#14 XYPLANx.DAT not merged (if no RST present?)

[James Heinrich]

I'm not sure exactly why, but for an explore-map game,
where I have the RSTs and maps of several allies all
goes well and the maps are merged together, but I also
have the XYPLANx.DAT of another player, but nothing
else (no RST, no existing VPA database, etc), and that
map does not appear to be detected and/or merged into
VPA's main map. How can I get this map data merged in?

[James Heinrich]

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By copying the XYPLANx.DAT that was not being recognized
over top of the XYPLANx.DAT of one of my allies, VPA did
parse and merge the map data, so it really does appear that
the data is being ignored. I suggest that all XYPLANx.DAT files
be merged into the map, whether other data for that race is
present or not.

[James Heinrich]

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However, the non-ally XYPLANx.DAT file is only used as long
as it has the name of a race that I do have an RST for. If I
rename it back, or replace the allied XYPLANx.DAT with the
next turn's data, VPA forgets it ever knew about the planet
locations in that mapfile.