Beta 3.11.11 Bug Reports

News 6/23/99
I need to get "YOUR" (MBBS players) opinion on a subject. Currently in the games that John P. is coding, there are flags that limit certain events from occuring more than once per day. These things are: Jettisoning Colos to lower alignment, Cussing at Grimy to lower alignment, hacking a corp p-word to lower alignment, and getting taxed will only happen once per day. These flags were not in the HVSTW. Just how important is it to MBBS players to have these flags removed from the MBBS mode games? Please send your thoughts on this to John Pritchett, and copy to me, as I would also like to know. Thanks!

News 6/21/99
Bug - Tow beam breaks when porting. This may or may not be a bug for the door game but in HVSTW when you are towing a ship, manned or unmanned, the tow does not break if you port, eather to buy fuel, or to port at SD, or any fed space sector, as long as the tow was initiated outside of fed space. Requested John P correct this in MBBS mode games.

News 6/20/99
Happy Father's Day!

Eleqtrizi'T discovered a major difference in how turns are dealt with after a player has been killed. In Classic/Gold MBBS the player returns to the game with whatever turns he had when he was killed. In HVSTW, a player's turns are reset to 0, and regenerate after midnight, and keep regenerating until he enters the game.

I went "Red" in game "B" today. While running sst, (Twh 9.0 script) I came accross this bug... msg "You do not own any other ships!" I think I may have found the trigger for it. Since my exp is not high enough to sst full 250 holds, I have to periodically stop the script, mannually sell, upgrade the port, and steal a larger amount of product to fit my exp level. When I restart my sst script, that is when the bug pops up, telling me I don't have another ship to transport into.
On a side note: In HVSTW, with 1k-3.2k exp I was able without too many busts to steal at a rate of exp/15. With this classic/MBBS mode I had to stay nearer to exp/20 to lessen the bust rate.

News 6/18/99
Over-heating problem solved, Eleq slowed the clock speed of his CPU back to normal :)

News 6/17/99
1. Back up again, and open to all, no need to e-mail for access. Play the game long and hard... but do remember, Please do run game cap files at all times! As soon as we get this game debugged, we can get back to serious playing.
2. Bugs found and reported - ports do not always display when entering a sector. You sometimes must redisplay to see the port. I may have crashed the server today :( details reported to Eleq & John P.

News 6/16/99
It's banged, it's closed, it's open... now it's down :( Eleqtrizi't had to take the server down this evening because of an over-heated CPU. Even though I have nothing to do with it, still gonna appologize for the yo-yo effect.

News 6/15/99
Sorry for any confusion.. asked for "D" game, got "B" game :)
I was able to get in and do a little editing tonight, just waiting for Eleq to get home from work to open it :) There is only so much one can do remote. Game settings are as follows:

Classic/MBBS (Gold disabled)

Turns - 5k
Start - MC, 20 holds,100 figs, 25k creds
Days to Delete - 90
Max Players - 500
Sectors - 3k
Ports - 1200
Planets - 600
Ferrengi - Classic Ferrengal, 20% regen
Colos - 48k per day
Fed Space - 5
Planets per sector - 5
Corp size - 5
Course length - 30
Photons - No
SD - 2046
Ferrengal - 1288
0 ports - 1091, 1865
All other settings - Default
(Told ya I was gonna put up a stock game) ;)

The game is closed, and you must e-mail Eleqtrizi'T for access. I am allowing 2 accounts per player, so that you may set-up controlled "Battles" between red/blue, blue/blue, red/red... Please do run game cap files at all times so that we have something to send to John to debug when you do find a bug... or something that is not what you would normally see in the HVS MBBS game. Please do try to be as detailed as possible when describing what you beleive to be a bug. Send cap files to John P (address at top of page). Be conciderate... delete all unneccessary information from the cap file before sending. I am sure John does not need to look through hours of play to find one bug.

"Time to kick the tires and light the fires!

News 6/14/99
Game "D" has been banged, but still closed. Eleqtrizi't is experiencing hardware problems... CPU is overheating. Will open the game as soon as problems are solved. Bare with me, just put this page up quickly after work today. Will follow-up tomorrow with outlines for beta testers.