Unhandled Exception bug in Tutorial 3

[Jake Spectre]

When I was playing tutorial 3, I got to the point where you created a command station. After this was done, I got a message in an infinite loop saying You've captured an Advanced Research Station! - Unhandled Exception. It wouldn't let me continue the tutorial. I'm running version 4.022, on Windows 7 64-bit.

[keith.lamothe]

Welcome to the forums   Sorry to hear about the troubles, though.

Can you please check your game directory (and its RuntimeData subdirectory) for any error log files?  If you find any, please post them here, as without them we have very little chance of finding the error.

[Jake Spectre]

Here it is. Thanks for the help.

[keith.lamothe]

Well, that's interesting.  It's trying to get an entry in a ShipType-indexed dictionary, and the dictionary doesn't know what it's talking about  

Thanks, we'll take a look.

[keith.lamothe]

Chris, I just committed a fix that should at least prevent the crash, but I couldn't figure out why the underlying problem (it either not finding anything in this.LocalPlayer.UnlockedBonusShipTypes around line 974 for TutorialStep.cs, or finding one that doesn't exist in ShipTypeData.Dictionary ) was happening, or really how it could happen.

Anyway, you should probably take a look to make sure what I did won't make it worse.

[x4000]

Okay, I've looked through this and it seems solid.  I suppose this could come about if the ARS was somehow destroyed before the planet was captured, something along those lines.  THAT shouldn't happen, but in the event that it does the tutorial won't be stalled, at least.

[rafgeens]

I've encountered the same problem in 4.021, with the same dictionary exception in the logs. The advanced research station was still intact when I built the command station. I've attached a savegame where it starts looping when you load it.

[x4000]

Yes, this was fixed in a version after 4.022 -- you'll want to use the latest betas to avoid this if it happens to hit you (though it's a fairly rare bug from what we can tell).  Sorry about that,  but also welcome to the forums!

[rafgeens]

Alright, thanks

[x4000]

My pleasure!