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Re: Let the game continue! |
Tue, 28 March 2006 03:27 |
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m.a@stars | | Commander | Messages: 2765
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marco75 wrote on Tue, 28 March 2006 05:48 | So m.a. stars (People) has requested a do-over of the last turn, claiming some bug has prevented his fleet from attacking.
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Pls don't believe what others are falsely claiming is my goal. I want to study and workaround the bug that's prevented two of my fleets from moving, and the ultimate goal is to avoid it happening in the future, to my fleets, to YOUR fleets, and to anybody's fleets.
NOBODY will re-do this turn. A re-gen is NOT a re-do!
Unfortunately, it seems the Empty x and m files are entirely too valuable for their allies/masters the Scandics, who have so far successfully blocked any attempt to review them. That's raised the bar from a mere technical hurdle to something nastier, and I won't allow anyone extracting a benefit, however small, from an *unknown* *unfathomable* *unavoidable* bug. That would be cheating, wouldn't it?
Quote: | Wether the bug is real or not
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If your eyes work at all, you already know the bug is more than real. Anybody who can compare their last two m files and find the nil differences in position for two of my fleets can see they didn't move at all.
Quote: | Let's just keep playing.
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I want to play. What I won't do is playing in a game with one HUGE potential cheat more than advertised.
Quote: | Come on, m.a., you can always attack me this turn.
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Of course, specially if your weak fleets keep moving at random and targeting my main fleets at their own risk.
Quote: | The 76th turn isn't suddenly going to turn the tide of the entire game, now is it.
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If a bug of this caliber is allowed to go unchecked, yes it will.
Quote: | I would like to continue playing, and having the game end because of a suspension is a unsatisfactory ending.
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It seems some ppl are not of your opinion and would rather end it now while they have at least an imaginary claim to victory.
Thanks for your patience and understanding.
[Updated on: Tue, 28 March 2006 03:29]
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Re: Let the game continue! |
Tue, 28 March 2006 03:52 |
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Empty has every right to target any fleet he so wishes. If People simply sent their ships where they were wanted instead of trying to be fancy and make varous fleets follow each other all aover the place as he merges and splits fleets he wouldn't have a problem.
Since People know the orders of the Empty for the previous turn (as well as significant other outcomes) a re-gen would indeed have to allow for everyone to change the orders since nobody could be sure what People did for the new re-genned turn. Of course - it should only take a week or so before the whole thing goes on hold again for another imaginary bug since m.a. would probably lose someplace and claim his ships were suppsed to be there.
So far, nobody has been able to prove his claim from this complaint other than to figure it's his own error.
Ptolemy
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Re: Let the game continue! |
Tue, 28 March 2006 04:23 |
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m.a@stars | | Commander | Messages: 2765
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Ptolemy wrote on Tue, 28 March 2006 10:52 | Empty has every right to target any fleet he so wishes.
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Of course. And everybody else has every right to learn if there's a possible way to trigger a bug which will freeze their fleets in place no matter what they do.
Quote: | If People simply sent their ships where they were wanted instead of trying to be fancy
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Since when targeting one of your own stationary fleets is fancy? Are you suggesting any targeting of your own fleets be banned?
Quote: | and make varous fleets follow each other all aover the place as he merges and splits fleets he wouldn't have a problem.
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ONE: I didn't do that. It has been proven to the satisfaction of all. Pls stop trying to confuse the issue.
TWO: even if I did, where in the manual/FaQ/wherever says it should be expected the fleets would simply not move?
Quote: | Since People know the orders of the Empty for the previous turn (as well as significant other outcomes)
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Of course, and it of course doesn't matter at all.
Quote: | a re-gen would indeed have to allow for everyone to change the orders since nobody could be sure what People did for the new re-genned turn.
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You're wrong on that one, as has been repeatedly explained. A re-gen is not a re-do, no matter how many times you try to scare others into believing it is. Pls stop doing that.
As I originally asked, the simplest regen would involve ZERO changes for all files involved. If the bug was a pure random issue, it could conceivably be solved that way.
IF the bug persisted, then our Host is more than able to open my x file and tweak the targeting orders (NOT their target, just their choice of ITEM in the coordinates of the target) from a stationary fleet to the planet this fleet is orbiting (and bombing out in the process). Nothing would change, except hopefully the bug itself.
IF the bug persisted, our host would need to open the Empty x file and check whether it was possible to tweak their targeting in the same way as mine to get rid of the bug. If this stage was reached we would be talking about a very serious bug, with a very nasty potential for cheats, and every effort should be made to analyze it and its possible workarounds.
And of course, Ptolemy should be very interested in helping solve it, but, bizarrely enough, he's not. He'll even go out of his way to keep the whole thing under the heaviest lid. Again, WHY?
Quote: | Of course - it should only take a week or so before the whole thing goes on hold again for another imaginary bug
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Don't I wish it was imaginary. The Empty would have lost a third of their capital ships in one go.
But for any bug of this caliber *ANY* game deserves to be stopped and carefully reviewed. Unless you don't care about how Stars! is played at all, that is.
Quote: | since m.a. would probably lose someplace and claim his ships were suppsed to be there.
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You keep dreaming.
Quote: | So far, nobody has been able to prove his claim from this complaint other than to figure it's his own error.
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Our Host is not "nobody". Steve is not "nobody". I'm not "nobody". Pls stop trying to claim what is so easily disproved. Either help us solve the issue or SHUT UP.
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Re: Let the game continue! |
Tue, 28 March 2006 08:41 |
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The point here is that you case has not been proved - neither by Steve nor Storm - if it had, I suspect we would have heard by now from one of them.
I have no capacity to assist in finding out what happened since I would need all the files to do so. Since I am not a neutral in this game that task must go to others.
If you are getting your re-gen then Empty has every right to change his orders. He can not be expected to have a re-gen send his ships into now what is known as apparently certain destruction when in the current turn they were not destroyed.
Ptolemy
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Re: Let the game continue! |
Tue, 28 March 2006 09:29 |
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m.a@stars | | Commander | Messages: 2765
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Ptolemy wrote on Tue, 28 March 2006 15:41 | The point here is that you case has not been proved - neither by Steve nor Storm - if it had, I suspect we would have heard by now from one of them.
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You know very well both of them are experiencing technical difficulties directly affecting their online capabilities. Worse, Storm needs Ron to fetch the backup files, and that takes time, too.
So please stop betting nobody will be able to disprove your claims and/or prove mine.
Quote: | I have no capacity to assist in finding out what happened since I would need all the files to do so. Since I am not a neutral in this game that task must go to others.
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You can at least answer the question: were any Scandic fleets targeting those two mutinous fleets of mine?
Also, you can stop muddying the issue, please.
Quote: | If you are getting your re-gen then Empty has every right to change his orders.
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Why? As far as I know, this is the 1st game where such a condition has ever been proposed, much less accepted.
Quote: | He can not be expected to have a re-gen send his ships into now what is known as apparently certain destruction when in the current turn they were not destroyed.
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Again, why not? He *knew* he was risking certain destruction when he targeted those fleets. Are you per chance implying he had any reasonable right to expect my fleets would *not* obey their orders?
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Re: Let the game continue! |
Wed, 29 March 2006 04:11 |
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m.a@stars wrote on Tue, 28 March 2006 15:29 |
Ptolemy wrote on Tue, 28 March 2006 15:41 | The point here is that you case has not been proved - neither by Steve nor Storm - if it had, I suspect we would have heard by now from one of them.
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You know very well both of them are experiencing technical difficulties directly affecting their online capabilities. Worse, Storm needs Ron to fetch the backup files, and that takes time, too.
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I'm now on the case.
My main domain (and thus mailserver) is, for some reason, inaccessible to me at the moment (annoying? you betcha), so I cannot read the mail sent to primary account.
On the plus side, this means that I can now work on the problem (real work and a bitch of a new boss allowing) uninterrupted by tiresome e-mails...
I will of course let y'all know the outcome of my research, as and when...
** Storm **
"Yeah... but... Jar Jar makes the Ewoks look like f***ing Shaft!"
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