This is a collection of basic instructions for editing your unencrypted save game file.
You can unencrypt your save file with (https://pentalex.github.io/COTL-SaveDecryptor/) written by Pentalex - Github here if you want to validate it yourself.
I suggest Notepad++ and the JSTool plugin. Once you open your file you can run do Plugins > JSTool > JSFormat to get a cleaner looking JSON.
- Before doing any of the following steps PLEASE BACKUP YOUR SAVE!
If after doing any of the updates you have a green exclamation point that you cannot get rid of due to removing what it was pointing to: i.e. changing a doctrine do the following as well:
There is a section called "Alerts" and it lists each of the possible alerts you havent seen or checked off. In our case the Doctrine alerts. Make sure the section called _alerts directly below the type you need to remove is empty like the example below, and make sure "Total" is set to 0 as well. This should remove your dangling alerts.
"Alerts": {
"Doctrine": {
"_alerts": [
],
"_singleAlerts": [],
"Total": 0