World doesn't load?

[Tamren Shade]

Last night I was having some trouble with Starmade crashing last night around midnight, and after the last crash, when I try to load my primary single player universe, it hangs on the initializing universe part of the load screen. I started a new world, and that one loads just fine.

To be clear, I'm not upset, I still love this game, and I understand what Alpha means. Thankfully, I had everything I cared about saved in the catalog, and I don't mind starting a new world as I wanted to kick my sector size up to 5000 meters anyways

I'm not concerned about fixing that universe, but I did want to get Schine all the help I can provide in tracking down bugs.What directory are the logs stored in, What time frame of log files would you want to start documenting the bug, and how would I determine the time stamp and which universe the logs are tied to?

 

[SmilingDemon]

go to (starmadeinstallfolder)/server-database/(brokenworld) and delete the file Chatchannels.tag .. then try to access that world again to see if it is fixed.

 

[Tamren Shade]

Nice! My faction had changed to Unknown Faction, but the universe loaded. Thanks!

Although, I am curious how chatchannels.tag can mess up a universe?

 

[SmilingDemon]

the file got corrupted on a crash or game exit .. and the game than hangs on load on the next start of said file.
make sure your installation of the game isnt somewhere in /programfiles or on the desktop or in any other OS controlled place.
It seems that that may cause problems.