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Black Panther
a.k.a. Dan Richter
Sysop - Castle Rock BBS (RCS)
The sparrows are flying again....

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A38 2018/01/01 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Castle Rock BBS - bbs.castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)

Andrew,

I had recently sent out an attack of 1 trooper. I received a message stating the attack was unsuccessful, and that 970 fighters have returned. I didn't
send any fighters... :/

This might be something that has already been taken care of in the newer version which is running locally.


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Black Panther
aka Dan Richter
Sysop - Castle Rock BBS(RCS)
telnet://castlerockbbs.com
The sparrows are flying again...

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A35 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Castle Rock BBS - telnet://castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)

Black Panther said....

I had recently sent out an attack of 1 trooper. I received a message stating the attack was unsuccessful, and that 970 fighters have returned. I didn't send any fighters... :/

Thanks, I'll have a look into it.

Andrew
--- MagickaBBS v0.7alpha (Linux/x86_64)
* Origin: Exotica BBS - telnet://exoticabbs.com:2023/ (21:1/125)

On 10/18/17, apam pondered and said...

I had recently sent out an attack of 1 trooper. I received a message sta the attack was unsuccessful, and that 970 fighters have returned. I didn send any fighters... :/

Thanks, I'll have a look into it.

Do you think it's time I looked to update the interBBS game...?

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A35 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | telnet://agency.bbs.geek.nz (21:1/101)

Do you think it's time I looked to update the interBBS game...?

Maybe, I've just fixed the bug dan was referring to (I think).

To be honest I stopped playing a while ago kind of got caught up playing
gary's doors.

If you want to do an update i'll press the build button on the fsx
versions.

Andrew


--- MagickaBBS v0.7alpha (Linux/x86_64)
* Origin: Exotica BBS - telnet://exoticabbs.com:2023/ (21:1/125)

To be honest I stopped playing a while ago kind of got caught up playing gary's doors.

Oh... Sure... Blame Gary.... :) <Just Kidding>...

If you want to do an update i'll press the build button on the fsx versions.

BEFORE you do, here is a thought.

I do not know if you have this set up or not.

Planet "Production" .. is it a Set amount * Planet Qty? Or is there a
Random number used?

What I mean is lets say I have 100 Ore Planets, do they always produce the same amount of Ore each turn or is there a Random-Number Generated to
determine how much Ore is produced that turn? Same with Factory Planets, Soldier Planets, Food Planets etc... And on the Urban Planets, another idea
is to have Number of Deaths and Number of Births randomly generated to Raise/Lower populations...

Just some thoughts...
Ignore at will... :)

Gary

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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A34 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Another F-ing BBS (21:2/105)

Oh... Sure... Blame Gary.... :) <Just Kidding>...

Oh, I do! LOL Stop making fun games to play and I'll stop playing!!! :)

Planet "Production" .. is it a Set amount * Planet Qty? Or is there a Random number used?

Sort of yes, you still have to have enough population to work the
planets, so if you have an insane amount of ore planets they will only
produce as much as your citizens can work them, if you have very few ore planets, they will produce ore to maximum capacity.

If I was going to add random numbers to the mix, I think I'd rather do it
via the events system. for example one turn might say something like, new
ore mining technology break through, ore mining up 10% or something. Or
union protests, ore mining down 10%

Andrew


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Oh, I do! LOL Stop making fun games to play and I'll stop playing!!! :)

Nope... I will continue to Make More...! :)

If I was going to add random numbers to the mix, I think I'd rather do it via the events system. for example one turn might say something like, new ore mining technology break through, ore mining up 10% or something. Or union protests, ore mining down 10%

Makes perfect sense... I was unaware about the Number of people on Urban Planets effects Production, that is a much smarter idea...

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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A34 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Another F-ing BBS (21:2/105)

On 10/18/17, apam pondered and said...

To be honest I stopped playing a while ago kind of got caught up playing gary's doors.

Heh... well he's done a lot of work lately, I started on Hotel California but
I haven't left it yet!

If you want to do an update i'll press the build button on the fsx versions.

Yep but only when you feel you want to, then just give me the nod and I can update things :)

Best, Paul

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A35 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | telnet://agency.bbs.geek.nz (21:1/101)

Heh... well he's done a lot of work lately, I started on Hotel California but I haven't left it yet!

I sat down yesterday (I think, maybe the day before) and played it until
I escaped. I know there's another 5? ways to escape, so will have to
play again soon. I quiet enjoyed it, I like his sense of humour, it
reminded me of the old adventures I used to play like Monkey Island.

Yep but only when you feel you want to, then just give me the nod and I can update things :)

Well, I don't see myself making many changes to it in the near future,
unless bugs crop up I guess. So it might be a good time to update. I've
not been doing a ton of coding, just updating magicka for tiny and
playing a bit with making a door game maker (though that's just me
playing around).

I'll hit the build button now, I will upload to agency shortly.

Andrew


--- MagickaBBS v0.7alpha (Linux/x86_64)
* Origin: Exotica BBS - telnet://exoticabbs.com:2023/ (21:1/125)

On 10/18/17, apam pondered and said...

I'll hit the build button now, I will upload to agency shortly.

Got them an just hatched out - thanks!

Will wait until tomorrow night my time (so approx 24 hours) until I look to update the 1/10 HUB system.. that gives others a chance to grab the files
etc. also.

Best, Paul

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A35 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | telnet://agency.bbs.geek.nz (21:1/101)

Quoting apam to Avon <=-

I've not been doing a ton of coding, just updating magicka for tiny and playing a bit with making a door game maker (though that's just me
playing around).

I think I give you a huge bug / feature request and you have it completed
in an hour. So I'm going to have to start thinking BIGGER now. <LOL>

Actually I kinda found a bug in ticproc (not really a bug but..) if the
.tic file says the filename is UPCASE.ZIP but linux has it stored as say
upcase.zip it doesn't process it. Can you make it case insensitive maybe?

Shawn

... We never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.
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Actually I kinda found a bug in ticproc (not really a bug but..) if the
.tic file says the filename is UPCASE.ZIP but linux has it stored as
say
upcase.zip it doesn't process it. Can you make it case insensitive maybe?

Ok, I added an option for case insensitivity.. it was a little bit of
work, and I don't have a way of testing it. So if it blows up on the next
hatch we know why :)

To use it, see the example.ini and set Ignore Case to true.

Andrew


--- MagickaBBS v0.7alpha (Linux/aarch64)
* Origin: Raven - Magicka Linux/aarch64 Test BBS! (21:1/125.3)

Ok, I added an option for case insensitivity.. it was a little bit of work, and I don't have a way of testing it. So if it blows up on the next hatch we know why :)

Laugh, sounds like a plan. I'll let you know when avon hatches
something again. :)

To use it, see the example.ini and set Ignore Case to true.

Will do! ;)

Shawn


--- MagickaBBS v0.7alpha (Linux/armv7l)
* Origin: Smells like raspberry pi in here. (21:1/130.4)

On 10/18/17, apam pondered and said...

I'll hit the build button now, I will upload to agency shortly.

Been a bit slow to update this at the 1/10 HUB (sorry about that)

The inter-bbs game has been updated and is now running v0.3.0-fsx

I will issue a league wide reset in the coming 12 hours so please aim to
update your systems as soon as you're able.

Best, Paul

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A35 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | telnet://agency.bbs.geek.nz (21:1/101)

On 10/21/17, Avon pondered and said...

I will issue a league wide reset in the coming 12 hours so please aim to update your systems as soon as you're able.

Reset has been sent guys...

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A35 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | telnet://agency.bbs.geek.nz (21:1/101)

On 10/22/17, Avon said the following...

Reset has been sent guys...

Avon,

Are we using the version that you had hatched out? I just had a chance to
look at the game, and noticed that I don't have any scores.

The logs are showing:
'Got packet for incorrect game id, skipping'

I've got the BBS.CFG file dated 25 Sep.

The galactic.ini file is showing:
[Main]
Turns Per Day = 20
Turns In Protection = 60
Log Path = /home/dan/doors/gdyn/logs/

[Interbbs]
Enabled = True
System Name = Castle Rock BBS
League Number = 21
Node Number = 4
File Inbox = /home/dan/mystic/echomail/in/
Default Outbox = /home/dan/mystic/out/fsxnet.015/10/

I'm not sure what I did wrong with the setup...


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Black Panther
aka Dan Richter
Sysop - Castle Rock BBS(RCS)
telnet://castlerockbbs.com
The sparrows are flying again...

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A35 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Castle Rock BBS - telnet://castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)

Are we using the version that you had hatched out? I just had a chance to look at the game, and noticed that I don't have any scores.

The logs are showing: 'Got packet for incorrect game id, skipping'

Try deleting game_id.dat it might have picked up an old packet after the
reset and is thinking that is the current game.

Andrew


--- MagickaBBS v0.7alpha (Linux/x86_64)
* Origin: Exotica BBS - telnet://exoticabbs.com:2023/ (21:1/125)

On 10/26/17, apam pondered and said...

Try deleting game_id.dat it might have picked up an old packet after the reset and is thinking that is the current game.

What he said :)

I have not updated the HUB again since so it's the last fsx version that
andrew sent out a week or so ago that I have in place.

I do need to send a revised BBS.CFG to you all, that takes out Jan's now offline BBS (node 5 from memory)

Paul

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A35 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | telnet://agency.bbs.geek.nz (21:1/101)

On 10/26/17, apam said the following...

The logs are showing: 'Got packet for incorrect game id, skipping'

Try deleting game_id.dat it might have picked up an old packet after the reset and is thinking that is the current game.

Thanks Andrew.

I've deleted it. Now I'm just waiting for a game packet to come in. :)


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Black Panther
aka Dan Richter
Sysop - Castle Rock BBS(RCS)
telnet://castlerockbbs.com
The sparrows are flying again...

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A35 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Castle Rock BBS - telnet://castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)

Just a heads up it looks like the HUB whilst processing packets coming in is not removing the packet it processes from the echomail\inbound directory

If you (and others) can play a few rounds of the game and send some packets
the way of 1/10 then I can confirm it's not just Agency sending packets to
1/10 and causing this behavior.

I did find a bunch of .GAL packets in the inbound earlier and moved them to a temp dir... I had run maint on them but the .exe was not picking up anything
to process so I conclude they may have built up over time and were also some just not deleted after first processing run had concluded.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A36 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | telnet://agency.bbs.geek.nz (21:1/101)

On 10/26/17, Avon pondered and said...

I do need to send a revised BBS.CFG to you all, that takes out Jan's now offline BBS (node 5 from memory)

Done. Active nodes... please look for a new BBS.CFG file in your inbound directory. Please place this in your Galactic Dynasty directory.

Best, Paul

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A36 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | telnet://agency.bbs.geek.nz (21:1/101)

On 10/29/17, Avon said the following...

I do need to send a revised BBS.CFG to you all, that takes out Jan's offline BBS (node 5 from memory)

Done. Active nodes... please look for a new BBS.CFG file in your inbound directory. Please place this in your Galactic Dynasty directory.

Got it updated over here. :)


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Black Panther
aka Dan Richter
Sysop - Castle Rock BBS(RCS)
telnet://castlerockbbs.com
The sparrows are flying again...

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A36 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Castle Rock BBS - telnet://castlerockbbs.com (21:1/186)

Avon said....

Just a heads up it looks like the HUB whilst processing packets coming in is not removing the packet it processes from the echomail\inbound directory

If you (and others) can play a few rounds of the game and send some packets the way of 1/10 then I can confirm it's not just Agency sending packets to 1/10 and causing this behavior.

I did find a bunch of .GAL packets in the inbound earlier and moved them to a temp dir... I had run maint on them but the .exe was not picking up anything to process so I conclude they may have built up over time and were also some just not deleted after first processing run had concluded.

Yes, it doesn't just delete packets that it doesn't process as people might be running more than one interbbs game at a time. This would lead to build up due to incorrect clients, or incorrect game ids, especially around the time of an upgrade / reset when people are in the process of updating.

I'm not sure what to do about it. I suppose you could clear out the directory after the maintenance runs, but that might add a race condition if a packet arrives while maintenance is processing and gets deleted.

Andrew
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On 10/29/17, apam pondered and said...

Yes, it doesn't just delete packets that it doesn't process as people might be running more than one interbbs game at a time. This would lead
to build up due to incorrect clients, or incorrect game ids, especially around the time of an upgrade / reset when people are in the process of updating.

I figured out what I think was happening. I had the bbs.cfg set up at Agency for Jan's now defunct node still, so Agency created a packet the HUB bbs.cfg did not know what to do with so it just sat there.

I just played the game again at agency with the updated bbs.cfg and all
packets sent to the HUB were processed. I suspect the same thing was
happening for the others sending the hub packets for a node that was no
longer in the game... my bad for not updating things correctly when I removed the node from the hub config :)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A36 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | telnet://agency.bbs.geek.nz (21:1/101)

I figured out what I think was happening. I had the bbs.cfg set up at Agency for Jan's now defunct node still, so Agency created a packet the HUB bbs.cfg did not know what to do with so it just sat there.

Ah that makes sense.

Andrew

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* Origin: Agency BBS | telnet://agency.bbs.geek.nz (21:1/101)

On 10/29/17, apam pondered and said...

Ah that makes sense.

I'm quietly relieved to have sussed that :)

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A36 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | telnet://agency.bbs.geek.nz (21:1/101)

Andrew;
I've been away for so long. Is there a new version of GD IBBS? If so, where can I get a new copy and be added back into the mix?
Gary Crunk

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Another F-ing BBS (21:4/126)

Andrew;
I've been away for so long. Is there a new version of GD IBBS?
If so, where can I get a new copy and be added back into the mix?
Gary Crunk

I think there has been a few changes, probably the best place to get it
would be agency. Paul will have to add you to the game.

Andrew

--- MagickaBBS v0.12alpha (Linux/x86_64)
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I've been away for so long. Is there a new version of GD IBBS? If so,
here can I get a new copy and be added back into the mix?

For Honour is also IBBS these days. Available at Agency also.. :)

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