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851 days, 22 hours, 8 minutes ago

talespin

A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to...

A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to download the rst or trn files to his computer, because he'd like to work on the game offline and then upload it.

I wasn't sure of the answer; can anyone help? As far as I know, you can't do that at Nu, but maybe I'm wrong.

851 days, 21 hours, 51 minutes ago

RE: A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to...

You don't really need to, from my experience if you leave the planets browser open with the turn open, you can disconnect from the internet and do your turn offline (You will see disconnected towards the top of the screen) then later on if you still have it open, you reconnect to the internet, flick past a few planets and ships until the Disconnected disappears from the screen and it synchs the turn with the planets.nu servers.

It has worked for me when I have been in places with dodgy cell coverage, I just needed to find a place with a cell connection to hotspot the phone and open the turn in the laptops browser. Then I could lose the internet connection, do the turn offline and then later on when I was back with cell coverage, create a new hotspot and after scrolling through a few ships and planets the turn would re-synch with the servers and the disconnected would disappear from the screen and the turn instructions saved. Seemed to work okay.

851 days, 21 hours, 41 minutes ago

paudolf

RE: A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to...

Wow! could be great can play again with VPA...

851 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes ago

paudolf

RE: A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to...

Thanks @Muffit! I didn't know it and is very useful sometimes.

851 days, 20 hours, 26 minutes ago

emork the lizard king

RE: A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to...

What Muffit describes worked for me, too, on several occasions. But I don’t recommend to do a big turn this way. There's no way to save what you’ve already done if you run out of battery and all is lost if your computer/browser/the site crashes before you were able to reconnect.

851 days, 17 hours, 18 minutes ago

RE: A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to...

I just open the game and do my turn as I need to. I am often offline and I do not exit my turn until I get online. This might take up to a day. I just have to remember not to shut down the system and just hibernate/sleep.

851 days, 17 hours, 6 minutes ago

decius

RE: A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to...

It's also often recommended that if you take your turn offline, cycle through all of your ships, planets, and starbases after you're back online to make sure their orders get submitted to the server. I don't have much experience with doing this, personally, but I've heard other people claim that this helps ensure orders don't get lost.

851 days, 16 hours, 21 minutes ago

RE: A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to...

@Talespin: Someone has addressed this issue but requires using a different Client; https://github.com/stefanreuther/c2nu
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Am I the only one that remembered this being provided to us last year?

851 days, 13 hours, 17 minutes ago

qinic

RE: A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to...

But to answer the download question, as far as I understand no you cannot download it in that format, what you get is JSON data which you could manipulate and upload with the correct client (which is what @Glyn refers to) but you will not be able to use old clients.
Feel free to correct me, but that is my understanding of it.

851 days, 7 hours, 47 minutes ago

ficklid

RE: A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to...

Last summer, when all I had was a cell connection at a cottage, I tethered my phone to my laptop to complete my turn. I bet you don't want to know my data charges from that one! Wouldn't it be useful to have a connect/disconnect switch and a way to save your data so you could sync with the server all at once when you were finished your turn?

851 days, 7 hours, 17 minutes ago

RE: A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to...

When I ran my turns from an Amtrak last year, I too used a cell phone tether. When I opened a turn, I'd cycle through a bit to make sure I had all the ship graphics, and then I killed the cell. Every hour or so I'd turn it back on, do a couple more things until it reconnected, and then switch up what I was working on so I wouldn't get bored.

(Train rides are fun, but they're also not full of excitement. Well, some are, but that's not something a wise man pursues on a train, if you take my meaning.)

I did lose a couple of orders in the process, which was strange. It was random stuff, like what had been loaded on a freighter or whether a ship was moving. The pattern I noticed -- and replicated once successfully, but failed to replicate a second time -- was that not hitting OK but instead moving to another task or ship/planet/base in sequence made a missed order likely. It was also useful to continue to play for a few minutes after turning the tether back on.

851 days, 6 hours, 38 minutes ago

warhound

RE: A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to...

I do the same thing as Gnerphk when at the family cottage by the sea. stay connected for 2-3 minutes cycling through some ships, and all your orders should be uploaded.

850 days, 22 hours, 25 minutes ago

talespin

RE: A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to...

Along the same lines, are there any programs people use to work on turns or measure and play with the starmap?

I don't use addons or extra-site programs, so I need help helping the player with this. I'm looking for programs similar to Echoview. Does Echoview still work with the web-based site?

850 days, 17 hours, 33 minutes ago

RE: A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to...

@Talespin: "Does Echoview still work with the web-based site?"

No... nothing old works with Planets.Nu without using something new.

I provided you the ONE new thing that tries to make Planets.Nu backwards compatible with PCC2; https://github.com/stefanreuther/c2nu

"I'm looking for programs similar to Echoview."

PCC2; http://phost.de/~stefan/pcc2about.html

850 days, 15 hours, 51 minutes ago

RE: A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to...

@Talespin Planets Nu is based on the old Dos version.

But it is not the same program just using a DOS emulator to run the program.

So you cannot use any of the old extras from the old program and have to use the new ones.

849 days, 19 hours, 14 minutes ago

talespin

RE: A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to...

I passed on the PCC2 link to the player. I didn't think you could do the DOS stuff with Nu, but I thought I'd ask.

Thanks for your help, everyone.

849 days, 15 hours, 24 minutes ago

maitre

RE: A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to...

I frequently use the browser UI offline now, it works well, but there are a few things to be aware of. Here is what I know:

- If you end your turn while the "disconnected" message is still displayed at the top, all of your orders for that session will be lost.
- If anything causes a JS Exception to be raised, the session will be lost, along with all orders.
- One currently known way to trigger an Exception is if you try to cycle past turns using the "Time Machine" while disconnected, and the past turns weren't previously loaded. (I use TM a lot, so I got in the habit of pulling 3 or 4 old turns in before disconnecting.)
- If you are disconnected for a long time, or make a lot of orders, sometimes the App will pop an error when you reconnect, saying "client does not match server" or something along those lines. It seems like the "most recent" orders are lost, but not all of them.

SO, be prepared to replay your turn! :)

849 days, 15 hours, 12 minutes ago

RE: A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to...

Just curious, why are you all offline so often? I feel like I'm online 24/7...

849 days, 14 hours, 55 minutes ago

maitre

RE: A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to...

I ride the subway to work every weekday, there is no connectivity there. 30 minutes downtown and back is the perfect time to bang out those early to mid game turns. :D

I will admit, hauling out a giant laptop on a crowded train makes me feel like a jerk, but everyone is doing something or other, so I want to have my fun too!

849 days, 0 hours, 46 minutes ago

comcitcat

RE: A player in my MvM game is asking if there is a way to...

I am currently trying the nu to rst converter Glyn introduced. And I asked about it and got an answer from streu. Here is the part of it which might be interesting for planets.nu players:

[Quote=Streu]
However, (a) I only tested it in solo games recently. I think Quapla tested it in real games, but my last real game was in 2012 or so, before their last API changes. (b) It's a testing, proof-of-concept type program. It does not (and can not) support all features of Nu because they differ from VGAP rules and file formats a lot. The readme tells you how to try it, and you don't normally test and try on a real game first, do you?

The "real" solution to "I want a sensible client for planets.nu" will be PCC2ng. The current Milestone One can browse planets.nu and planetscentral.com, but cannot give orders and is lacking most of the graphical interface.
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From experience I wouldn't expect a working PCC2ng anytime soon. :-D