kagato87

The file system (for both platforms) should be able to handle that, suggesting it is the save routine that doesn't like it. I did pop a bug report onto the forum about it. Also, that's an awful lot of puns you put in that one line there...

Issue: Certain characters in the ship name can cause a "Runtime Error" when exiting shipbuilding menu. Steps to reproduce: Build (found) a new ship and use double quotation marks in the name. Ex: DRS01 - "GIMP" When exiting build menu for that ship the game crashes. Upon reloading the game, the changes to the ship were successfully saved. Observation: Ship designs are saved with the ship name as the file name. The offending character (double quote) is an invalid character for the file name. Troubleshooting discussion: http://www.avorion.net/forum/index.php/topic,627.0.html

I encountered the exact same issue, and likewise found that dumping the galaxy and creating a new one fixed it (same settings). After poking through the logs (the last attempt did actually generated a useful line before the CTD) I think I found the problem. Ship names are saved to an XML file with the name of the ship. The crash appears to be happening when the ship is saved. Quotation marks in the ship name cause the problem for me consistently. Quotation marks are also an invalid character for file names... ;) It's also possible the quotation marks are messing up the parser involved in saving the ship, depending on how you are searching it. Suggestion: Parse out characters that would be invalid (in either supported OS) and don't allow them in ship names.