The Cure For Awful Luck: Save File Edits

[grifflw]

So I've hit September but haven't hit Promotion II because I've somehow only fought the basic Church of Dagon soldiers despite having researched them extensively. This is despite my having hit every other requirement 2 months ago. I'm having traumatic flashbacks of the last time I played this game and over a year in I somehow hadn't caught a Red dawn Pioneer yet.

How would I go about say... editing the safe file and putting a Tier 2 Church of Dagon soldier into my prison to be interrogated? And maybe double-check that the "Has Researched Church of Dagon" flag has been raised.

[Juku121]

You mean you're lacking a Disciple of Dagon? The green cucumber hat guy? How... Never mind, I don't even want to know.

Editing is simple: find your save (usually in 'user/x-com files'), open it up in something like NPP and find the line that says

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bases:
Then look for

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    name: [your super secret base name]
and then for

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    items:
and don't conduse it with craft inventory which has

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        items:
Then just add a line saying

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      STR_DISCIPLE_OF_DAGON: 1
under it. Voila, one fresh cultist for the Intelligence Lady to play with.

As to "Has Researched Church of Dagon", what you actually need is 'Church of Dagon Network'. Both this and 'Church of Dagon' show up under 'Reports' in Ufopedia. Church you should to have gotten already from a plain bearded cultist, though.

[grifflw]

The way that it happened is that somehow I never got a "Safehouse" mission and have only continued to get "investigation" missions. So basically I've been waiting this entire time hoping that maybe I would be lucky enough to get a mission where I can find a Disciple of Dagon in the first place.

Anyway, thank you for telling me. I'm going to do myself a favor and throw the Disciple of Dagon in my cells now

[Chuckebaby]

I tried doing this and after research was complete, I got nothing. Probably just something different in my case, maybe I already had it researched and didn't know it. My issue is with the black lotus avatar lady. Cant add it to items for some reason.
The save wont load. I think it's my spacing in NotePad++.

I hit return and then add the line. Sorry to highjack your thread bud.

[Juku121]

Easiest way to resolve this would be for you to post your save.

[grifflw]

I've done mine correctly as far as I can tell. I just need to actually do the research and see if it pans out

[Juku121]

I meant Chuckebaby.

[Chuckebaby]

I meant Chuckebaby.

I ended up catching everything I needed but I need to go back and test my mod skills with saved game files.
Every time I hit return to create a line in notepad+ I end up corrupting the file. It wont load.

To be honest, I might not even be using the correct terminology (corrupt). I am totally green to doing my own modding on saved game files but I am able to do some stuff that got me through it.

Thanks for the offer though juku.
Happy new year bud.

[Juku121]

And a good new one to you as well!

No idea how you 'corrupt' your saves. In my experience, a blank line won't be a problem. And even if it is, it'll tell you what and, more importantly, where the 'corruption' is.

[Chuckebaby]

And a good new one to you as well!

No idea how you 'corrupt' your saves. In my experience, a blank line won't be a problem. And even if it is, it'll tell you what and, more importantly, where the 'corruption' is.

Your right. It is no doubt me. I'm still inexperienced at modding. Getting better but still have a lot to learn.
Thanks for the help you've given me here. Even just reading comments helps me out.