Handle some errors more gracefully

[zoot]

At various points in the codebase, relatively minor errors in scripts and data files can cascade into quite spectacular crashes. For instance, misspelling a component name by a single letter in the special/player.xml template causes the game to undergo an all-out segmentation fault. For moddability and general robustness, it would IMO be nice to try and clean up some of these error cases and deal with them in a slightly less dramatic way.

I'll create a ticket for every such crash I identify and post a link to it in this thread.

Edited February 10, 2013 by zoot

[zoot]

Ticket #1836: Misspelling a component name in the special/player.xml template causes segmentation fault

[quantumstate]

That sounds like a good idea . Xml validation errors could do with large improvements generally, even when they don't cause a crash.

[historic_bruno]

Good, people ignoring them is why they never get fixed