Admin Notice: Server testing #5

[Xalrok]

That's a known bug. If you take the trade lane in Iota, and then a normal lane without restarting FL, it uses the nomlane animation.

Canon, could you explain the reasoning behind not appearing in the same spot when you F1 in space?

Seems to be designed to stop miners from F1ing their own personal haulers in space so they don't have to hire another player to do it for them.

[The.Outlaw.Star]

helium turned on in Penn.

Balloons!

Thanks Cannon

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[Agmen of Eladesor]

Silmarillion, stop posting. Don't log onto the server with more than one character at a time. Got it?

Points to: http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=60036

Technically, this rule should also have added to it at the end: 'at the same time'.

This one causes the most grief and/or questions. Yes, it is perfectly acceptable to have two (or more) people in the same house or on the same IP flying ships. Yes, it is perfectly acceptable if you have two computers and multiple accounts for you to briefly (and by that we're talking about 2-3 minutes) log on so that you can do equipment transfers - just don't do that when the server is more than 3/4 full. (We know dead drops in space can sometimes just disappear.)

What is not acceptable is to have two traders chugging down the lanes where we can obviously tell that one person is controlling both ships. Or someone pulling another ship across a sector, when (again) it's obvious no one is in the second ship. Or for that matter, having a trader being 'escorted' by another ship - again, where it's obvious that there's only one pilot for both ships. Any and all of these are multi-boxing, which is not allowed on our server. Other servers may (and do) have different rules on this rule.

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.

[Papar]

I think that a time and date should be added to the docking message the same way that it exists in the cloaking device message. This will help people posting sactions even more.

[alphadog]

Nah, just typing /time manually solves that problem. The message is big enough as it is.

[Hielor]

Points to: http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=60036

It's a good source, but given how often it comes up, I think it should be clarified to indicate whether cargo transfers are acceptable or not, and whether F1ing from one account to another in order to pick up something just dropped (without being actually logged in on both simultaneously) is acceptable or not--since that's the majority of the questions that get raised.

A couple more sentences there would prevent a lot of threads from getting made.

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On-topic:
Docking message looks nice, thanks!

[Jack_Henderson]

We did some coop mining today and encountered a minor "bug", not really a bug. Still noteworthy:

Trade Window bug when coop mining
While small miners are filling a Hege, the Hege can't use the trade window function with a hauler. No ore is transferred, even though both parties can use "accept".

Reason: the amount of ore in the Hege's or the hauler's cargo space changes, which seemingly upsets the trade screen.

It can be stopped easily by telling the "filling miners" to ceas mining for the duration of the exchange.

Cannon, the coop mining feature is cool!

If you add an "autodrop all" command, that one can bind to a keystroke, then the small miners would be happy too and could create "bundles of ore" in space in preparation of haulers. If you want to avoid big numbers of floating ore, just up the cargo space of the small miners a bit. It doesn't make much difference.

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[Tabris]

Curious observation: Eversince Cannon's been tinkering with Freelancer every time I F1 somwhere and come back I somehow end up 10-20K below/above plane from where I F1'd without any known cause.

Anyone else have this issue?

[Boss]

Curious observation: Eversince Cannon's been tinkering with Freelancer every time I F1 somwhere and come back I somehow end up 10-20K below/above plane from where I F1'd without any known cause.

Anyone else have this issue?

Not that I know of, but if it's intentional, I approve.

If you disconnect, you won't log back in to a swarm of hostile NPCs/players and you'll have a moment's respite to explain.

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Just go play the game and have fun dammit.

all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.

[mwerte]

If you disconnect, you won't log back in to a swarm of hostile NPCs/players and you'll have a moment's respite to explain.

See pirate, disconnect, (hey, it was at 14k, no interaction yet!), log back in, fly away scott free.

(sun)

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