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I was making my own map, and this showed up when I clicked "Free Game", lua error : File:------------------(something)------expected near's' . This error is usually caused by modding. The syntax of some game resources is not correct.
Is my cities too near to each other?
Or else? I'm new in modding 
Is this the original error message?
If you want some helpful feedback, please give us full information (e.g. full error message, map.lua,…)
@natahn This error message is usually caused by errors in your mod.lua. The error message displays the exact line and symbol(s) which are placed wrongly or missing.
These messages have nothing to do with city placement but only with the coding of your files. The line "expected at" in your error message usually points out a missing comma or other missing symbols in the lua code.
Like Atomic Dad said, it would be nice to have the full error message in order to give you further advice.
Oh, this error is caused of the ' (single quote) in People's. At this point you close the description's text. To fix this error change the outer single quote to double quotes and it all should works fine.
description = _("Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
Hand placed cities.
This is my first T:F map and I hope u like it."),To avoid such an error in future, don't mix single and double quotes
Ah! Thanks a lot! I thought the problem is at the "Author" section though, anyway thanks for your help 
Why did you expects the error at author?
May I explain the errormessage given by TpF in short?
File:maps/HKSAR(L)/map.lua
Here we get the file which is erroneous.
maps/HKSAR(L)/map.lua:63:')' expected near's'
Here we get a „detailed“ information about the line – 63, the number after : – where the error is detected. The error message itself gives us a hint, what could be wrong. There is expected a closing bracket ')'. Where the bracket is expected is given at the end of the error message near's'. So we have to find the right character. If you are new in coding/programming in general, it is hard to find which s – there are three occurrences in line 63 – is the „bad“ one. Otherwise you see this error immediately and fix it 
You can try to change the range = {xxx, yyy }, datas, to lower the height difference.
Have you placed the towns yourself? If yes, try to change these as well.
Normally the problem here is, that you have too tight passes on the map or too high mountains, where the game can't find routes for the roads.
You can try to change the range = {xxx, yyy }, datas, to lower the height difference.
But that will make some areas being flooded though.
Zitat von denedberkyHave you placed the towns yourself? If yes, try to change these as well.
So I should reduce the number of them? Or else?
Btw is there any ways to change the map before putting it in game? I mean smoothing terrain, building roads.....etc.
