. Is this a fixable error
5. Is there a way for me to put all the information about custom characters and characters I've unlocked
in a seperate folder and then re-install the game and put that information back into the newly installed
game
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Reply #1 from PolMach Forums Top
I can't answer anything about the techicaal problems, but there is a way to unlock all the Dems and Reps.

A) CampaignUsers.Users
This one's pretty simple. It contains the info for which candidates are
locked up at the beginning of the game. Delete all info under
[LockedPotrtraits] and [LockedCandidates] and you will now have all
candidates unlocked. Editing this doesn't disable Multiplayer, oddly enough.

Its a file in the Data folder, and it requires editing, so back up the file before you try. Hope that helps.
Reply #2 from PolMach Forums Top
I know this is cheating but I've beaten all the candidates twice, so I'm going to make
a ethical exception, unless I figure out how to fix the technical problems.
Sins of a Solar Empire II
Reply #3 from PolMach Forums Top
Generally the error you are describing is caused by improper characters in the custom candidate's names. If you created them with the 1.02 patch, it should have replaced the nonalphanumeric characters with an underscore character in the places where it causes the error to happen. Otherwise, you would have to do it yourself.

The filename and the header of the custom candidate file should match, and neither should contain nonalphanumeric characters, including spaces, but they should work with underscores.

So if you have a custom candidate Jean-Luc Picard, the file name should be Jean_LucPicard.candidate and the header inside the file should say CANDIDATE Jean_LucPicard.

--Cari
Reply #4 from PolMach Forums Top
^^ Heheh, just a note, but CariElf, I like that example. *Is a Star Trek fan* *dies* sorry for the off topic comment though.
Reply #5 from PolMach Forums Top
Well, I did make a candidate called George H. W. Bush. Would the periods do it?
I, however, can't find him anymore, his bio is gone. I can't click on him becasue
it's not there. Is there some folder I can find a list of all the candidates on?
Reply #6 from PolMach Forums Top
despite the morale and ethical setback I just tried your idea Ashkihyena
and it worked. Also I never knew that Jefferson was the last democrat.
Jefferson was no democrat, he was the most conservative president we
ever had! He believed in little if not any government regualtion, and no
taxes!
Reply #7 from PolMach Forums Top
Actully, that wasn't my idea, I just copied that off of GameFAQs, glad to see that it worked decently. Also, I don't know about the President's. You'd have to take it up with Ubisoft and Stardock and such, they could probably tell ya why they put him the way they did.
Reply #8 from PolMach Forums Top
well actually, I received a letter from democrats yesterday and it turns out Thomas Jefferson is
the official creator of the democratic party.
Reply #9 from PolMach Forums Top
Hehe, I guess that would be why he's a Democrat then. *chuckles* Glad to see ya got an answer to that as well.
Reply #10 from PolMach Forums Top
The democratic party back then was a totally different democratic party then today. If you study US history, you will find out there have been about 5 or 6 totally different parties that are all called the democractic party.
Reply #11 from PolMach Forums Top
Yes, the periods would cause problems. It probably saved the file as GeorgeH.W.Bush.Candidate, so it probably doesn't recognize it as a candidate file.