Crossfire 1.8 Bug fixing

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    Ok i know this not comment about bugs but i must say who ever did job putting weapons (Ancient cannons) and ships from Star wolves game in freelancer did amazingly good job, personaly i'm big fan of Star wolves game and u can imagine my surprise when i entered Devron system and saw alien battleship and 3 frigates(now stations lol) around planet. Also alien drones are exactly like alien ships in SW and just like there they are also extremely hard to kill.... Congrats on job extremly well done!!!!!!! cya in space

    if you can not see the intro (that happens from time to time with windows7) just run the mod without visual designs of win


    btw.
    those pics above are no bug

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    encounter tests wont happen today... will get done somewhen later


    i noticed a possible problem with some models and will check all related files now (that are just 1487 so it will take a while)

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    probably i missed ...if it wasnt reported yet....Carmona shipyard voice over says planet eaton

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    The server went on Red Lagg... we were over 30 online (or nearly) and suddenly it went on red. after about a minute, I Alt+F4ed out, as the server wasn't crashing. After about 5 mintues... or more... the server is still there, only with 8 sometiems 7 players.... and Ican't load in, like it's still on red lagg. Even tryed with 2 IDs... it's not a bug of mine. But why there are still 7 players on the server... and they don't Alt+F4 out... else the server won't crash as it seems.


    Before, there were normal crashes... but now ? What could provoke such thing, is that OP is uploading the fixed version of those 1500 files ? heh....



    EDIT: Seems it's down to 5 players now...

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    Originally posted by SWAT_OP-R8R
    if you can not see the intro (that happens from time to time with windows7) just run the mod without visual designs of win


    Thanks that solved my problem.


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    Originally posted by Spiky-
    you cannot F1 in space anymore... it has been deactivated due to tards using F1 during PvP


    That's so annoying. At least in SinglePlayer it should be activated.

    there is no way to seperate the sp from mp

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    Originally posted by Michael
    But why there are still 7 players on the server...

    Because the server kicks the players one by one until it reaches "SERVER IS REBOOTING " in the CF Web Page

    actually it doesnt, when it crashed then it doesnt submit anything or kicks anybody



    however
    ive been working on those +1400 files now and 600 of them are left to get reviewed
    many of them have to get fixed (or better to say i already fixed them)
    altogether i have to check +20.000 values to be sure everything is free of errors
    unfortunatly i didnt notice these minor errors before because they were automatically created by some of the newer modding tools that have been released the past year.
    I have a theory about the problems on the server... these errors are actually not big. FL normally does not really care about them and bypasses them. Thats why the client version is stable. I also noticed that the FL server also runs stable for a long time meanwhile (3-4 hours) when not that many players are online and got similar reports from players.
    My theory is that not the kind of errors crash the server but the amount of errors which happen at the same time so the flserver can not handle them anymore. The more players are online and the more systems are visited the more objects with errors get loaded and at a certain point it is just too much for the FLserver. From my left over theories about the crashes this one appears to be the most likely one.
    Thats why i want to check these +1400 files and release a massive patch on friday. I will apply this patch to the server sooner than friday to see if it actually makes a difference.
    The problem with this patch is that it will overwrite the files used for the compatibility mode. They players which have to use this mode because of their graphic card will run into some problems then.
    So i want to do a massive test on friday evening to test these changes. I need as many players online as possible. The ones which use the compatibility mode should stay in the vanilla systems as long the test is running. The patch will be a few hundred mb big so players with dial up should not even try to join the server.
    IF this test is successful i will release a new version of the mod, patching the server to version 1.81 to ensure that everyone uses the correct files. This new version will include the full version of the mod and ALL released patches.
    Thats the plan.
    Its just a theory... it might work... it might fail. But its worth a try.

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    Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
    Five percent pleasure,
    Fifty percent pain,
    And a hundred percent reason to remember the name!

    small note...maybe a bug?


    edit : don't know where attached picture went?...Oh dud.didn't click radio button

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    "marauder": Syn: bandit, buccaneer, desperado, forager, looter, pillager, pirate, plunderer, predator, raider


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    Thank you for doing this OP.. that's a lot of eye strain for free. The least I can do is be there for the test. Is there any place that needs extra attention?

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    Originally posted by Marauder
    small note...maybe a bug?


    edit : don't know where attached picture went?...Oh dud.didn't click radio button


    i found a lot of weapons and ships with the same coding in. in fact these may very well be the memory leaks, if text loaded runs past the size of the memory allocation for the block. no doubt these text fields are loaded for all objects in a system when you enter and join the server and undock. so this may well be it. it would make sense to me.

    Good job OP, I had a similar conclusion while playing in the server... that there must be a number of errors before the server gets down...


    Bond: Next time you see a long red lag, ALT+F4 out of there !, Thx to you and 4 more, the server wasn't restarting.

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