:S ... Why ... (is Game_Actor becoming nil...) - WOOHOO....solved

[da good king]

 After a week or two working on the Game_Actor class, I have come to find one great disturbing factor... As I have previously mentioned, my game is using a recruit method, where class_id and level are part of Game_Actor's setup method.

Apparently, that just isn't working...In Game_Actors I replaced this code:

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if @data[actor_id] == nil
  @data[actor_id] = Game_Actor.new(actor_id)
end
With a similar code only with Game_Actor.new(actor_id, 1 , 1). This is supposed to say if data does not exist for this actor, make a new default one. I think...
Well, anyhow, when I use the script code

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Game_Actor.new(2, 2, 15), which should create a new actor with ID: 2, Class_id: 2, and level: 15, I then refer to its level with $game_actors[2].level, and it returns 1....

It would seem no matter what I do, it's returning its data as nil...So what on earth am I supposed to do...I suppose I just don't understand how Object.new works even thought I would have thought it simple 

I have the daunting feeling I'm gonna have to start all over... *sigh*
Any ideas as to what I should do to...idk...make it so I can create a new actor with its class and level specified in its setup? 

EDIT: I tried making its @data = a new recruit with the specified arguments inside the Game_Actor class...but ofc the "Stack level is too deep"... jeeeez

[modern algebra]

Wait, so what do you mean by nil? - you're getting an error that says undefined method level for nil:NilClass

or is it just not levelling the actor?

What have you modified in Game_Actor to make it so that it does level the character, anyway?

[da good king]

 Oh, well the problem was that I wasn't reading how Game_Actors works. It has a @data array that contains all character data, but from the start contains nothing. As you refer to $game_actors[id] it then fills @data with Game_Actor.new(id) data. As such, I, for whatever ridiculous reason, assumed that by calling Game_Actor.new(id, class, level) I was adding data to Actors .....

No worries now, however. I have corrected the problem myself, as I simply replaced the add_actor method with one that inserts new Game_Actor data into $game_actors.data according to the arguments placed in get_recruit(class, level) => the new method

Sorry for the needless topic, I basically panicked when I saw weeks of work suddenly going to oblivion.

P.S. They level normally, through experience, but I want to be able to add recruits and specify their class/level in one stroke, not by some annoying method of editing them directly ($game_actors.level=), which would be encumbersome when I'm trying to add new recruits ALL the time.