What the hell's up with the fort?

[Jason Maffettone]

OK, here's a fun one: Playing through 2nd time since the new install with two VERY DIFFERENT results on the main quest attack on Greenford Fort:

1st Time: Attacked fort, landed, cleared one board inside and then got old screen of what you get for looting.

THIS TIME: Fort is treated like a ship (didn't happen before) and when you exit the victory screen , the screen goes black. Burningf fort icon in upper left corner, blank compass in upper right, the big red X in the lower left. You can go to the F2 and F1 screens normally but you CAN NOT leave the black screen in game. You live there forever in darkness now.

If you hit the number keys it simaltaniously loads shot for cannons and changes land weapons. THERE IS NO ESCAPE from here but the game doesn't seem to think anything's wrong.

The kicker is, I haven't changed ANYTHING since the first time. What the hell is going on? One result one time, another the next.

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[Jason]

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I have that in the 4/22 build.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I suppose that is some sort of bug in the modpack that still needs fixing. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wacko.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":wacko:" border="0" alt="wacko.gif" />

 

[Jason Maffettone]

I notice that a "FORT" ship is in the SShips.int file in PROGRAMS/SHIPS. If I erase this will it solve the problem without disrupting the normal Fort abilities? (in other words will the Fort revert to its unmodified state or is there more to it?)

 

[fudge dragon]

I may be wrong but I think a fort has always been in there even in stock. I may be wrong though

 

[Pieter Boelen]

It has always been there. If you remove it, I think you will have some major crash, because forts have always worked similar to ships as far as the game's concerned.