I got so scared after looking at the huge amount of work involved with actually implementing custom bases that weren't empty, boring shells that I built my mod in NY, NY

Seriously though... the thing to go read, in order to understand what's going on, is mbases.ini... it's the enormously-complicated document that covers the contents of every base in the game. I wish to god that DA hadn't thrown it all into one huge and messy textfile, but that's what they did

well...I tried having a look at the mbases.ini file from both my mod's folder and from vanilla freelancer, and after deciphering everything, copy-and-pasted the correct info from vanilla mbases.ini to the mbases.ini for my mod (the part of the info that refers to the .thn files). I also went back and fixed a typo in the .ini files for the rooms on the base I'm trying to set-up. Now instead of getting a CTD when I try to land on the base, I get a blanck screen without any of the normal base icons in the navigation bar, and the launch icon is in the upper-right corner of the screen, nearly hidden behind the info icons. So..once again, if any one knows what might be wrong and how to fix it, let me know. Thanks.

black screen sounds like a wrong or noteisting room assotiation in the base's ini file.

try the following link, it should explain a lot of things about bases and rooms:
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Infinity TC Mod Leading Developer


Edited by - LordFjord on 11/12/2004 3:25:58 AM

I took a look at the link that was supplied, and I'm sure I'll find it useful for other things, but it did not have much on the difficulty Im facing. I've been all through my files and can't seem to find the problem. I've also taken a peak in some files from other mods, but I am unable to find the problem. As I said before, I've done as others have suggested and simply copy-and-pasted or copy-and-renamed the files. If anyone wants a look at what I've got, let me know and I'll send them the proper files.