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Released Mods / Re: [STAT TRACKING] Soldier Diaries 1.0

« on: July 27, 2014, 05:25:22 am »

Yeah, the service medal is based on months, not missions; end of month, everyone gets one! Yaaay! All your soldiers can feel special.

I still haven't found time to play, so all I can do is sit here and wonder why Hobbes gets crashes, ivandogovich is running smooth, and Elyseon gets uncalled for commendations.

I was a bit confused because the Service Medal's description states that it's awarded when they first join. Anyway, I'll keep poking around that new save file and will let you know if it acts up again.

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Released Mods / Re: [STAT TRACKING] Soldier Diaries 1.0

« on: July 25, 2014, 10:58:34 pm »

I'm using the Legacy Debug build Shoes posted here earlier. Things seem to be working fine since starting a new game. I guess the reason why the X-COM Service Medal wasn't already there is because it's supposed to kick in at the end of the month? At least that's what happened to me.
Kind of wondering how many Black Crosses these guys will end up with on the long run now. Heh, damn rookies.

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Released Mods / Re: [STAT TRACKING] Soldier Diaries 1.0

« on: July 25, 2014, 08:49:34 pm »

Just to be clear here, which build of the Legacy version did you use?
EDIT: Acting upon this latest update, I decided to try a different approach and start a new game. Things seem to be working fine now, so I'm guessing there was some leftover data in the previous saves that didn't take well to the updates? Also, did you remove that medal rookies get upon being recruited? That threw me for a loop until the first actual mission, since I wasn't 100% sure the mod was working, but everything seems to be fine now.

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Released Mods / Re: [STAT TRACKING] Soldier Diaries 1.0

« on: July 24, 2014, 07:18:03 pm »

Someone else has also reported issues with the Commendations mod.

No hurries

In regard to that thread, I can attest that so far, purging the config file doesn't seem to have had any effect.

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Released Mods / Re: [STAT TRACKING] Soldier Diaries 1.0

« on: July 24, 2014, 06:00:32 pm »

I can try to set up a dropbox and put up a zip with the game files I'm currently using, if you think it'll help.

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Suggestions / Re: [SUGGESTION-UNCUT][#068] New game mechanism: Liberation Mission

« on: July 24, 2014, 05:53:48 pm »

OK, but please let the 8 countries limit not be hardcoded as a simple number, but be a percentage of all members or something. The reason is, there are successful modding attempts to add more countries.

I'm not sure the universe is ready for Portuguese, Brazilian and similiar X-COM operatives. Especially if they decide to borrow a page from South Africa and weaponize vuvuzelas.

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Suggestions / Re: Making an alien race operate only at night ?

« on: July 24, 2014, 05:48:19 pm »

Yes, Yes we do Space Vampires sound awesome

As long as they don't sparkle... That's where I'm drawing the line!

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Suggestions / Re: Civilians in transport should count as saved

« on: July 24, 2014, 05:47:42 pm »

Wait... you're supposed to save civilians??

To me that's a novel concept 

I know right? Especially when they tend to commit suicide by stupidity. "Oh, what's that thing over there shooting green bolts of death? I think I'll go give it a hug!" "Oh, a soldier trying to save me! I'd better run around like a retard and block the doorways or stand in his line of fire!"

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Released Mods / Re: [STAT TRACKING] Soldier Diaries 1.0

« on: July 24, 2014, 05:09:50 pm »

Using that particular Legacy build seems to cause a crash at the end of the mission. The same seems to happen both when finishing the current mission file and when reverting to an earlier Geoscape save file. After doing several reinstalls of the original game files and disabling other mods I'd installed after getting this one, I'm pretty sure it's something in this one that's causing the crashes. Further experimentation has shown that using the modified dlls and exe, but with the commendations mod disabled in the options allows the mission to finish as normal.

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Released Mods / Re: [STAT TRACKING] Soldier Diaries 1.0

« on: July 24, 2014, 03:26:17 am »

Be sure to use the build appropriate for the version of the game you play. If you're playing 1.0, use the Legacy version. If you want to reset the commendations, enable debug mode in geoscape (ctrl+d) and then clear commendations (ctrl+c). An old version of my mod had that issue, but it should be fixed now ...

As for the rambo medal, maybe I could add a medal that gets awarded if you're alone, you kill all the aliens, using only rifles and grenades, in the jungle tileset. At night? I only ever watched the first 15 minutes of the first movie ;p

Still testing and trying to see if I can get one of the Legacy builds to work properly again. The weird thing is, I'm pretty sure it was doing just fine last time I played. Anyway, here's the error I keep getting when trying to download from the mod page itself.

THERE WAS AN ERROR
The page you requested was not found. Please try again.

DISABLED: TEMPORARY PAGE

I'm going to see if I can get the debug mode to clear things up, and I'll chime in with the results.

EDIT: OK, I'm using version 1.0, and managed to do a little testing using a zip with the Legacy build of the mod. Unless I'm doing something wrong, I can't seem to get debug mode to activate. Also, the only legacy version the site is letting me download right now is the 0.92 one. All the others give me that error message above and the nightly gives me that mission crash.

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Released Mods / Re: [STAT TRACKING] Soldier Diaries 1.0

« on: July 23, 2014, 10:25:54 pm »

While you're at it, you may want to consider renaming that particular award to Rambo Medal (or Chuck Norris?)  A mission done with just one soldier? That's 80s movie hardcore.

EDIT: Upon finding a build of the mod that wouldn't crash the game at the end of the mission, the game promptly went crazy and gave my troops ALL OF THE MEDALS!

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Released Mods / Re: [STAT TRACKING] Soldier Diaries 1.0

« on: July 23, 2014, 09:50:26 pm »

As of late, the mod seems to be causing a crash at the end of a mission. Switching between the nightly build and the Legacy Debug version produces the same result. Also, the download link from the mod page itself seems to be broken.