SH3 Commander: "Invalid argument to date encode"

[JScones]

By re-adding the career start dates, we progressed past the first issue, which then allowed SH3 Commander to create pre-career dates, pick an image, and save the details to the ini file. Hence why the first error message has disappeared and why the values in SH3Cmdr.ini are correct. You would have noticed that the prior picture this career had would have been the same as the next highest career in the option list (in other words, it never really had it's own image, it only got one after you re-added the career start dates).

However, as I mentioned above, the Summary will still fail because other key dates are missing in the Careers.cfg and Careers_0.cfg. Most importantly, the Flotilla0*, NbPatrolsInFlotilla0*, StartYearInFlotilla0, StartMonthInFlotilla0 and StartDayInFlotilla0 values tend to also be 0 if the career start dates are 0 (seems that any "start" type value is affected). The Career Summary needs these values to build the "U-Bootwaffe Postings" block of the Summary. What this means is, unless you're happy to do some surgery, you can write off ever getting a summary from this career.

*in some instances these fields do contain correct values.

Napileo, you may like to replicate again with this career what you did between patrol 1 and 2 and see whether that re-erases the data from the files. It may help to find the cause.

Originally Posted by Nopileo

Edit: Also note the date, which is now actually before he started the patrol.

This may be my fault - I made an educated guess as to the career start date in my earlier post (ie 1 Sep. 1940) - I may have been wrong. If so, I reckon this is causing your date differences.