Ok, I think that I fixed part of the problems with merc availability for older savegames.

The game now takes the array gConditionsForMercAvailability from the savegame and uses this to re-populate the list of mercs for the M.E.R.C website (gubMercArray). Mercs that were unlocked (flag StartMercsAvailable == TRUE) stay unlocked.
If you happen to have a savegame where this flag was never set correctly for any of the mercs and you want to be able to recruit them there is a workaround available. If you set MERC_WEBSITE_ALL_MERCS_AVAILABLE = TRUE in Ja2_Options.ini all mercs are unlocked. This was not possible in the past but now it is.

There is one drawback with this fix. It's not possible to add or change M.E.R.C mercs mid game. Well, actually not much difference from the past (as we have learned).
The array from the savegame always takes precedence. If someone wants to improve the new function please do so.

The new function is located here:

Laptop\mercs.cpp
void RevaluateMercArray()

It's not in the current trunk and I wonder if it should be tested a little more. Flugente, could you please test it with your broken savegame? If you like the fix you can commit it to SVN later. Of course anybody else is welcome to test it too.

Here is the patch file:
*removed*
Bug is fixed in revision 6278.

Btw. I was able to fix Bugglers test savegame with the new code. It was started with MERC_WEBSITE_ALL_MERCS_AVAILABLE = TRUE and somehow had a merc counter of 43. The list and counter were fixed by the new function which left 41 mercs available like it is supposed to be. So I'm quite please with the result.

[Updated on: Sat, 10 August 2013 12:24] by Moderator

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