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1636 days, 10 hours, 34 minutes ago

I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

I could use a little testing help...

I'm working on a fix for the bug where you can intercept a ship at your location, and set a long waypoint to break a tow without moving. Essentially, it locks your waypoint to your target ship when you set intercept. It seems to work OK, but I haven't been able to look at all the possible interactions with towing, chunneling, HYPing, people not doing things the way I expect, etc...

So if anyone has time this weekend to play around with it and see if I broke anything, I would appreciate it. Just log into test.planets.nu to try it out.

Note: Since this is code in development, I would recommend only trying it in finished games or games you don't care about.

Thanks!

1636 days, 10 hours, 3 minutes ago

challengespaceyard

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

Fortunately, I have a blitz game that is "finished" (rather, I froze it as soon as the opponent dropped due to missing turns) so I was able to do a little testing.

Looks good so far, but this is only scratching the surface, since I am neither a HYP nor chunnel race

1636 days, 8 hours, 11 minutes ago

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

Hey BB,

I am on a break for a while but wished to congratulate you on joining Nu. Strong work already with the edit button and working on this fix. I am glad to hear it has been deemed a bug as it can hurt the cloaking races pretty seriously. Indeed, I think I recall putting in a contact for this recently and possibly even a uservoice. It great to see these issues being addressed (not to mention feedback along the way). Keep up the good work

Cheers,

MEGA

1636 days, 8 hours, 10 minutes ago

emork the lizard king

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

I have a big turn to do tomorrow morning with FCC and hyperjumpers. I'll do it on the test site. Any special things to try out?

1636 days, 8 hours, 8 minutes ago

emork the lizard king

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

I should add that it's an already won game so it doesn't matter if the one or other command goes wrong because of code in test.

1636 days, 7 hours, 56 minutes ago

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

@Big+Beefer : I can run all kinds of tests for you using my Garfield Sector.

http://play.planets.nu/#/sector/78898

I followed the thread where this bug was confirmed and have experienced it twice in total.

You set the ship to Intercept at Warp 9 any other ship at the same location... then you manually give that ship a bogus far waypoint.

It needs to invalidate the users manual waypoint if the ship has a valid Intercept mission, that is what needs a fixin.

I have loads of probes and can test the method where you simply HYPjump a ship to the same location, and also with Fireclouds.

Except where I brought this bug up once... kinda glad we've been quiet about its existence.

1636 days, 7 hours, 38 minutes ago

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

@Big_Beefer: Ok, manually entering false Intercept waypoint is definitely fixed, and I LOVE how you did it.

Have to wait up to 66 hours to get results on the HYPjumping to same location method.

1636 days, 7 hours, 29 minutes ago

emork the lizard king

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

Glyn >> Have to wait up to 66 hours to get results on the HYPjumping to same location method.

Which I hope still works.

1636 days, 7 hours, 17 minutes ago

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@Emork: This is one of those things I'd go with whatever VGAP3 had.. the HYPjumping version is not overpowered and kinda cool.

If it wasn't in VGAP3, then it has to be ripped out of Classic mode...

...keeping it for Campaign mode is acceptable, if the Emperor wishes it so.

(> ^_^ )>

1636 days, 5 hours, 41 minutes ago

peso

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

Wait, how do i get to test it out? Like how do i get on Www.Test.Planet.Nu.com?

1636 days, 5 hours, 3 minutes ago

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

@Peso: Go to http://test.planets.nu and login. If you use scripts, some may not be setup to function on that specific url address, just a heads up.

1636 days, 3 hours, 38 minutes ago

peso

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

Oh ok, danke!

1635 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes ago

emork the lizard king

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

Made a big turn on the testsite and didn't notice clientside glitches.

Nice message on the locked waypoint, Big Beefer.

1635 days, 3 hours, 17 minutes ago

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@Big+Beefer: Bad news, I've managed to circumvent your dialog box and set a valid Intercept mission with a phony long-distance waypoint.

I want to see if my circumvention actually functions properly once the Turn runs before you nullify my circumvention method... will explain on Monday.

1635 days, 2 hours, 40 minutes ago

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

@glyn, it's not so bad. There is a server side component to enforce this as well. It will reset your mission if you send down a waypoint not equal to your target's position... I just haven't released it yet because I want to make sure the UI side is good first.

So if you have to use scripts or take other steps outside of the normal UI functions to circumvent it, no big deal.

1634 days, 22 hours, 3 minutes ago

nebulon

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

I am playing a game where my short/normal intercept failed. The ship I was intercepting turned and went to where I was starting from, and I ended up where it was. I don't believe I've seen this happen before. History shows intercept was set.

1634 days, 21 hours, 52 minutes ago

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

@Big+Beefer: Alright, played Turn 211 from test.planets.nu, Garfield Sector; http://play.planets.nu/#/sector/78898

-Ship#340 being Towed by TowerShip#406 set to Intercept Probe#419 HYPjumping to 3ly East of Ship#340/TowerShip#406/Planet#478. Turn 212 Ship#240 broke tow-lock and slid in WarpWell (greater than Warp1) to planet after using some fuel in attempt to reach Probe 3-ly away.

-TowerShip#392 setup to tow Ship#292. Ship#292 set to Intercept Ship#359 at same location. Then I gave Ship#292 a long-waypoint and pick reset mission in dialog box, then used Improved Ship List plugin to change mission back to Intercept, the target is preserved from before... then I hit End Turn and exited.

Turn 212 Ship#392 broke tow-lock by doing the above. In the Time Machine I can see the phony waypoint and correct Intercept mission were preserved... however not the waypoint LINE, but the circles created by the Improved Movement Indicators plugin.

1634 days, 21 hours, 44 minutes ago

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

@Nebulon what you describe could happen if the ship you intercepted had a higher ID and it was also intercepting some other ship.

In this case your ship would move first to the enemy ship, then the enemy ship would move away.

1634 days, 21 hours, 42 minutes ago

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@Nebulon: Was it a valid Intercept mission? Does the Mission say "Try to intercept" or "Intercept ship XXX:XXXXXX XXXXX". Is this ship XXX still visible? Confirm in Time Machine again, your problem is reported as a bug often and has never turned out to be a bug.

1634 days, 21 hours, 29 minutes ago

nebulon

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

@GLYN
Mission was (pasted)
Intercept ship 240: FALCON CLASS ESCORT

1634 days, 20 hours, 27 minutes ago

rkious

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

was your warp speed set to something greater than 0 ? Did you have fuel?

1634 days, 20 hours, 8 minutes ago

nebulon

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

Yes, I swapped places with it, distance traveled = 42.4. The Falcon attacked another of my ships while I intercepted where it was.

1634 days, 19 hours, 52 minutes ago

rkious

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

bug solved without code change :)

1634 days, 19 hours, 48 minutes ago

nebulon

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

Related possible bug -not OP bug ... I should have still intercepted it

1634 days, 19 hours, 40 minutes ago

rkious

RE: I could use a little testing help... I'm working on a fix...

You have his ID as 240 . If your ship that was trying to intercept with is a lower ID then You would have moved to his spot then he would have moved to the ship he was trying to intercept. Lower Id ship moves first then the next ect.