Tweaked addon not there anymore?

[JohnnyRamrod]

Figure this falls into dumb and not developer, as this seems too basic to go in that forum.

I did a little reading on addon creation etc - looked at wiki and things like that, then studied some addons.

I wanted to make a few tweaks to some existing addons first, just to ensure i understand mechanics of it. (I'm running the steam version if this makes any difference).

Anyway, made a copy of a sort of fun, but pretty unbalanced class addon (turtle class), saved the original into a different dir as a backup, and then edited the copy in the addon directory to experiment with rebalance.

The trouble is, the addon no longer shows up when i start up the game. The file has the same file name as it did before, and apart from editing a few values for the class (in notepad++) i haven't done anything else at all to the file. Am i missing something fundamental?

[grayswandir]

If it's silently failing to show up that generally means you have an error in the init.lua somewhere. Check for typos, etc.

[JohnnyRamrod]

hrmmm.. ok i'll take a look thanks. the weird thing is at this stage the ONLY thing i've done is alter some of the values - literally changed values for things like global_speed_base, inc_stats for starting values etc. i'll definitely look, but given it's only numerical values i've touched so far, no logic, and only about 10 values, i'd be surprised. Thanks though - i'll def review the few changes and ensure i've done nothing else.

[JohnnyRamrod]

OK - i've worked it out. it's actually when i altered the starting stats of one of the subraces. altering global speed was fine - altering starting stats was not... i think i'll ask in the dev section once i've played around a bit more. can't see why altering the starting stats causes it to not load (added 1 str and dropped 1 dec - seems odd that would cause an issue)