How to Save a Broken Career (automission start failed, mission save error, statsubmitstatfailed)

[PoppaCapnurass]

Hi all ....

 

A few weeks back late one night my career pilot was KIA and while closing the game after the death I saved him as dead. He is now listed as Pilot Killed and I really want to get him resurrected as I had spent months on the career.

 

I have tried the date change (prior to and after) as per above however it has had no effect.

 

Can someone advise on what else I should be looking for?

 

Thanks. @Talon_

[-=HUN=-Zair]

Thx, it worked 100%!!!!!!

[MAGNUM_PT]

Had the same issue on 2 campaigns. This solved the problem for me. Both instances of this problem happened after the latest update (3.005).

[Taxman]

I also had the same issue with 2 campaigns on the BOK map.  Saved the campaigns and I am now able continue.

[Taxman]

20 hours ago, Taxman said:

I also had the same issue with 2 campaigns on the BOK map.  Saved the campaigns and I am now able continue.

Now have a new issue.  When I go into my career's none will work, in order to get out of the career screen I must use the Task Manager to end the program.  I will be able to look at this later this evening.

[Raptorattacker]

32 minutes ago, Taxman said:

When I go into my career's none will work, in order to get out of the career screen I must use the Task Manager to end the program.

That's exactly what happened to me. The Task Manager is hard work as well because the PC doesn't like it when the game is in Fullscreen Mode as well!! I abandoned that mission and only have one running now and, so far... fingers crossed!! I'll just carry on with this one and see what happens...

[AILD90]

Oh man hope the developer will  fix this, its really bad and frustrating. Will not buy the Bodenplatte because of this sorry ?

[Markgraf]

Thanks a lot for your post, fix and help! Now my carrer continues!

It´s great!

 

Best wishes

[Laddie]

Thank you so much, you have saved my career which I was about 40% into the realistic version before the bug showed up. I tried what you suggested as well, seeing if I could skip the stuck mission by assigning it to another pilot but it just crashed to the main screen. i was stuck on the last mission I flew and couldn't get past it, I thought all was lost, all that toil and trouble, the days and days of recording and editing all for nothing. But I was put onto your solution, followed your steps and now I have just pushed the career 2 days forward  Brilliant, just BRILLIANT !! Thank you again and again ??

[Yardstick]

Thanks for this - saved my 420+ victory Stalingrad campaign!  Back to Pitomnik I go!

[gemanuel1]

With this tool, is it possible to work around a completed career? Ive just completed a career on Stalingrad that I've played since Moscow. I can't prolong to Kuban because of a bug of some sort. I get a grey blank screen when i try to prolong and i really want to keep this career going in battle of Kuban. I tried this tool to set the date back to before the last day of the unit at Stalingrad. That worked fine but the campaign is still shown as completed and is just still moving to 1943.02.02... Is there a way to delete "battle completed" and try to get back a few days before the last day. I want to try to transfer to another unit and prolong from that unit whereas i am in jg 51 with collector plane and i dont know why but i think that might have something to do with it:S...

 

[ShugNinx]

@Talon_ Thanks for saving another career mate ! Your trick did just fine.

 

It's a real shame this bug is still going on nearly a year after 3.0 release, and that support is still unable to help.

Edited February 26, 2019 by ShugNinx

[XQ_Lothar29]

Hello everyone, yesterday I was the victim of the mistake of almost everyone here.

I've followed in the footsteps of  1/JSpan_Guerrero 

 

-and I've managed to keep my pilot alive, but, I keep all my medals, I keep my rank, but I can't fly any mission, because it's as if I already knew everything that's been gone day after day, that is, when the day of my death comes , even if I'm still alive, and i'm in "service" I'm dead for the squadron and I'm not assigned any flights.

 

please tell me that I am doing something wrong and that you have a solution. save the initial cp.db file so that you had no problems and could work with it as many times as you want

 

?

 

 

[jetsimace]

Many thanks but unfortunately this workaround didn't work well for me.
My pilot's Bodenplatte career got corrupted Oct 16. After I had patched the date to Oct 17, I  was able to proceed to Oct 17 and then (via "next day") had been warped to Dec 18 (Battle of the Bulge timeframe) to a different location with different planes (Bf 109 K). Also the following 3-4 days my pilot hadn't been asigned to any mission. I was able to reproduce this behaviour.

[1/JSpan_Wind75]

On 11/26/2019 at 5:38 PM, jetsimace said:

Many thanks but unfortunately this workaround didn't work well for me.
My pilot's Bodenplatte career got corrupted Oct 16. After I had patched the date to Oct 17, I  was able to proceed to Oct 17 and then (via "next day") had been warped to Dec 18 (Battle of the Bulge timeframe) to a different location with different planes (Bf 109 K). Also the following 3-4 days my pilot hadn't been asigned to any mission. I was able to reproduce this behaviour.

 

Hi jetsimace

 

As I have commented to III/JG52_Lothar29, these changes can no longer be made in the records of the databases no longer works, since those changes were made in the databases of servers owned by IL-2

 

I'm sorry

[XQ_Lothar29]

We see, i have discovered how to live the Pilot

The mode is as follows, with the program that we have downloaded, and following the instructions of @1/JSpan_Guerrero of this link.

 

the only important thing are the following two things.

 

The first is to throw back in time, if they killed you on the 15th, in the program put that you start on the 9th.

and the second is the most important:

 

-Watch the video that I created for you

 

Spoiler

 

 

 @jetsimace Suscribe to my Channel if it works for you. hehehehe ?

sorry for my English

 

Salute!!!

[1/JSpan_Wind75]

10 hours ago, III/JG52_Lothar29 said:

We see, i have discovered how to live the Pilot

The mode is as follows, with the program that we have downloaded, and following the instructions of @1/JSpan_Guerrero of this link.

 

the only important thing are the following two things.

 

The first is to throw back in time, if they killed you on the 15th, in the program put that you start on the 9th.

and the second is the most important:

 

-Watch the video that I created for you

 

  Hide contents

 

 

 @jetsimace Suscribe to my Channel if it works for you. hehehehe ?

sorry for my English

 

Salute!!!

 

Very good! Then it works!
I'll keep it in mind.

 

Thank you very much for the video, and as for English I see that we study in the same academy ... ?

[XQ_Lothar29]

3 hours ago, 1/JSpan_Guerrero said:

 

Very good! Then it works!
I'll keep it in mind.

 

Thank you very much for the video, and as for English I see that we study in the same academy ... ?

??

[jetsimace]

Thanks for your hints guys!
Unfortunately it didn't work for me: I had a career I couldn't load any more (had to terminate il2.exe when trying to load this specific career), but my pilot was still alive (state=0).
"CurrentDate" of my pilot's career is 1944.10.16 while this pilot's "stateDate" is 1944.10.15. When setting both values to 1944.10.14 I am able to load the career and after proceeeding from 1944.10.14 to 1944.10.15 two new missions (in addition to the ones I had already flewn on 1944.10.15) have been created automatically - one in the morning and one in the afternoon. I flew both missions but when proceeding to the next day (1944.10.16) I got warped to Dec 16 (Battle of the Bulge while my squadron was moved to another airfield) and from then on I have not been able to proceed to next day with an error message/pop up window "error proceeding to next day".

Also sometimes I had issues unpausing the mission at start as the "P" key has not been recognized properly. "Esc" worked fine in IL2 but my PC had somehow frozen (I couldn't switch to any other application and/or window), so I hat to reboot using Task Manager.

Edited December 6, 2019 by jetsimace

[Reggie_Mental]

I accidentally killed off a career pilot because I didn't select Restart Mission, but Exit instead. I was distracted by something falling off a bookshelf and flew into a tree. 

 

Is there any way to get that career/pilot back?

 

RSVP

[dburne]

Ohh I so been there done that...

No way that I am aware of.

 

[40plus]

RIP

[Jaws2002]

You'll need a DMC DeLorean and some powerful flux capacitors.

[RhumbaAzul]

46 minutes ago, Reggie_Mental said:

 I was distracted by something falling off a bookshelf and flew into a tree. 

 

 

 

 

And people say that words can't hurt you, if only they knew how dangerous flying actually is.

[Hartigan]

One suggestion to Devs. If they could add Restart mission, Restart later (fly failed mission again later) or Exit and let your pilot be captured , wounded or dead . Or just fail mission and progress to next one. With my limited time it would be very nice compromise to restart later

Edited January 21, 2020 by Hartigan

[GiftZahnsSteigern]

 

 

 

[dburne]

58 minutes ago, Hartigan said:

One suggestion to Devs. If they could add Restart mission, Restart later (fly failed mission again later) or Exit and let your pilot be captured , wounded or dead . Or just fail mission and progress to next one. With my limited time it would be very nice compromise to restart later

 

You can restart mission as long as not playing Iron Man Mode.

After clicking Restart Mission, you can then when at the mission start menu click on exit and you will have it for when you come back to the Career.

Key is to not accidently click on Finish first. Once that is done, it is over.

 

Edited January 21, 2020 by dburne

[Hartigan]

But can I restart mission later? I think now I have to choose to restart immediately or just finish. I like realism yes, but this is something id like to skip somehow

[dburne]

5 minutes ago, Hartigan said:

But can I restart mission later? I think now I have to choose to restart immediately or just finish. I like realism yes, but this is something id like to skip somehow

 

If you die, or think you have,  click on Restart Mission. Do NOT click on Finish.

After it drops you back to the mission start,  press the Escape key and click on Abort Mission.

You can then exit your Career and the game, and when you come back in game and continue on the Career, you will be flying that same mission you aborted.

Edited January 22, 2020 by dburne

[Hartigan]

Thanks dburne, That make sense . I must try it next time? 

[Georgio]

Did this over Christmas to my Tempest career pilot, I was 4 months in and had just got bombs. Flying to the target I was in formation at about 3500' and in x4 time when an AAA shot hit and killed my pilot. I was so stunned I just sat there dumbfounded for a few seconds then accidently clicked finish instead of restart. Not a happy bunny.

[Puarma]

Good to know how this works. I always assumed clicking finish instead of restart might bury the pilot but wasn't sure of that. It would be good to have some kind of confirmation dialog at that point. 

[danielprates]

On 1/21/2020 at 6:33 PM, Reggie_Mental said:

I was distracted by something falling off a bookshelf

 

Ah. "The fantastic flying books of Mr. Morris Lessmore". They will do that.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantastic_Flying_Books_of_Mr._Morris_Lessmore

[ITAF_Gerry_Lil_Rocket]

hello, if I could add a small and very basic suggestion to this very useful topic .....when you have a very long career (like me through BOM,BOS and BOK after about 300 hours of combat mission) You won't definitely loose your progress as happen to me after an update of windows and following problem on IL-2 launch. You just have to back up your cp file every few days of flying ( it could be better with a script instruction that do this automatically for you) .

in an unfortunate case of game reinstallation all you have to do is just  to copy your backupped cp file instead of the original blank cp file....this worked for me and I only lost my commanding officer spec but it isn't a big issue, isn't it?

I did'nt yet verify if this works in case of pilot died or captured too...

Hope this helps

good flights

[1/JSpan_Wind75]

Hi gerriaz,

 

When you lose your life or are captured after hundreds of missions it is very frustrating to have to start again from scratch. Yes I also keep a backup copy of the CAREER folder. Although if there have been several updates to the IL-2 it may not work well if they have touched the code of the career part of the pilot.

[Yero]

Hola a todos.

Además de las modificaciones aportadas en este hilo, solo añadir que en mi caso para la "reactivación de una carrera" hube de modificar también en el mismo fichero "cp.db" en la tabla "pilot" la fecha y estado del piloto muerto.

Para localizar la fila (de las muchas que puede haber) y que hay que modificar, ordena por "Description" (solo los activos tienen datos en esa casilla) y busca el nombre de tu piloto.

Busca las columnas "stateDate" y "status" y modifícalas a la fecha anterior y a "0" tal y como se debería haber hecho también en la tabla "career" y que se ha comentado antes.

Un saludo.

 

Hi, everybody.

In addition to the changes made in this thread, I would like to add that in my case for the "reactivation of a career" I had to modify also in the same file "cp.db" in the table "pilot" the date and status of the dead driver.

To locate the row (of the many that can exist) that needs to be modified, order by "Description" (only the active ones have data in that box) and look for the name of your driver.

Look for the columns "stateDate" and "status" and modify them to the previous date and to "0" as it should have been done also in the table "career" and that has been commented before.

Greetings.

 

 

Edited April 18, 2020 by LukeFF

[1/JSpan_Wind75]

Yero, thank you very much for your contribution.

 

The truth is that it is better not to fly like Iron Man ... and seeing how difficult it is to recover a pilot, you have to think very carefully before hitting the "end mission" button without first checking if at the end of the mission you were alive and within your territory, or border (Captured) if you have had to jump or land with your belly on the ground. I look at it two or three times on the tour screen, and only if I am very sure do I finish the mission. If I am not sure if I fell near the border, I will restart it.

Since I have four campaigns at the same time, when I have to restart a mission, I fly in a different campaign and that mission failed and restarted I do not repeat it a second time. I leave it for another day.

 

Greetings to all

[I./JG52_Woutwocampe]

Wow, I found this topic and it saved my Dora career!

 

Thank you so much, it should be stickied if it isnt.

[=WoVi=cercataa]

On 4/8/2018 at 8:15 PM, =gRiJ=Roman- said:

I looked at my other pilot and I changed STATE to 0 in both tabs, CAREER and PILOT. It worked. The pilot was MIA but made it to the roster the following day! 

 

It worked, thanks.

 

But it's very sad we have to do this when the game meshs it up, and you don't wanna replay a long mission you consider yo did correctly

 

I wonder what % of users will be able to do this

[oc2209]

On 3/11/2020 at 3:38 AM, ITAF_Gerry_Lil_Rocket said:

hello, if I could add a small and very basic suggestion to this very useful topic .....when you have a very long career (like me through BOM,BOS and BOK after about 300 hours of combat mission) You won't definitely loose your progress as happen to me after an update of windows and following problem on IL-2 launch. You just have to back up your cp file every few days of flying ( it could be better with a script instruction that do this automatically for you) .

in an unfortunate case of game reinstallation all you have to do is just  to copy your backupped cp file instead of the original blank cp file....this worked for me and I only lost my commanding officer spec but it isn't a big issue, isn't it?

I did'nt yet verify if this works in case of pilot died or captured too...

Hope this helps

good flights

 

I had a strange incident I'll recount here.

 

I had a career I'd carried over from Moscow, into Stalingrad (with the intention of going on to Kuban and Bodenplatte). Towards the end of Stalingrad, I had the option of ending the career and moving on to Kuban, but I decided to transfer to the Ring of Death just for... well, 'fun' might not apply in that instance, but you get my point. I assumed the missions would be endless bomber and ground attack plane intercepts (which I like), but instead it was missions I decidedly do not like. I figured rather than endure the waiting of sending my wingmen on every mission until the campaign ended, I'd just quit, delete the old career file, and copy my backup (which was made the same day) into the proper Sturmovik folder.

 

I did so, and it caused errors on every career I had. Eventually, after trying various ineffectual fixes, I did the database editing bit and moved the day forward. This worked for a few days, until the error popped up again, and I bypassed it once again. Then I moved on to Kuban, and now everything seems fine.

 

So on one hand, I'm disappointed that simply backing up my career file wasn't as useful and straightforward as it should be; but I was able to get around it anyway, thanks to this thread.