Broken game?

I was given the mission to observe the Voinian dreadnought by the UE. They gave me a cloaking device to do this. Unfortunately, I was killed on my first attempt. When I re-loaded my pilot, it said that "this pilot file appears to reference information from a plug-in that is not installed..." etc. Then when the game loads, I no longer have the cloaking device installed! If I return to Earth, nothing happens (suggested by Ambrosia support about a year ago, last time I played). If I abort the mission, the UE attacks me! I have included my pilot log below. Can anyone suggest a solution? Thanks.

EV Nova pilot data dump

Output on 1/5/2005 at 10:00 PM

Game version: 1.0.6

Plugins loaded:
none

Pilot name: Bob
Pilot nickname: Ace
Pilot gender: male
Strict play: no
Seen intro screen: yes
Ship name: Starlance
Ship type: Lazira (173)
Current system: Emalghion (223)
Legal status: 1 (in system 223)
Game date: 12/4/2251
Fuel: 800.00
Cash: 116208
Kills: 3462

Current cargo:
none

Active missions:
Observe Voinian Research Base (183):
travelObjComplete: yes
shipObjComplete: no
missionFailed: no
flags: 1270
flags2: 0000
canAbort: yes
timeLeft: -32000
destStellar: -1
returnStellar: 128
initialShipCount: 1
specialShipCount: 1
specialShipDude: 157
specialShipGoal: 4
specialShipBehavior: -1
specialShipStart: 0
specialShipSyst: 61
specialShipsKilled: 0
specialShipsBoarded: 0
specialShipsDisabled: 0
specialShipsJumpedIn: 1
specialShipsJumpedOut: 0
specialShipNameIndex: 1
specialShipSubtitleIndex: -1
specialShipPreselectType: -1
auxShipCount: 4
auxShipsLeft: 4
auxShipDude: 141
auxShipSyst: 189
cargoType: -1
cargoQty: 0
pickupMode: -1
dropoffMode: -1
cargoLoaded: no
scanMask: 0000
compGovt: 128
compReward: 25
datePostIncrement: 0
pay: 0

Mission bits currently set:
b1
b2
b5
b100
b101
b102
b103
b105
b106
b107
b108
b117
b118
b119
b131

Escorts:
Helian (143) - captured
Helian (143) - captured
Helian (143) - captured
Helian (143) - captured
Helian (143) - captured

Items currently owned:
2 External Fuel Tank (153)
1 Density Scanner (155)
1 IFF Decoder (156)
1 Sensor Upgrade (160)
1 Swivel Phase Cannon (163)
2 Phase Turret (164)
1 SAD launcher (166)
20 SAD module (167)
2 Fuel Scoop (168)
1 Auto-Refueller (169)
1 DR Launcher (177)
20 D. Rocket (178)
1 RCS Upgrade (191)

Stellars currently dominated:
none

Stellars currently destroyed:
none

Active ranks:
none

Active disasters:
A recession (140) on Tibidat (377) - 5 days left
A serious drought (141) on Motif (376) - 5 days left
A large quantity of skulls (142) on Kayia (350) - 0 days left
A successful raider (143) on Dirach (344) - 0 days left
A Zidagar offensive (144) on Pimre Station (358) - 9 days left
An Igadzra offensive (145) on Outpost Terapin (324) - 0 days left
An enormous food surplus (146) on Ragni (359) - 0 days left
An incredible harvest (147) on Saffera III (322) - 0 days left
A manufacturing surplus (148) on Fluor (306) - 0 days left
Industrial expansion (149) on Filider (304) - 4 days left
A massive brawl (150) on Hizdriar (276) - 5 days left
A new invention (151) on Station Pybin (264) - 5 days left
A bizarre training accident (152) on Outpost Zachit (238) - 0 days left
Decreased demand (153) on Mira (235) - 0 days left
Increased demand (154) on Blaga (234) - 0 days left
The jubilant workforce (155) on Liadon (229) - 0 days left
Constant celebration (156) on Krotun (226) - 10 days left
A Voinian attack (157) on Emalghia (194) - 0 days left
A supply shortfall (158) on Huron (170) - 0 days left
Extreme boredom (159) on Gorky (189) - 0 days left
Renegade extortion (160) on Iothe Prime (184) - 0 days left
An excessive renegade incursion (161) on Gribn (181) - 7 days left
An excessive renegade incursion (162) on Thehir (180) - 0 days left
The tourist season (163) on New Rome (158) - 2 days left
A new influx of colonists (164) on Molos (157) - 0 days left
A new outbreak of plague (165) on New Calcutta (154) - 0 days left
An efficiency drive (166) on New Tokyo (153) - 0 days left
A logistical problem (167) on Knox (148) - 6 days left
A major pollution scare (168) on Earth (128) - 0 days left
A good harvest (169) on Poch (258) - 0 days left
A strike by monks (170) on Omm (183) - 0 days left
A shortage of Munb leaves (171) on Himgro (240) - 0 days left
Toxic rainfall (172) on Giniz (364) - 0 days left
A mining accident (173) on Telnan (152) - 0 days left
A volcanic eruption (174) on Bakoom (355) - 4 days left
The discovery of a new vein of ore (175) on New Riga (134) - 0 days left
A bumper harvest (176) on First Centauri (129) - 0 days left
A Voinian offensive (177) on Outpost Alpha (136) - 7 days left
A Voinian offensive (178) on Outpost Gamma (138) - 6 days left
A Voinian offensive (179) on Outpost Theta (143) - 0 days left

Active cron events:
none

- end of log -

Just an update. I know its been a long time since I played this game, but as I recall, landing on a planet always saves the game. I just played my "broken" game for around ten minutes (doing the dreadnought mission without the cloaking device), and after landing, my game was not saved. I tried again, just loading and moving one sector away before landing again. No dice.

Now I remember why I stopped playing. sigh

I should also have mentioned that this is the Windows version of EV: Nova, and I am playing the Override plugin.

Well, techinically Override isn't a plug-in, but rather a data file replacement.

I can't quite figure out what's wrong from your pilot log alone...one question I can think of though -- did you start your pilot after you installed the Override conversion, or before?

I started the pilot from scratch after overwriting the EVN data files. Everything was working perfectly up to this point.

I managed to find some other people with exactly the same problem. It seems David Dunham was looking into it, but I don't know if it was ever resolved. Does anyone know of a workaround to this particular problem? It seems at this stage that selling my ship and never taking that mission again (basically, avoid the cloaking device) is the only thing that is going to help. Unfortunately, I just bought this ship, and I don't really want the UE to be p*ssed at me. :mad:

Here are the other threads...

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/forums/index.php...1&st;=&p;=&#