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I've recently been doing a play through of Deli in Indonesia for the achievement linked to having your capital in Delhi. I recently tried to boot up my game and found the following screen. I know this is corrupted but is there anyway to recover this or is there a quick fix to the problem here? I have a good amount of time in this run and I'd hate to restart. I saved the game to the cloud and have included the files below. It's an Ironman run.
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If it were not Ironman, it is conceivable that it could be rescued by save game editing, if say the corruption was just a few lines garbled or missing. But if it was massively corrupt, or half the file missing, that would not be possible.

However it is Ironman so the save is encrypted - otherwise people would just edit their way to any achievement! Whether the good folks in User Mods have found a way around that I'm not sure.


Sorry that happened to you though! You're saying that both copies are corrupted like that?
 
If it were not Ironman, it is conceivable that it could be rescued by save game editing, if say the corruption was just a few lines garbled or missing. But if it was massively corrupt, or half the file missing, that would not be possible.

However it is Ironman so the save is encrypted - otherwise people would just edit their way to any achievement! Whether the good folks in User Mods have found a way around that I'm not sure.


Sorry that happened to you though! You're saying that both copies are corrupted like that?
I had saved it to the cloud on steam and both the backup and original were like that. Is this a common issue with this update? I've played since the beginning and never had any issues like this occur.
 
Not so far as I know, no.

In your situation i think I'd make manual copies of the save files just before or after each play session just in case!
 
I had a look at the save "delian delhi.eu4" and de-ironmaned it with paperman. It looks like there are errors in the list of historical rulers/heirs/consorts in some countries. In the de-ironmaned save it manifest itself as data about a person directly in the date entry without putting it in an extra section. That data is then followed by the correct entry.
A broken entry looks for example like the following(the correct entry starts at foreign_heir):
Code:
            1455.10.22={
                id={
                    id=13569
                    type=48
                }
                name="Konrad Geuder von Heroldsberg"
                country="ROT"
                DIP=5
                ADM=5
                MIL=6
                culture=franconian
                religion=catholic
                personalities={
                    careful_personality=yes
                    kind_hearted_personality=yes
                }
                birth_date=1417.11.11
                foreign_heir={
                    id={
                        id=13569
                        type=48
                    }
                    name="Konrad Geuder von Heroldsberg"
                    country="ROT"
                    DIP=5
                    ADM=5
                    MIL=6
                    culture=franconian
                    religion=catholic
                    personalities={
                        careful_personality=yes
                        kind_hearted_personality=yes
                    }
                    birth_date=1417.11.11
                }
            }
Some part of this might come from the de-ironmanning, but the ironman save is broken at the same place. The first broken entry is for the country Bosnia (tag order 19). I tried to fix it, but when loading the save I noticed that there are more broken entries and I gave up. I don't know if there are other things broken with the save or how it could happen. Some of the foreign_heir entries which I looked at are very weird(e.g. Byzantium having a totemist heir from a north american tag in 1452 with a queen from Kham (in Tibet)).
There doesn't seem to be anything missing from the save (the game just stops processing it when it encounters a broken entry), so it could potentially be recovered. If you would like to continue it as a non-ironman save, you could use paperman to de-ironman it and then fix the entries with a good text editor(e.g. notepad++). But I'm not aware of any tool to do such a modification on an ironman save and even if it exists, it would disable achievements unless that part of the save is not protected by the checksum or somebody reverse engineered the checksum algorithm.

Maybe you could make a bugreport with your save, because there is a chance that a bug in the game caused the corruption. This won't help for your game, but a bugfix would prevent the issue from happening again. It is certainly not a common bug, but I have seen one post about a heir/ruler/consort of a culture which should have been impossible at that stage of the game and that could have been caused by the same problem(unfortunately I don't remember the specifics)

Disclaimer: I'm not working for Paradox. I'm just trying to help people.
 
Hey! Just chiming in to say that this happened to me too. Pretty much the same situation, I was playing entirely on the cloud and the game corrupted in the exact same way. I'll attach the file in case it helps with bug fixing for anyone.
 

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Hey! Just chiming in to say that this happened to me too. Pretty much the same situation, I was playing entirely on the cloud and the game corrupted in the exact same way. I'll attach the file in case it helps with bug fixing for anyone.
I had a look at your save and it looks like it has the same broken history entries.
I think @DashingDingo never made a bugreport about this. If nobody else posted a bugreport, the developers might not be aware of the problem. I suggest that you have a look at the bugreport forum if you can find bugreports which have the same corruption and if there are none, make a new bugreport this. You could include the information from in my previous comment. If there is already a bugreport, you could add your save (and my information) there
 
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I had a look at your save and it looks like it has the same broken history entries.
I think @DashingDingo never made a bugreport about this. If nobody else posted a bugreport, the developers might not be aware of the problem. I suggest that you have a look at the bugreport forum if you can find bugreports which have the same corruption and if there are none, make a new bugreport this. You could include the information from in my previous comment. If there is already a bugreport, you could add your save (and my information) there
Awesome! I reported it yesterday, let's see how it goes. Thank for your help man