Supreme Cmdr

The ladies wanted to see Garfield, so they went in to see that and I decided to go see White Chicks (since I've seen pretty much everything else). I didn't go in expecting anything but silliness, gags and tired old fart jokes. It delivers all that and more. I kid you not, I was laughing from start to finish. The Wayans brothers are just, well, crazy. This movie is so funny, that even when it gets corny every now and then, you can't help but laugh. Truly hilarious stuff in the realm of the American Pie movies. 8/10

Just go see it. 'nuff said. This is the most brilliant thriller I have seen in a long, long time. The ending WILL surprise you. Truly. 10/10

quote: Originally posted by UnderLord: UPGRADES...how do i upgrade my armor and other things i bought the armor but the upgrade button is still not highlighted....argh help me out please =) Its not the most asked question because its quite clearly described in the manual.

Thanks, I will look into it. How did you beam yourself down to the planet with a cargo pod? I mean, how did you get the items into the pod? And was your AE and the cargo items transfered to the transporter and beamed down at the same time?

I don't care WHAT people say, if it was the patch, it would affect all servers. And since the servers are all identically configured, that simply can't be it. And since there is nothing in that patch which would cause it, thats not it either otherwise it would have been happening since the patch was released. If its not working as you would expect, don't play it. I can't fix what I can't reproduce - and multiplayer experiences will be different for everyone. And since I download and check the server logs EVERYDAY, unless you have some supa sekret society where you all get together and talk about it, I no such indication of everyone as you stated. One or two people != everyone. Please don't post about tech support issues in this thread again. If you have a definite and 100% reproducible problem that is not already logged, you know where to post it. This is an announcement thread, not a tech support discussion thread.

quote: Originally posted by Remo Williams: I'll be on server 1 this afternoon checking out a few issues if anyone is interested. Get a grip. The general public don't have access to that server.

quote: Originally posted by Mrxknown: quote:Originally posted by Shingen: If'n I'm banned again for whatever reason, I'll still play the damn game! Yeah, well these people will have a much harder time trying to play the game without patches. Banning has nothing to do with access to tech support or patches. Being banned just means you can't access the domain and/or forums. You can still send email to tech support and download patches from other mirrors that have them.

I have reset all the servers and also lowered the sensitivity on ServerDoc because that may be what is causing the strange problems. As for that NPC in hyperspace problem, I have yet to fix it since I can't reliably reproduce it. SERVER 2/3 are now running in console mode. SERVER 1/4 are running in graphics mode. This will help isolate the problem with NPCs in hyperspace to see if it is an anomaly with the graphics server. I also set ServerDoc to restart the servers every 24hrs (from now).

The MFB does not have guns. It only has turrets and usually you have no manual control over turrets, though some units (e.g. naval units) allow it. The MFB has ATA missiles and you fire them just as you would in a fighter. This will be your FINAL warning to quit hijacking other people's threads.

quote: Originally posted by Ditto00: Sc, I am getting a CTD when I try to pick up cargo pods with a MFB. Is that supported? Is it supposed to work with any of the vehicles? Dunno how you are even able to do it, but it is supported in all vehicles, though the MFB is a special case unit. Is the MFB the only vehicle that is causing a problem? If so, then it could be a problem in the ASSETS.INI file. What steps are you using to do this and do you have a saved game to send in? Try this and let me know the results. [*]Backup up your DATAASSETS.INI file located in the game install folder. e.g. copy it to ASSETS.BAK [*]Download and unzip this ASSETS.INI file (with folders) into your game folder. When prompted to replace the existing file, do it. [*]Now try the same game again and see if it still crashes. [*]If it does crash, then try it with a new game and reproduce the steps you used in attempting to collect cargo with that unit.

quote: Originally posted by Ditto00: Sc, I am getting a CTD when I try to pick up cargo pods with a MFB. Is that supported? Is it supposed to work with any of the vehicles? If you attempt hijack another thread again, you will be smacked. I have created a new topic for this.

whoa!!!!! Wody, where the HELL have you been?!?!

quote: Originally posted by Ditto00: (still have saved game if you want to investigate) There's nothing to investigate. The cloak status is not saved in the saved game. So when you restore, the system notices that something needs to be cloaked, it will re-cloak it.

quote: Originally posted by Shingen: Any ETA on the next patch? UC MP isn't working too well with the current one. No ETA but I plan another release before the end of July. quote: Originally posted by Cmdr Chavik: I agree. LOTS of server disconnects. Nothing I can do about that as this wasn't a problem before and I see no reason why it would - all of a sudden - be a problem now.

OMG!!!

Awesome!!!! Interplay is back!! I knew Herve could pull it off!!!! Fallout MMO here I come /me funmbling for credit card

If you look at his first email, just look at the tone. So, even though he was told to return it (note his original threat), he still got the tech support responses. And besides, that error message is a direct indication that the game was installed and/or patched improperly. [ 07-02-2004, 05:18 PM: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

ouch

quote: Originally posted by street: I think you just answered your own question; he sure did Now he has NO choice but to uninstall, kill the game folder and start from scratch. Just think, he could've saved all that trouble by just adhering to what is CLEARLY posted in the FAQ and right there on the game downloads page. Maybe I should kill his profile, just for making me type this up? Yeah, I'm going to do just that. Now, he has to not only re-install and patch the game from scratch, he also has to re-register if he ever wants to post here again. Thats what you get for wasting my time.

quote: Originally posted by street: Me thinks: (daddy?)has gotten, a wee bit, concerned, and is attempting to defuse his responsibility cocerning what was said........or (Junior?) is playing games, as to who's who. I'm going with a combination of both. Regardless of whether its the "child" or the "dad", either way, they're definitely worried. And, knowing what I know, they have every right to be. I don't play around.

quote: Originally posted by mentis: I just threw it on my desktop I'm not even going to respond to that. Anyway, I have added the checksum for the patch file to the first post in this thread.

I just dug up the original email the "dad" (LOL!!) was refering to in his first contact missive above. Here is it, complete with headers. =========== Delivered-To: galcom-3000ad:[email protected] X-Envelope-To: [email protected] Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 03:23:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Troy Willig Subject: Tech Support To: [email protected] X-Spam-Filtered: d326419afd31d64e37ddbcb04596936e X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=3.5 tests=BAYES_00 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Level: ERROR MESSAGE PROBLEMS: MFS_INIT Failed To Obtain: RESLIB1A.RES Please Advise or the game gets returned! Troy [email protected] ===== Troy Willig / Willig Piano Services A-1 Piano Service and Sales AAA Piano Services Service>316-554-1764 Tunings>316-788-5844 [email protected] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail =========== And the subsequent reply (which includes the canned tech support response anyone who sends email to that address, gets. ============ Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 06:26:58 -0400 To: Troy Willig From: Tech Support Subject: Re: Tech Support At 06:23 AM 6/30/2004, you wrote: ERROR MESSAGE PROBLEMS: MFS_INIT Failed To Obtain: RESLIB1A.RES Please Advise or the game gets returned! Thats nice. Go ahead, return it. Please read these.... __________________________________________________________________________ If you are looking for the Universal Combat tutorial, it is contained in the latest patch available on our website downloads page (see below). If you have Universal Combat and when you run it you are getting a message that your card does not have a Vertex Shader, please read this forum thread as well as the game troubleshooting FAQ. If you have debugger or emulation software detected or similar error after applying a game patch, please read this forum thread. __________________________________________________________________________ If you need game patches They are available on our website downloads page If you need game tech support Read the game FAQ on the website downloads page or check our discussion forums __________________________________________________________________________ ============

A few mins ago, this went over to Lisa who forwarded it to me. ================= Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 08:01:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Troy Willig Subject: Re: Apology from the father of 'Clint'. To: Biz Thank You Lisa... …and again please relay to everybody involved that the slurs will not happen ever again in either of the two parties emails. As well, please let all who read the emails and were offended by such know about our sides’ deepest regret that this happened and our sides’ personal apologies to you and your staff for having to take the time out of your busy days to handle this problem. I assure you though that after *researching* your emails this way and the return emails sent your way that this could have been avoided from your very first email to my child. My child took it personally when the response to the problem with the game email'ed back from you guys basically included a 'We don't care' within it. It is my belief that had your people handled this situation a little bit better and been a little more concerned about standing behind your product this would have never happened. My child asked a simple question of your staff and basically got blown-off by them. ***That is not to say that my child had the right to write any emails that escaped the true problem or use profanity when writing such.*** However, I do believe that this issue, with the emails, is now resolved and I also expect there to be no more raunchy emails, by either party. This game will be returned to the store and hopefully my child will never by a game again that causes such a problem! In addition: With respect to your support people; may I say that they need a refresher course in why they are there and the proper writing of emails (such as the ones in question) back to the customer. I concluded that concern is something that was clearly lacking in your emails. Both sides of this issue are clear-cut. #1. Your staff... should have taken care of the problem rather than blowing off the customer who spent their money for your benefit. #2. The customer... who feels that he was not served in a courteous manner should never stoop to the level of some in our society who represent so few. They should never go tit-for-tat with someone as well. (Example: you did this, so we did this, so you did that and so we did that…etc.) Like two year olds. I know that this situation got way out of hand and was not handled, by either party, in a professional manner. But our side does apologize for our part in this matter! Thanks, Troy Willig P.S. I also expect someday that the black community will eventually stop using the N-word themselves. I'm sure that, as a thinking adult, you probably wish this as well and are tired of hearing blacks demean themselves with such words in print, by mouth or in song. Once this word is removed from the mainstream context it will only take a few years before its not cool, for either side, to use such a word, or an offshoot of the word, (example: niggaz) anymore. The N-word is way too prevalent in today’s society, white AND black. ------------------------------------------------------ ===== Troy Willig / Willig Piano Services A-1 Piano Service and Sales AAA Piano Services Service>316-554-1764 Tunings>316-788-5844 [email protected] =================

I'm not even going to go into any lenghty detail since I can't spend any more time on this. But, read these and draw your own conclusions. We got no less than eleven emails from this creep, and his "dad". I can't imagine how this fool hasn't figured out yet that the "....my son, the retard, did it, not me" excuse died a long time ago and that ISPs are all too hip to it already. These are in chronological order and where duplicated (e.g. one email was sent to no less than three @3000ad.com accounts), I only list the first one. ============ Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 17:40:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Troy Willig Subject: Re: Tech Support To: Webmaster Another TYPICAL response from a bunch of low-life NIGGERS. Do NOT contact me again or I will consider it HARASSMENT. Jizz it... Jozz it... JOOD! (Ebonics for Get it... Got it... GOOD!) Bottom line: Your Software SUCKS. You need to find another line of laziness. And I will not back down from my stance that had I known that it was a ni**er that made this product, and from past experience with ni**ers, I would have NEVER even thought about buying this program. Your race bring these kinds of responses upon themselves because of their constant whining among other self-degrading methods of "affirmative retr-action". Too bad you are you! I pity all of you and your race that you cannot just go out get a job and actually work for what you get! AND back up your crappy product IF you decide to produce software like rabbits! Lats, C PS. Oh, Yeah... You missed by an astronomical unit (AU) when you said the midwest and earthlink. So try again dipshits! |Hey man, | |we know who you are. We've seen, catalogued and forwarded your racist |remarks to the authorities. And if I were you, I would stop sending emails |of this nature. Especially since we have sent all your emails and |forum posts to Yahoo (you violate their TOS), your ISP (midwest.net, |now owned by earthlink.net) ============ Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 17:48:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Troy Willig Subject: If you wish an apology then I expect an apology first. To: Webmaster And remember... I tried to be nice in the beginning about this matter and you guys sent me a return email calling me a "...NAZI..." and a "...cracker...". So, I can always pass that email onto the authorities as well. TRY ME! I am taking the game back to the store and I will not be contending with your lame products ever again. This email now ends our disagreement and I expect you to stop sending me nasty emails as well!!! If you wish an apology then I expect an apology first. LATS, C ============ Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 18:13:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Troy Willig Subject: An apology from the father of 'Clint'. To: [email protected] May I start out by saying that I had no idea that this was going on and had I known I would have, of-course, been very upset before today and definitely would have stopped the activity in its tracks. Please accept my apologies on behalf of myself and my child. My child was not brought up in an atmosphere of hatred and I do not understand this behavior and do not condone it either. As prevelent as racism can be nowadays I strongly believe that this was just my child testing you to see if a response would be made in kind. I do not believe that my kid is a racist and I will make absolutely for sure that it never even gets a foothold in this house. Please accept my apology as well as 'Clints' apology for the behavior. It will not happen again, Sirs. Thank you, Troy Willig [email protected] ===== Troy Willig / Willig Piano Services A-1 Piano Service and Sales AAA Piano Services Service>316-554-1764 Tunings>316-788-5844 [email protected] ============ Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 18:55:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Troy Willig Subject: Re: An apology from the father of 'Clint'. To: Webmaster I won't explain in too much length but I walked in on my child tonight and there appeared to be something wrong. So I asked and my child told me what was happening. This after a very short period of pressuring. Believe me this email address is mine and I had no idea that this was happening. I bought this game for my child. I am and this situation is for real. Also, I do understand the need for you guys to send this on to Yahoo and I do not blame you for doing so. However I do not understand the thing about the > http://www.wewontpay.com/who.html and the other > > http://www.wewontpay.com/pl37.html.. Does this mean you want me to pay you for the wrong doing? I don't understand, sorry. Troy Also, Please allow me ask you to please send these apologies to Yahoo in addition to any of the other emails in question that you intend to send or have sent. So that they may respond to me and not to my child about this matter. Thank you --- Webmaster wrote: Sorry, but I am not the one handling this. I was just told to filter all these messages and send them along (with headers) to our legal folks. You can contact them at [email protected] as I believe they have already been in contact with Yahoo as well as the primary ISP that your "son" uses to access the Internet. If you are indeed his father (yeah, we've heard that one before, no really - and so have the ISPs), then how could not be aware of these two links? http://www.wewontpay.com/who.html http://www.wewontpay.com/pl37.html And how is he using your email address? And how did you come to find out about this harrassment? In fact, right now, I see three more emails he sent this evening. Oddly enough, this one I am replying to, came in shortly after his latest masterpiece. He sent them at 8:48pm. And yours came in at 9:14PM. Why don't you check your outbox and see for yourself. Webmaster 3000AD Inc ============ Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:29:05 -0700 To: Webmaster Subject: Re: Abuse of Yahoo TOS and harrassment (KMM14127664V53316L0KM) From: Yahoo!Mail Reply-To: Yahoo!Mail Hello, Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Mail. In this particular case, we have taken appropriate action against the Yahoo! account in question, as per our Terms of Service (TOS). For further details about the Yahoo! TOS, you can visit: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Please know that Yahoo! is unable to disclose the action taken on another user's account with a third party. We are not able to make exceptions to this rule. Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer Care. Regards, Anna Yahoo! Customer Care http://www.yahoo.com/ ============

I have updated the fleet db so that the mission zone fields (in the user profile) are reflective of the possible start locations (when joining a server). I also added the mission zone, region and alliance info to each field so that it is clearer. All alliance/fleet leaders need to check the profile of each of their members and ensure that they have the correct start locations based on their fleet designated assignments.