• Get a list of countries already used?

    From Marisag@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 28 05:20:47 2018
    Im adding this to my BBS's, but I dont understand how players find the first player number they can use. Sure they can try each one till thy find one with the default password still set, but when you have 30+ countries that could be very frustrating. Is there a way I can output the country command output to a file, where I can parse it and put it up on a website? where they can see it before entering the game?

    Thanks!
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  • From Arrakis@21:1/5 to Marisag on Wed Nov 28 14:54:58 2018
    On Wednesday, November 28, 2018 at 4:26:08 AM UTC-9, Marisag wrote:
    Im adding this to my BBS's, but I dont understand how players find the first player number they can use. Sure they can try each one till thy find one with the default password still set, but when you have 30+ countries that could be very frustrating. Is there a way I can output the country command output to a file, where I can parse it and put it up on a website? where they can see it before entering the game?

    Thanks!
    Marisa
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    Just go in and change all the passwords for every country but one, maybe two.

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  • From Gerd Flaig@21:1/5 to Marisag on Thu Nov 29 14:09:19 2018
    "Marisag" <marisag@amigacity.xyz.remove-rdb-this> writes:

    Im adding this to my BBS's, but I dont understand how players find the first player number they can use. Sure they can try each one till thy find one with the default password still set, but when you have 30+ countries that could be very frustrating. Is there a way I can output the country command output to a file, where I can parse it and put it up on a website? where they can see it before entering the game?

    not exactly that, however here's a simple way to dump countries still in sanctuary:

    % echo sanc | nc -N blitz.wolfpackempire.com 5678
    2 Empire server ready
    1 The following countries are still in sanctuary:
    1 1
    1 2
    1 3
    1 4
    1 5
    1 6
    1 7
    1 8
    1 9
    1 10
    0
    3 so long...

    See doc/clients-howto in the empserver repository for more details on
    the client protocol.

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  • From Marisag@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 29 14:56:27 2018
    To: Gerd Flaig
    Re: Re: Get a list of countries already used?
    By: Gerd Flaig to rec.games.empire on Thu Nov 29 2018 14:09:19

    not exactly that, however here's a simple way to dump countries still in sanctuary:

    % echo sanc | nc -N blitz.wolfpackempire.com 5678
    2 Empire server ready

    When I put the "-N" option I get a error about invalid option "N". If I leave the option N off I get "b Command sanc not found"

    Any suggestions?

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  • From Marisag@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 29 20:00:30 2018
    To: Gerd Flaig
    Re: Re: Get a list of countries already used?
    By: Marisag to Gerd Flaig on Thu Nov 29 2018 14:56:27

    When I put the "-N" option I get a error about invalid option "N". If I leave the option N off I get "b Command sanc not found"

    Any suggestions?

    I also tried the "list" command and got the same "not found" message. "players" too. Is there somewhere I say what commands are allowed before loggin in?

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  • From Gerd Flaig@21:1/5 to Marisag on Fri Nov 30 19:05:37 2018
    "Marisag" <marisag@amigacity.xyz.remove-wmc-this> writes:

    To: Gerd Flaig
    Re: Re: Get a list of countries already used?
    By: Marisag to Gerd Flaig on Thu Nov 29 2018 14:56:27

    When I put the "-N" option I get a error about invalid option "N". If I leave the option N off I get "b Command sanc not found"

    Any suggestions?

    I also tried the "list" command and got the same "not found" message. "players"
    too. Is there somewhere I say what commands are allowed before loggin in?

    yes, in the aformentioned client-howto[1] under "Login phase".

    Goodbyte, Gerd.

    [1] http://git.pond.sub.org/?p=empserver;a=blob;f=doc/clients-howto;h=ad4767473093334ca69cc8aeec244c0eb15cf74e;hb=HEAD

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  • From Gerd Flaig@21:1/5 to Marisag on Fri Nov 30 19:01:44 2018
    "Marisag" <marisag@amigacity.xyz.remove-8xs-this> writes:

    To: Gerd Flaig
    Re: Re: Get a list of countries already used?
    By: Gerd Flaig to rec.games.empire on Thu Nov 29 2018 14:09:19

    not exactly that, however here's a simple way to dump countries still in sanctuary:

    % echo sanc | nc -N blitz.wolfpackempire.com 5678
    2 Empire server ready

    When I put the "-N" option I get a error about invalid option "N". If I leave the option N off I get "b Command sanc not found"

    interesting. This is supposed to close the connection once EOF is
    received on the input. Ancient netcat installation?

    Any suggestions?

    No idea. The "sanc" command in the login phase has been around at least
    since the import of 4.2.12 into git, some sixteen years ago.

    Which version of Empire are you using?

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  • From Marisag@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 30 19:47:54 2018
    To: Gerd Flaig
    Re: Re: Get a list of countries already used?
    By: Gerd Flaig to rec.games.empire on Fri Nov 30 2018 19:05:37

    yes, in the aformentioned client-howto[1] under "Login phase".


    Reading that I found the cause:
    * sanc
    161
    162 List all countries that are still in sanctuary. The output consists
    163 of a number of C_DATA lines with human-readable text.
    164
    165 This command is only recognized if option BLITZ is enabled.

    I dont have blitz enabled. Will try changing the mode...

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  • From Marisag@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 30 19:37:37 2018
    To: Gerd Flaig
    Re: Re: Get a list of countries already used?
    By: Gerd Flaig to rec.games.empire on Fri Nov 30 2018 19:01:44

    When I put the "-N" option I get a error about invalid option "N". If I leave the option N off I get "b Command sanc not found"

    interesting. This is supposed to close the connection once EOF is
    received on the input. Ancient netcat installation?

    It does close the connection, just doesn't seem to need the -N option.


    No idea. The "sanc" command in the login phase has been around at least since the import of 4.2.12 into git, some sixteen years ago.

    Which version of Empire are you using?

    The latest 4.4.0 release...

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