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In case you didn't see Broken Erika's thread, fatal error when trying start ToT, Catfish deciphered the error code that pops up when you load ToT with a Rules.txt containing an error. 
In the error dialog, ToT lists:
The firs number in quotes refers to the section in Rules.txt. The third (31), refers to the line in that section (line #1 = 0)
Btw, did his advice work Broken_Erika?
AFAIK, Catfish is banned from 'Poly for not having a valid email in his profile. He mentioned trying once to clear it with MarkG, but gave up after that. If you want to ask him anything directly, just post on CivFan.
In the error dialog, ToT lists:
Code:
Error "-6" in module "3" data: 31 0
Originally posted by Wobbegong aka Catfish
You can generate these error messages deliberately. In a minute or so, you'd have figured out that module 3 is consistent with a rules.txt file error, and that the negative error numbers correspond to various tables. A few examples:
-4 @CIVILIZE or @ENDWONDER
-5 @IMPROVE
-6 @UNITS
-7 @TERRAIN
The data values indicate the position in the table where the error was generated. That's how I hunt down these types of errors. So far it's worked every time.
You can generate these error messages deliberately. In a minute or so, you'd have figured out that module 3 is consistent with a rules.txt file error, and that the negative error numbers correspond to various tables. A few examples:
-4 @CIVILIZE or @ENDWONDER
-5 @IMPROVE
-6 @UNITS
-7 @TERRAIN
The data values indicate the position in the table where the error was generated. That's how I hunt down these types of errors. So far it's worked every time.
AFAIK, Catfish is banned from 'Poly for not having a valid email in his profile. He mentioned trying once to clear it with MarkG, but gave up after that. If you want to ask him anything directly, just post on CivFan.
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Either the post makes no sense (let me know if this is true), no one makes mistakes in Rules.txt anymore, no one likes Catfish, it's too controversial, or it's common knowledge.
I knew about this ages ago anyway. I never really bothered to find out what exactly the numbers were, but I knew they referred to the text files, their sections and lines. I've never really done enough editing to give it too much thought.
, the community seems divided between the hex-savvy, for whom this is as new and clever as a Baldrick plan, and the nontechie designers for whom this is a 
. Yeah, I s'pose it's one of those areas that I should learn more, but I seem to keep getting side-tracked by surfing for history.
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