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Unread post New beta version on test site
I've posted the latest version for testing on twgs.classictw.com. There are some changes that really need some testing, so anyone with a bot or some time to kill, please put it through some paces.

In particular, I added a function to limit interactive combat to one-at-a-time, so if two players are attacking one player, the first must complete the attack before the second can begin. This should help eliminate some of the glitchy behavior caused by multiple concurrent attacks. I've seen this in testing when I'm being attacked by a group of Gold aliens, and have seen problems specifically related to being bounced from one sector into another, then immediately attacked and bounced into another before my game can catch up. I end up showing the wrong sector. The new approach clears this up, but needs testing to make sure it doesn't create any new issues.

Also, I made the photon launch and the mine disruptor functions "atomic". This means that sector, ship and user files are locked while these actions are taking place. This is how most actions are handled, but for some reason these functions were never made atomic. That means that multiple players could be launching a photon or disruptor at the same time, resulting in corrupt data. Now one must finish before the other can begin.

I'll be building my changes list today and will post soon. This is going to be a major update!

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In particular, I added a function to limit interactive combat to one-at-a-time, so if two players are attacking one player, the first must complete the attack before the second can begin. This should help eliminate some of the glitchy behavior caused by multiple concurrent attacks. I've seen this in testing when I'm being attacked by a group of Gold aliens, and have seen problems specifically related to being bounced from one sector into another, then immediately attacked and bounced into another before my game can catch up. I end up showing the wrong sector. The new approach clears this up, but needs testing to make sure it doesn't create any new issues.

I'll be building my changes list today and will post soon. This is going to be a major update!


Is this only for alien behavior or for PvP as well?

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The restriction on combat is PvA, AvP and PvP ;)

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Interesting. I have a TWA, my first Gold edit with 3 races. I can't wait to see the new settings on this one.

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For my testing, I banged a 100 sector game with aggressive Alien Traders and Ferrengi, aged to 150 days. Things got pretty crazy ;)

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Unread post Re: New beta version on test site
I tried reset and Defaults in Bang and did not see any change to settings in option pages H or I settings.

So I was not sure if they worked or not.

I even change the universe size to see if that was keeping it from resetting.

I dont have much time for testing since I have this new job ..
So I'll try the next time I have more time.

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Oh, you know what, I misunderstood what you were referring to there. Here's how Bigbang works when resetting defaults.

If you just enter the Default command in Bigbang, it will only reset the bigbang-related settings, not all settings. If you want to restore all defaults for the game, you must run Bigbang by selecting the "Start with default data files" radio button. That should reset every setting. It actually was missing some newer configuration settings, but I've added them all at this point.

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Unread post Re: New beta version on test site
Since this was being tested through admin port .. that option is not available.
No is the option to import a game and maybe just a few other options ..

So your saying there is no way through admin account to reset all settings ..

I can live with that , since I do most of my bangs local.
And as local I can delete game and start new fresh one with stock settings.

Thanks for the explanation tho :)

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You're right, Vid, there are still things that need to be supported for remote admin connection. I sometimes forget. I'll make a note.

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Well, I implemented some additional choices for running Bigbang from the admin account so you can run with current data, default data, or migrate data from another game, like you can when running from the console. BUT, I realized that this will probably break some scripts. Anyone scripting Bigbang?

Maybe I could put a timeout on the first prompt after you start bigbang so if a script fails to respond to the prompt, it'll default to "use current data" and go ahead into Bigbang. That would probably avoid breaking any scripts.

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