[Mustang19]

Who's the mature one here, Lobo? 

[Jeff Vader]

stop being so mean.   

I'm not mean. I'm just edgy since you refuse to listen to reason even after the third time.

but wont it overwrite the old open files like it does to retail, thus making it so i cant use him again?

No. If you play, say, Jedi Outcast and save the game, then save the game again, the new one doesn't overwrite the old one. The same goes for the FS pilots. Nothing gets overwritten unless you demand so. Which you probably won't.

Who's the mature one here, Lobo? 

What I said on the first line. If Titan doesn't listen even on the third time, it makes at least me feel frustrated when I'm trying to help but he ignores the advice. I can be as calm as a giant sloth on marijuana, when necessary. But even my patience has limits.

[Mustang19]

I can be as calm as a giant sloth on marijuana, when necessary. But even my patience has limits.

We can always use more of those in our forum political debates.

If you are surprised that this guy doesn't do what you say for the third time, then reconsider posting. Bad for your blood pressure. Your physician recommends that you avoid Titan threads.

[Jeff Vader]

A Guinness a day keeps the doctor away. But yeah, I'll concentrate my more or less helpful advice on the polite and understanding people from now on.

[Mobius]

Why do I have the feeling that you're the most childish member of this community?

Because he's the youngest.

I don't think it's a logic consequence...a young person should behave well...

A Guinness a day keeps the doctor away. But yeah, I'll concentrate my more or less helpful advice on the polite and understanding people from now on.

Here we say Mela(Apple) instead of Guinness

I can be as calm as a giant sloth on marijuana, when necessary. But even my patience has limits.

We can always use more of those in our forum political debates.

If you are surprised that this guy doesn't do what you say for the third time, then reconsider posting. Bad for your blood pressure. Your physician recommends that you avoid Titan threads.

[lightblue=color]The same principle is applied to whoever hates colored posts.[/color]

[jr2]

Only if you select it and try to play with it.    You know, you could keep you Retail pilot, if you didn't select him from FSO and upgrade him. 

[Titan]

ok... now, to get 3.6.10........ SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET



EDIT: question: why do they get corrupted anyways? isn't the pilot file still written (or something) exactly the same?

[Grizzly]

Yes, indeed, but it should be written different... something.

[colecampbell666]

The corruption is a problem that arises when mods aren't optimized for the same version of FSO (I believe). This will be fixed in a later release of FSO. Or is it 3.6.10?

[Hades]

How come I can use my old pilots from 3.6.9 in 3.6.10 without corruption but no one else can?

[colecampbell666]

Everyone can, I think, it's when you try to use .10 pilots in .9 when the problem arises.

[taylor]

Pilot files in the stable branch builds are compatible with each other (regardless of whether it's 3.6.9 or 3.6.10).   But pilots in HEAD builds are not compatible with pilots in stable builds, and vise versa (NOTE: the version number does NOT indicate whether it's a stable or HEAD build!!).  So long as you keep to using the same build type (stable or HEAD) per pilot then you shouldn't have any corruption.  That is true for stable branch builds only though, any pilot used with current HEAD builds is going to be totally incompatible with future HEAD builds (since the format will change and the upgrade path will be for stable branch pilots only).

There are some exceptions, with bugs in the pilot file code, that might mess up your loadout data but not actually corrupt your pilot.  But generally you won't have any problems so long as you don't mix build types with the same pilot.