[Yathin]

While making a personal "Endgame" mission for TBP, I used "Gold" as a seperate wing name for some Minbari Nials. Then it started insisting that I switch Alpha to be Gold. Then it changed it so that "Gold" and "Alpha" were the same thing, making it so I can't disband or delete "Gold"! (Best as I can describe what happened, sorry if it seems confusing)(And yes, this is a "Battle of Endor" style mission, as there are appx 60-70 fighters, and 30-40 capital ships.)

Errors recieved when loading the misson in FRED

1st Error that comes up:
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/7640/errornj4.png

2nd Error that comes up:
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/4312/error2dv9.png

When selecting Alpha, it selects the whole wing:
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/2186/error3hk7.png

When selecting Gold, it selects Alpha 1. (My ship)
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/576/error4hh7.png

Error recieved when opening the misson in TBP using debug mode:

(no matter what, the mission no longer loads now)
http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/4709/error5tw8.png


I am using FRED 3.6.9, on TBP 3.4a

[Goober5000]

It would help if you attached the mission.

[karajorma]

If you go over 100 ships FRED will fail to save the mission correctly and will wipe anything after the 100th. That's almost certainly the cause of this.

[Mobius]

This kind of error usually corrupts the mission. You can get a working version by changing the format of the backup file(<mission>.bak ---> <mission>.fs2). You can also open the mission with notepad or Wordpad and manually fix it(remove all references to ships 101, 102, 103, n...).

[Yathin]

This kind of error usually corrupts the mission. You can get a working version by changing the format of the backup file(<mission>.bak ---> <mission>.fs2). You can also open the mission with notepad or Wordpad and manually fix it(remove all references to ships 101, 102, 103, n...).

I never had tried editing the mission via wordpad, only the tables... I never thought of editing it like that!

However, I just changed the number of wings to 21, and removed "Gold". The mission works fine now, and there was the error of it being 1 ship too many 

Thank you for your advice Mobius, and karajoma, I knew that would be related to the problem.. but thank you for confirming it!