Counted the times ... about 1 in 10.
Gord
almost made a ship try and exploit some metals
Still not perfectly fixed but one errors in something like 10 to 12 positions i did isn't so bad. (although actually harder to notice
) --Brian
Still not totally satisfactory though. Spent 15 minutes finely crafting the wording of a special action... which disappeared up it's own **** *** when I posted it back, and the editor kicked me back to the 'turns' page.
And I wasn't logged in twice; I save the 'information' page to local disk, and re-open that in a seperate window for reference.
TonyH
| QUOTE |
| and the editor kicked me back to the 'turns' page. |
Did it say user 'Invalid User Name' or 'Connection Timed Out' as it will log you out if you do 'nothing' for 20mins. So if you are typing a special for a long time that may happen.
if you click the url bar and hit enter you stay at the turns page but your order gets added to the correct position
- first time it's happened; I'm usually a bit more concise.But this was after it has simply dumped me out to the 'turns' screen on the first error. And, subsequent entries simply 'lost' the entered text until it fell under the editors text size limit. If it could warn without loosing the text, that would be much friendlier.
TonyH
Gord
| QUOTE (gordon @ Nov 1 2005, 06:06 AM) |
| which is how my sa ended up in hyperspace I think. |
I can confirm that the SA has been located - it seems to be in regular orbit around position 15250, and shows up every 3-5 days.
I'd still like to know more about the 'monster island' order that's in the same set though..
TonyH
If you log into the Phoenix part of the online editor... play wiith stuff, look at the info page, then...
Switch to Monster Island and check the info page (which doesn't do anything fot MI positions)...
(something like that anyway...)
You see a System.. eg Acropolis or Aladdin etc etc etc...
Now... let me tell you... my Monsters are thick! They usually have trouble finding their feet/head/arms/weapons/food ... but they have no problems jumping universes and traversing interstellar space without the use of Star Ships...
So ... if you spot a lone Fatblob orbiting somewhere in Gamma 15... please don't shoot it...
Unless it follows Shroud!
Doug
Praise Kabuki!
| QUOTE (gtdoug @ Nov 4 2005, 01:05 PM) |
| Now... let me tell you... my Monsters are thick! They usually have trouble finding their feet/head/arms/weapons/food ... but they have no problems jumping universes and traversing interstellar space without the use of Star Ships... So ... if you spot a lone Fatblob orbiting somewhere in Gamma 15... please don't shoot it... Unless it follows Shroud! Doug Praise Kabuki! |
Kabuki is an flower!!!
:-)
Edit: before doug comments I mean problems with the order editor, don't expect kjc to fix any other type
Can someone plllllllease fix this.
Warning: mysql_pconnect(): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'rumpus.force9.net' (4) in /files/home3/kjcgames/orders/connect.php on line 6
Can't connect to MySQL server on 'rumpus.force9.net' (4)
...Which is happening 3-4 times an hour IN ADDITION to the other existing problems.
This is getting unusable... only the prospect of the work involved in getting my offline editor up to date stopped me shifting back to it weeks ago.
TonyH
The previously reported problem with MySQL has now been resolved and customer sites should now load normally.
Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience this caused.
Kind Regards,
Dave Tomlinson
F9 Customer Support
The game is getting very difficult to play - discounting the online editor, the SQL connection problem effects the Starbase Market pages, too.
I have tried reporting a problem, as a force9 customer having difficulties linking to a force9 hosted website, but they eventually came back with "Can I supply the fault number, raised by the website owner"?
TonyH
No doubt they will begin about 6.30pm and ramp up as we head into the weekend
I had the problem last night...
And a little earlier today...
Sorry I didn't mention it then.
Doug
but i've removed it now.<paranoid>Of course it might just be effecting the RIP</paranoid>
| QUOTE (Mica Goldstone @ Feb 10 2006, 03:40 PM) |
| No comments so far No doubt they will begin about 6.30pm and ramp up as we head into the weekend |
Doing my turns today and still had the problem - but nowhere near as often as before. I was writing an SA from a starbase, hit the issue order button and the SA disappeared and I was thrown back to the Turns page. i hope that doesnt mean the SA has appeared on someone elses turn!
It seems to happen if I dont issue an order for a little while and then continue, as if it forgets what position I was working on
Mark
I can try playing with my caching options again incase thats the problem
I use firefox for turns if that causes any differences to you, will try explorer when i do turns tonight just incase.
| QUOTE (Mica Goldstone @ Feb 13 2006, 11:25 AM) |
| Did everyone have multiple browsers/windows to the order editor open at the same time? e.g. one window showing a position, another showing political data etc |
I only had one window open to the order editor. I may have had other windows open too, but cant remember.
I use Firefox as well...
Mark
I have had several ship turns fail or mess up due to this. It is quite annoying when you have to do 30-40 turns.
Gordon
I strongly suspect that I've just lost a ship due to it being vulnerable, because yesterday the online editor posted orders to it meant for another position, when it randomly switched positions on me, as it does dozens of times a night. Checking for bug-induced errors, as well as having to take 2,3,4 attempts to do some orders is more than cancelling any benefits from the online order input, and loosing me up to an hour of my time every weekday night.
Is there any progress towards getting this fairly fundamental part of the game, working?
TonyH
| QUOTE (Tony on the phoenix yahoo list) |
> I asked this at the pubmeet; It's something along the lines of: The > session files are now being handled by two servers, rather > than one, as it was. This means a request can be processed by a > different server to the one who processed your last transaction, and > so has no idea which page you are on, which account you're dealing > with, that kind of thing. |
If this is the case, ie more than one apache serve serving the php pages, make sure the php.ini file puts the session data in a common location because it defaults to not doing that and is a fairly common problem and one that gives the results we are getting.
I imagine you'd have to talk to force9 to change it if it's the case. (I have little faith in force9 these days
) This is NOTHING TO DO with browsers, or tabs, or multiple windows.
I'm thinking of giving up until the game works. I am reduced to trying to run 30-odd positions from memory, with an order editor which randomizes the orders, in the middle of a war, because warfare is the only element of the game which is given development time. The editor has been screwed for over three months now!
TonyH
Most of the time it's just orders going to the wrong ship.
Not sure if anything has been changed but I think it seems slightly better than it used to be.