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[GunChleoc <fios@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

After a game has been started, using the indexes is good, because it's more efficient. During game startup, those indexes are automatically generated from names. Configuration looks like this:

    tribes:new_militarysite_type {
       name = "atlanteans_guardhall",
       descname = pgettext("atlanteans_building", "Guardhall"),

       ....
    }

This is loaded before the savegame is loaded.

So, the configurations doesn't know anything about indexes at all. Configuring it like this instead:


    tribes:new_militarysite_type {
       id = 42,
       descname = pgettext("atlanteans_building", "Guardhall"),

       ....
    }

Would not be manageable for humans.

So, whenever we add a new building type, or change the order in which we load them, using indexes during saveloading will break.

@bunnybot merge

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