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Promethius [ Sat Oct 04, 2008 6:06 pm ]

Post subject:

Alien Messages Not Coming In

I am in a Sub Zero edit where alien fig hits or powering up messages are not coming through. I've seen this before a long time ago, but don't know what causes it. I've logged out of the game and back in and no change. No other players in the game (

non-truce ) to check fed comm or SS with. If I remember right, the last time this happened, we did not have any comms.

Screen Cap

No messages received.

[Pause]

Computer command [TL=00:00:00]:[4818] (?=Help)? Q

<Computer deactivated>

Command [TL=00:00:00]:[4818] (?=Help)? :

Silencing all messages.  Checked message settings

Command [TL=00:00:00]:[4818] (?=Help)? :

Displaying all messages.   Turned message back on with | command

Command [TL=00:00:00]:[4818] (?=Help)? : C
<Computer>

<Computer activated>

Computer command [TL=00:00:00]:[4818] (?=Help)? M
<Read messages>   Messages show up
> Your mines in 18851 did 11 damage to Ferrengi Dareb
Received from Deployed Fighters at 06:50:26 PM S.D. 10/04/20:
> Report Sector 18851: Ferrengi Dareb's Scorpion entered sector.
> Ferrengi Dareb destroyed 1 of your fighters in sector 18851

[Pause] - Delete messages? (Y/N) [N] N

Computer command [TL=00:00:00]:[4818] (?=Help)? Q

<Computer deactivated>

Command [TL=00:00:00]:[4818] (?=Help)? : C
<Computer>

<Computer activated>

Computer command [TL=00:00:00]:[4818] (?=Help)? M
<Read messages>
> Your mines in 18851 did 11 damage to Ferrengi Dareb
Received from Deployed Fighters at 06:50:26 PM S.D. 10/04/20:
> Report Sector 18851: Ferrengi Dareb's Scorpion entered sector.
> Ferrengi Dareb destroyed 1 of your fighters in sector 18851
Received from Deployed Fighters at 06:50:56 PM S.D. 10/04/20:  New message after checking comm status
> Report Sector 2274: Ferrengi Dareb's Scorpion entered sector.
> Ferrengi Dareb destroyed 100 of your fighters in sector 2274

[Pause] - Delete messages? (Y/N) [N] N
Computer command [TL=00:00:00]:[4818] (?=Help)? N
<Set ANSI and misc settings>

(1) ANSI graphics            - On
(2) Animation display        - Off
(3) Page on messages         - Off
(4) Sub-space radio channel  - XXXXX
(5) Federation comm-link     - On
(6) Receive private hails    - Yes
(7) Silence ALL messages     - No
(8) Change Password
(9) Abort display on keys    - SPACE
(A) Message Display Mode     - Compact
(B) Screen Pauses            - No
(C) Online Auto Flee         - Off


 Alien Cap below - his figs go down, no messages.  My single fig wave must have kicked butt!

<Attack>
Attack Rode Vaegash's Subterfuge Enterra (24,993-22,165) (Y/N) [N]? Yes
How many fighters do you wish to use (0 to 800) [0]? 1

You lost 1 fighter(s), 24,992 remain.
You destroyed 0 enemy fighters, 22,165 remain.

Command [TL=00:00:00]:[7021] (?=Help)? : A
<Attack>
Attack Rode Vaegash's Subterfuge Enterra (24,992-22,165) (Y/N) [N]? Yes
How many fighters do you wish to use (0 to 800) [0]? 1

You lost 1 fighter(s), 24,991 remain.
You destroyed 0 enemy fighters, 13,006 remain.

Command [TL=00:00:00]:[7021] (?=Help)? : A
<Attack>
Attack Rode Vaegash's Subterfuge Enterra (24,991-0) (Y/N) [N]? Yes
How many fighters do you wish to use (0 to 800) [0]? 1

 From the CM below on what he was doing

Received from Shipboard Computers at 07:33:49 PM S.D. 10/04/20:
> SubterFuge Rode Vaegash destroyed 11677 shield points and 0 fighters
Received from Shipboard Computers at 07:34:53 PM S.D. 10/04/20:
> SubterFuge Rode Vaegash destroyed 105 shield points and 0 fighters.
Received from Shipboard Computers at 07:34:58 PM S.D. 10/04/20:
> SubterFuge Rode Vaegash destroyed 91 shield points and 0 fighters.
Received from Shipboard Computers at 07:34:59 PM S.D. 10/04/20:
> SubterFuge Rode Vaegash destroyed 135 shield points and 0 fighters.
Received from Deployed Fighters at 07:35:35 PM S.D. 10/04/20:

Author:	Singularity [ Sat Oct 04, 2008 7:14 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Alien Messages Not Coming In
Had that problem before and toggling various CN settings fixed it.

Author:	Promethius [ Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:53 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Alien Messages Not Coming In
Singularity wrote: Had that problem before and toggling various CN settings fixed it. Toggled everything and still no luck. I toggled the settings, logged off, and repeated with no luck. I even tried turning SS messages all the way off and then back on. Hoping I can get in touch with the Op and see if a corrupted file might be causing it, but I somehow doubt that is the issue. No way to defend the game if I don't get messages - guess I could just lock it down.

Author:	Promethius [ Sun Oct 05, 2008 12:15 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Alien Messages Not Coming In
Another weird thing on the messages: 01:13:20 AM Mon Oct 05, 2020 Computer command [TL=00:00:00]:[19972] (?=Help)? M <Read messages> No messages received. [Pause] Computer command [TL=00:00:00]:[19972] (?=Help)? N <Set ANSI and misc settings> (1) ANSI graphics - On (2) Animation display - Off (3) Page on messages - On (4) Sub-space radio channel - 5507 (5) Federation comm-link - On (6) Receive private hails - Yes (7) Silence ALL messages - No (8) Change Password (9) Abort display on keys - SPACE (A) Message Display Mode - Compact (B) Screen Pauses - No (C) Online Auto Flee - Off Settings command (?=Help) [Q] Computer command [TL=00:00:00]:[19972] (?=Help)? M <Read messages> > Your mines in 7917 did 11 damage to Ferrengi Dareb Received from Deployed Fighters at 01:11:26 AM S.D. 10/05/20: > Report Sector 7917: Ferrengi Dareb's Scorpion entered sector. > Ferrengi Dareb destroyed 100 of your fighters in sector 7917 Even though I checked messages at 01:13 game time and nothing showed, after doing a CN and then checking, I see messages clocked at 1:11 that did not show up earlier.

Author:	Promethius [ Sun Oct 05, 2008 12:31 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Alien Messages Not Coming In
.... Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone The place is a madhouse Feels like being cloned My beacon's been moved under moon and star Where am I to go .... and for no apparent reason, messages start coming in........

Author:	Singularity [ Sun Oct 05, 2008 12:48 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Alien Messages Not Coming In
A team I was on a while back... Most of the team ended up this way over the course of a day. First a corpie, then another, then me. 2 others never had it happen, we did everything to try and fix it. I logged out, stayed off for a minute, logged back in and then checked my CN. It showed everything as fine too, but when I toggled everything from on to off back to on, everything started coming back in (altho correlation is not causality). Never figured out what caused it, but I suspect the code that handles messages is worded like... Code: if (SilenceMessages == "On") { send msgs here } So if SilenceMessages gets corrupted somehow, and contains something that's neither On nor Off, the CN shows it one way while the game behaves as CN7=on. Somehow in the process of things something else happened to reset the variable, whether it was anything we did or not.

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