Crash/Freeze when selecting a ship - Read for Fix!
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Ok, if you're getting a crash or a lockup when selecting a ship to build, the reason is because there isn't a Range value for a ship. Assuming that your other files updated all right, the ShipHawk file would not have been updated, so this is the most likely culprit. The easiest way to fix this is to copy the missing line from the survey ship definition, which is in the shippak1.ship file. I'm not sure how sensitive our parsing code is, so make sure that you copy the line exactly as it appears in the Survey ship definition, including the spaces before the word Range.