No, I saw that, but by default it should put the DAT into the Data directory. A good install package doesn't have the program install itself to crash.

I also thought that that message ment that if you upgraded you'd have to copy the DAT, not if you did a full uninstall and reinstall.

See tanka, that'll teach you to think you are smarter than me.

There is a bug with the Initiative / Reaction via bioware or cyberware ie Wired reflexes . Will fix later tonight.

Yeah, I noticed that last night. I had Boosted Reflexes 3 (cyber) and Synaptic Accelerator 2 (bio) and neither of them showed up in the attributes page.

Bug Report: When I buy a retractable cyber spur, it no longer gets added to the gear list. If I try to manually add it from the gear list, then I get a message that I have to do it in cyber.

Got a strange problem:
I installed the tool under XP Pro, in admin mode, and got no trouble. Then I tried to open .sr3 files, and got a message about the read/write properties of the files. I checked, and my .sr3 files were writable. I tried to create a new character, it worked.
Do you have an idea of what's happening ?

I've noticed a few times that after I add a datajack, it disappears from the character. The essence is recalculated, but the money is not. I'm going to try and see if it has anything to do with the placement of the datajack, but it doesn't seem to.

-- Dash --

Two issues:
First, when working with a new character and increasing the RW of a language skill, the points showing how many skill points used does not increase.

The second issue is custom LAN skills do not generate an appropriate RW version of the skill.

My hero.

Best chargen I've ever seen, chummer!

Thanks for your time.
I'll test as soon as I am at home (here in France it's morning, and so I'm at work ).

Another issue, or rather a question for now: how QCK/STR are computed when implanting cyberlimbs ? I just try to create a NEW character, and only added cyberlimbs, and saw nothing taken into account in the Attributes part (limbs have base STR and QCK of 4 IIRC for human characters).
I tried both in 'legal' and 'rules off' modes.

About my write protection issue: I tried on a Win98 OS PC, and had the same problem.
I also had the same problem with a .sr3 file a friend sent to me.
I could workaround the problem by copying the content of the file in Wordpad into a new file.

In fact, I think I describe iunaccurately at first.
With my XP Pro PC, I installed and used the prog with the same account. No trouble with the install part. Then, when I want to load a character, here is the message I get:

Permission problem: check write protect

Now if I double-click on a .sr3 file, NSRCG opens and I get the following message:

NSRCG filename <CR> and filename must exist

The workaround I mentioned for Windows 98 doesn't seem to work with this PC.
At work, I have a XP Pro PC also, but only with a user account (with admin rights, though), and I have no such problem.

Any idea?

How do you get NSRCG to make an xml file of your character?

Hey, I was playing around with it last night, building an NPC Deckmeister. The initial creation went ok, finalized and printed well. However, when I awarded karma for use in upgrading the attributes and skills it became confused. Once karma was set, on the Karma Page, it gave proper values for the karma pool and available Good Karma. Going to the Attribute page and increasing the attributes tracked ok in the bar in the top right corner for karma spent, but was not reflected on the Karma page. Using the Save button did save the changes, however, the character was treated as no longer being finalized even though the Existing Character Flag was displayed. Using the Finalize button, dropped the Karma Pool back to 1 and dropped the karma available to 0 without changing the amount shown in the window next to the set button.
Pressing the set button again caused the spent value to reflect what had been spent earlier on the attributes and reset the KP to the appropriate value. Without changing anything further on the karma page, I went back to the Attributes page and the values there were the ones that I had raised them to. The karma bar on top though was showing the full amount of the original karma that was set, not the available karma amount. It also did not indicate that any karma had been spent. Going to the Skills page, I was able to increase skill ratings using the previously expended karma. Jumping back to the karma page, the spent karma on the skills was again not reflected as having been spent. Finalizing the character again results in the changes in the skills and attributes being saved, the KP again resetting to 1, and the available karma and spent values resetting to 0 with no change to the value in the set window.

Using the Save button, does not allow the character to be printed even though it shows as an existing character. The Finalize button use allows the character to be printed, but with incorrect KP and Good Karma values.

Since I screwed up and did not save a separate copy of the original sr3 file for the character for each of these attempts I'll redo the character and save it in steps if you would like.

On a slightly related note are we covering the SR Tracker here as well, or do we need another thread started to support it?

I keep getting "error code 76: path not found" when I try to print. Can anyone help me?

I get the problem with stats resetting to 1 from time to time as well. There doesn't seem to be any trend in what type of character it does it to either. I've had it happen to Shamans, Riggers, and Sammies.

I'm not sure which place to post this, so I'm going to post it on both forums.

mcmackie, I know you already do so much, so it's really in poor taste for me to ask you to do more, but do you think it is possible for you to make a section on you website where people can upload XSL files for the NSRCG program, so that we can see what every one has done? I have recently stolen from MK and MR, and put together my own version of the XSL, but In short, I would like to be able to steal from more people.

I think it would help us to refine our own designs to see as many examples as possible.

If you don't have the time to do this, but would like it done, I would be willing to put the PHP time into making something for you.
-Mike
bombadil<at>oldforest.net

(please start SRtracker agian soon!!! great tool - just wish more of it worked )



-Mike R.

Okay, version 3.64 is now posted. Let me know what you think and notify me of any bugs...

WOOOOHOOOO!!!

This has been the bane of your program, the single flaw that always made me frown. You RULE!

Just download the latest install package. Make sure you get the full install one so all the files will be there.

Got it! Thanks!

Hoi, mcmackie! When are you going to have the stuff from Sprawl Survival Guide put in, chummer? I know you've added the lifestyle point system, but what about the rest? See ya later!

Yeah, I'll do it. It seems that I need to add the new items, and the DIY fake IDs... I think that work a similar way to how the Permit item was done...

Mcmackie,
I have been using your program for years and it is the benchmark that I compare all other Character Generators to. Thanks for the awesome prgram.

Found a bug with spell points on Path of the Magician Physical Adepts. If you have more than twenty-five (maybe less too, I dunno) and you jump back to other things, when you get back to spells it resets to twenty-five. I have no idea what the exact problem is...but oddly enough if you uncheck the Path of the Magician box and recheck it, it fixes it. So...simple fix, but just thought I'd inform you. Still love the program.

Hmm.. just tried installing the latest version on two different WinXP computers.. no problems with the install, but when I try to run the program, it launches and immediately fires a run-time error dialog. The message is:

mcmackie: I don't think you're program is calcualting matrix initiative and reaction correctly. On the decker info tab, I have a reaction = intelligence and initiative = 2. From this I gather that I'm automatically assumed to be running a pure DNI interface.

However, I'm not getting the response increase from the deck I purchased. I purchased a CMT Avatar which the table on page 167 of the Matrix says has a response increase of 1. This should give me a +2 to matrix reaction and a +1 to matrix initiative, but I don't see that reflected in the decker info tab (or on the print out).

Also, is there any way to mark what reality filter is used?

Ok this know problem but one i can't fix.

It's the XP problem. I can't fix it cos simpley i can't get to safe mode.

at the screen where Del- setup, F8- boot menu. where i press F8, get to the boot menu and i get. the options to boot from , floopy, cd, harddrive and network. No safe mode.

I've been told im meant to press f8 after this point, but my pc goes straight to windows.

Help anyone?

Got it, did a google search, all good.