# No initial\_points default

**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/no-initial-points-default/140
**Category:** The Garage
**Created:** [January 25, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/no-initial-points-default/140 "2013-01-25T19:03:04Z")
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### Author: ![Leonon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@Leonon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Leonon)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/no-initial-points-default/140/1 "2013-01-25T19:03:04Z")

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initial\_points doesn’t have a default in options.txt.

EDIT: deleted the game and downloaded it, the new one has a proper default

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### Author: ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/no-initial-points-default/140/2 "2013-01-25T21:01:21Z")

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This is a shortcoming of the way options.txt is handled (and a common probelm with config files in general).

It’s easy to spit out a config file populated with defaults if it doesn’t exist, much harder to reloably insert a new default option into a modified config file without screwing up.

FYI you shouldn’t need to redownload the game, just delete options.txt and the next time you run the game it will create a default options.txt