Bug: NPC Spawning Crashes Inconsistently

[Lazrius]

When any NPC is forcibly spawned, there is a small chance that the game crashes due to various issues in common.dll. The cause is unknown, and while the symtoms can be remedied it tends to only lead to a crash somewhere else. The root cause must be found, or at least have the symptoms patched to the point where there is no crashes anymore.

[Lazrius]

Related spew and crash log

E:\FL\Scratch\Source\Common\Ini.cpp(294) : *** ERROR: Invalid bool value 80 in .ini file ../DATA/MISSIONS/pilots_population.ini
E:\FL\Scratch\Source\Common\Archetype.cpp(60) : *** ERROR: ArchDB::Get(2151746432) failed
Chaos Mod Process with PID 20208 has terminated unexpectedly at 2024-03-03-16:47:13. Fetching crash event from Application logs...
Faulting application name: Freelancer.exe, version: 1.0.1223.11, time stamp: 0x3e401b79
Faulting module name: Common.dll, version: 1.0.1254.11, time stamp: 0x3ecbb141
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0008e640
Faulting process ID: 0x4ef0
Faulting application start time: 0x01da6d8a45a2113c
Faulting application path: C:\Users\Ruper\AppData\Local\Freelancer Chaos Edition\EXE\Freelancer.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Users\Ruper\AppData\Local\Freelancer Chaos Edition\EXE\Common.dll
Report ID: d9702179-ae28-4769-b579-6dd489fa3a78
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
For debugging, please reference the Fault offset and Faulting module name against https://wiki.the-starport.net/wiki/fl-binaries/crash-offsets
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