From the Hyperspace Forum:

So, have these bugs been addressed in TWGS v2.x ?

I'll have to look these over. So much has changed "under the hood" that even without directly addressing some bugs, they may have been fixed, while, obviously, new ones were created.

It really is hilarious that I'm working on a game that's over 100,000 lines of code, that's built on a codebase from the early 1990s that supported Desqview and DOS5, a game what was written to be single player, then "hacked" to support interactive play, that is compiled with Delphi 4, a compiler released for Win95, and he's nitpicking me about "3 major bugs". Ok. Considering the thousands of bugs I've fixed in TW since I took it over in 1994, I'll take that.

Here is a partial list of bugs fixed, changes and new features for TW and TWGS between v1.03 and v2.00. I never got around to posting these on the TWGS v2 revision history page, but they can be found in the revision history file that ships with the game.

Fixed mail system. Replaced single file system with multi-file "mailbox"
system for greater stability.

Moved several global settings into local config file so they can now be
changed per-game rather than server-wide.

TWGS: Can toggle Active/Inactive state for a game on the server. When
Inactive, players may not enter the game. Bigbang is available for Inactive
games even when the server is Online. Making a game Inactive while the
server is online will force any players in that game offline without
warning.

TWGS: Added ability to run Bigbang from remote admin connection. Can only
run on games that are set to INACTIVE or have not yet been banged.

Fixed Planetary Trade Agreement display truncating planet number > 999.

Fixed bug where forcing a user offline causes time online to reset

Fixed bug with fig decay lock causing player to drop to command menu from
planet menu when using planetary transwarp.

TWGS: Moved game management from Configure to Command Center

Alien servers automatically reset whenever games with aliens are added
or removed, activated or deactivated, or aliens are activated while the
server is online.

Bug: Gold edited Merchant Cruiser can have a maximum fighter count that's
larger than the Initial Fighters field can handle. Fix: Limited the total
number of initial fighters to 65535, the maximum allowed for the field.

TWGS: Added foundation for Jumpgate. TWGS now lists servers with
jumpgate.classictw.com.

TWGS: Added test for latest TWGS version and prompt to download if a newer
one is found.

Added new, faster memory manager with better diagnostics tools for tracking
memory corruption

Fix: TW internal clock can go out of synch with other running game sessions,
causing them to be unable to process messages between one another. The clock
now resynchs every minute to avoid loss of synchronization.

Fix: Gold aliens can deadlock when crossing paths. Now, only one alien can
complete such a move and the other will wait.

Fix: TW2002, TEDIT, etc, could close prior to sending all output. Applications
will not close until all output is sent.

Gold files (name files, rank files) are expected to be found in the game's
Gold directory rather than the main Gold directory. This will help to avoid
collisions when running multiple TWA mod files.

Games that lock up in a loop will break out of that loop and close gracefully,
helping to avoid data corruption.

Change: Bigbang now supports 30K sectors.

Fix: Gold aliens could spawn in a fortified sector and, when failing to move,
be unable to retreat, forcing them into sector 0. Aliens are now not allowed
to spawn in a fortified sector.

Fix: Gold aliens could attack FedSafe players. Now Gold aliens have the same
rules for attacking FedSafe players as other players.

Fix: Gold aliens would never destroy defensive fighters. Aliens will now
destroy fighters and enter the sector.

Fix: Gold aliens will continually re-enter a sector they cannot enter, causing
a large volume of email spam. These aliens will now mark a sector as avoided
if they fail to enter, and only enter if they have enough fighters and shields
to have an impact on the sector's defenses.

Change: Aggressive aliens will favor moving into fortified sectors.

Change: Gold aliens now track kills and ports. When alien ships are captured,
these stats will effect the resale value on those ships.

Change: Hardware fields for Gold aliens are passed to a captured ship, allowing
players to recover these items.

Change: Aliens have a strength to value ratio that they will attempt to maintain
through buying and picking up fighters, buying shields, dropping and taking
credits from Citadel, etc.

Change: If an alien is unable to retreat to a safe sector, it will self-destruct.

Change: Added personal setting for sector autocompletion. Autocompletion
defaults to ON for compatibility with scripts and helpers, but can be turned
off if desired.

Fix: A bug in the input system can cause a number of strange behaviors,
including screens that are aborted, messages that won't display, and an
apparant hard lock. The input buffer peek routine no longer looks beyond
valid input, fixing this set of bugs.

TWGS: Various fixes related to heavy traffic. Server now handles fast
connects and drops, no longer has memory leaks associated with high loads, etc.

TWGS: Import and export operations are segmented so processing large TWA files
will not bog down the server connections.

TWGS: Reorganized remote admin connections with many added and improved
features.

TWGS: Extern is now scheduled per-game rather than server-wide.

TWGS: Server now runs as a service on Windows 2003 Server, Vista, and newer
OSs.

Not to mention that you are doing this in your spare time, while working on full time projects. I know when I get home from working on computers all day long, I don't even want to look at my computer, even to play a game.

Looks good for a Monday, what did you get done on Tuesday? Or so the attitude usually goes where I work. A lot of work and time spent looks like.

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

"A man who has no skills can be taught, a man who has no honor has nothing."

That was just the list of bugs and stuff from v1.03 to v2.00. I've done a ton more than that since v2.00. The whole list of revisions for v2 can be found at http://wiki.classictw.com/index.php?tit ... on_History

My apologies to all parties if I am re-asking the same
question, but it seems there are two different things
being discussed here:

1) What bugs are in version 1.03? -As in, still remaining
to haunt users of the old version. It's relevant if we
plan to play a tournament on a v1.03 server.

2) Have these specific bugs been addressed now in the
latest available version? Have we been testing the
'TAG' disco bug on the beta server, for example?

In which version did the tournament mode death delay get fixed? I think that will be very important to know for the BOTE.

And what the heck is the 'TAG' disco bug?

Death delay is still an issue in BOTE because NOTHING has been fixed since it's running on 1.03. But everybody knows these bugs, and we handle them. Read my post to Kav viewtopic.php?f=14&t=32506&start=61 and the rules to BOTE 2011 viewtopic.php?f=14&t=32506&start=1 specificly #9
This is why I argue that we've leveled the playing fields. We're not playing with unknowns, we're playing with known bugs we've played with for years.

Now the tag is a script some players including myself found that basicly follows someone walking through your grid, and replaces the figs they just destroyed pretty much instantly, this also had the benifit of being able to knock your opponent out of the game for reasons I don't understand, but it really annoyed them I can assure you!

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Do you have a copy of this tag script

Yes I do, I believe it was posted publicly at one point.
Shame we no longer have a public script bank like Grimmy's. I'd love to recreate one and host it.

NavHaz junction has a nice collection of scripts:

http://www.navhaz.com/forums/ezdloads.php

I loved it when people ran the tag script during truce, into a pod they go done nice and legal. It has been a while since I've ran into anyone running it so maybe there have been changes to it.

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

"A man who has no skills can be taught, a man who has no honor has nothing."

Tag is a LoneStar script:
LS Script Pack

You're looking for a script called 'YourIt'


The bug/hiccup occurs when two players try to deploy a
fighter into the sector at the same exact time. Fun script,
but one that can seriously get you killed quickly...

Crosby, to answer your question (as far as I know), the question is which v1.03 bugs are still in v2. No bugs will be fixed for v1.03.

Ok, so can someone try out this tag script and let me know if this is still an issue? As I said, so much has changed under the surface that some bugs will be gone even if they weren't addressed directly. So if there are known bugs that people just work around, let's get those fixed.

And again, if it was only known bugs on v1.03, that wouldn't be a problem. But certain players have bragged that they have a list of bugs that only they know, that they refuse to report. I don't understand why anyone is ok with that. People need to report the bugs so the community can decide how to deal with them, either fix them or integrate them. Thankfully, there are a lot of players who are reporting bugs for v2. I believe that's why some players are pushing to keep players on v1.03. They can't give me any other reasons why they prefer that version. It's my goal that v2, with default settings, run identical to v1.03, with the exception of fixed bugs. For some reason, that's not good enough for some people.