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Inexpicable packeting message.

Thu, 31 January 2008 01:23

Soobie

Officer Cadet 3rd Year

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Registered: May 2007
Location: Australia

Just had the rather weird experience of having a packet inbound from an evil and wicked aggressor. Naturally I did not want any of my beloved folk dying an agonising and painful death, so I lifted all the pop onto a smelly cattle freighter as a manual WP0.

When the packet hit, Stars! turned around and said it was launched by another player! Certainly I expected the part of the message that told me that the packet hit but none of my pop was killed (there was none there to kill) ... but I didn't expect it to have the name of the race launching the packet changed. Shocked

Does this mean I now have a valid reason to attack another player???!!! (Do I really need a valid reason to attack another player?? Twisted Evil

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The only thing I can think of is that the race it was changed to is the .M1 race. All in all, very odd.

Anyone else had this packet-launcher-name-changed-on-strike thing happen and I am rehashing an old bug?

Cheers,
S.

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Re: Inexpicable packeting message.

Thu, 31 January 2008 01:37

wasp

Crewman 2nd Class

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Registered: January 2008
Location: Finland

Maybe there was a cloaked SS packet incoming that you didn't see. And then the other packet didn't give a message since the first hit made the planet uninhabited.

Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo

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Re: Inexpicable packeting message.

Thu, 31 January 2008 02:11

Soobie

Officer Cadet 3rd Year

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Registered: May 2007
Location: Australia

wasp wrote on Thu, 31 January 2008 17:07

Maybe there was a cloaked SS packet incoming that you didn't see. And then the other packet didn't give a message since the first hit made the planet uninhabited.

Nah, one is a CA and the other an SD. No cloaked packets hiding there.

Cheers
S.

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Re: Inexpicable packeting message.

Thu, 31 January 2008 04:23

AlexTheGreat

Lieutenant

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Registered: May 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia

Soobie wrote on Thu, 31 January 2008 01:23

When the packet hit, Stars! turned around and said it was launched by another player! Certainly I expected the part of the message that told me that the packet hit but none of my pop was killed (there was none there to kill) ... but I didn't expect it to have the name of the race launching the packet changed. Shocked

I haven't seen this as such but I did get a message in Bab5 v2 saying that the Minbari (player 1) had bombed me at Saturn which was not even a planet in the universe.

I sent my files to the host & he informed me that the message was not there! It certainly was for me - this was the message:

"Minbari fleets have bombed Orbiting Saturn, destroying -1471 of your defenses, factories and mines. Planetary defenses destroyed 166% of the incoming bombs."

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Re: Inexpicable packeting message.

Fri, 01 February 2008 03:57

m.a@stars

Commander

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Registered: October 2004
Location: Third star to the left

AlexTheGreat wrote on Thu, 31 January 2008 10:23

"Minbari fleets have bombed Orbiting Saturn, destroying -1471 of your defenses, factories and mines. Planetary defenses destroyed 166% of the incoming bombs."

That looks like a serious and potentially game-corrupting (or at least turn-corrupting) bug. Sherlock

So many Stars, so few Missiles!

In space no one can hear you scheme! Deal

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Re: Inexpicable packeting message.

Fri, 01 February 2008 04:02

m.a@stars

Commander

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Registered: October 2004
Location: Third star to the left

Soobie wrote on Thu, 31 January 2008 07:23

Anyone else had this packet-launcher-name-changed-on-strike thing happen and I am rehashing an old bug?

IIRC, I have seen it at least once in the past. The false culprit was a dead player, that's why I noticed. Twisted Evil

Perhaps it's happened more times but I didn't realize the names were wrong. Sherlock

It also happens with battle reports. Races that weren't even present at the battle site get blamed as attackers, or hailed as losers... Even the battle debris gets assigned to the wrong "owner" sometimes. Going insane

So many Stars, so few Missiles!

In space no one can hear you scheme! Deal

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