Topic: **** Squadron Commander Goes Live Tonight!!! *****

[Herr Burt]

Launch is imminent.

When I got home from work today, I decided I was being a goober.  Rather than starting and then having you download a patch for the strings, like I was going to do when I thought I'd launch on time, why not "patch" the strings now and save you guys a download?

So, I am in the middle of editing the strings file, which will allow you to see ship names rather than "?????" for every ship.  I'm about half way done.  I'll finish that up, then recompile the installer, and then put up the link for the download.

Watch this space.  I'll update this thread in a bit when the installer is ready, and then I'll announce the server going live in this thread.

-Herr Burt

[KBF-Crim]

Is it soup yet?

Is it soup yet?

Is it soup yet?

HOW BOUT NOW?

Is it soup yet?

Is it soup yet?

Is it soup yet?

Is it soup yet?

Is it soup yet?

 

[Kroma BaSyl]

hmmmmm.....soup.

[Herr Burt]

Whew!  OK, that was a lot of strings.  Now to make an installer......

-Herr Burt

[Kroma BaSyl]

Whew!  OK, that was a lot of strings.  Now to make an installer......

-Herr Burt

This is worse than waiting for plasma to charge......grrrrrr.......if it takes much longer I'll be to drunk to get it all installed correctly.

[Hexx]

Whew!  OK, that was a lot of strings.  Now to make an installer......

-Herr Burt

......grrrrrr.......if it takes much longer I'll be to drunk to get it all installed correctly.

I bet you tell someone that every night...

[Herr Burt]

I'm getting the frikkin' firewall message.

Maybe I'll just put the installer up and let you guys play on it while I figure this out.  Hold on

-Herr Burt

[KBF-Crim]

HELL YES!

er...I mean...sure...that's cool..

[Herr Burt]

Try this:

ftp://216.147.123.21/pub/SquadInstall_1.2.zip


You must unzip this into your Star Fleet Command Orion Pirated directory.  I should create a folder named SquadMaker with a lot of files in it.  Double click and use the Extract button to unzip it!  Do not drag and drop the contents from the wizard window!

Go into SquadMaker and double click on ToSquad.bat

This will install Squadron Commander on your system, making a backukp of evrything that is there now.

When you are ready to go and play something else, double clidk FromSquad.bat.  This will uninstall Squadron Commnder.

When you are ready to play again, double click ToSquad.bat.

Easy, eh?

I'm sill getting the firewall message on my game machine, so I can't tell if this all works properly yet.  Someone give it a try and let me know


*** EDIT:  THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED WITH THE WORKING INSTALLER ***
-Herr Burt

[Kroma BaSyl]

I let me on.

[Kroma BaSyl]

First mission "Scout". I see the interface, and mission starts, no ship model or starfield, but it seems to be playing. I alt'ed.

[Firehawk]

First mission "Scout". I see the interface, and mission starts, no ship model or starfield, but it seems to be playing. I alt'ed.

Samething happened to me in a patrol

[Herr Burt]

First mission "Scout". I see the interface, and mission starts, no ship model or starfield, but it seems to be playing. I alt'ed.

On my WIN2K machine, it seems to be installing just fine.

On my WIN98 machine, howevever, it doesn't create all the model folders for some reason.

Try this until I get the installer fixed:

Open SquadMaker, and you will see 19 model folders.  Drag over all the folders to highlight them, right click, and choose "copy"

Then, back out of the SquadMaker folder and go into the SqdnCmmd folder.  Right-click and choose "paste" to put all the populated folders there.

They try playing.  It should work for you now.

-Herr Burt

[alfman]

First mission "Scout". I see the interface, and mission starts, no ship model or starfield, but it seems to be playing. I alt'ed.

I got a starfield but no model. It played until I was hit by a disrupter and then it CTDed.

P.S. I saw some of the regular ships in the yard. That was one expensive G-CM, but some of these people could buy it in a week.

[Kroma BaSyl]

First mission "Scout". I see the interface, and mission starts, no ship model or starfield, but it seems to be playing. I alt'ed.

Samething happened to me in a patrol

To me in patrol as well.

Looks like the bat didn't create the directories for the models under SqdnCmmd/ The only subdir is called FMTG/

[Herr Burt]

First mission "Scout". I see the interface, and mission starts, no ship model or starfield, but it seems to be playing. I alt'ed.

Samething happened to me in a patrol

To me in patrol as well.

Looks like the bat didn't create the directories for the models under SqdnCmmd/ The only subdir is called FMTG/

Yeah, see above.  It creates the directories on my WIN2K machine (Just watched it happen.....) but not on my WIN98 machine.  (Just watched it not happen.)

It's a simple command:
copy *.* ..\..\..\SqdnCmmd\FMSTG

Not sure why it isn't working on 98.  Use my workaround for now, and I'll get you something better soon.

-Herr Burt

[Kroma BaSyl]

Just did. Logging back in now. For what it is worth, it just created the first model dir FMGT(whatever) but that dir was empty.

[Kroma BaSyl]

that fixed it

[Herr Burt]

AAAARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!

OK, I found the problem.  And the lesson is, make sure you hav the same version of your installer on both machines.

I'll have a new download up soon that will work for all new players.

Those with the old download can use the fix listed above, and will also need to do one more thing.

Go into your Assets/models folder and swap the model.siz file for the SC_model.siz file.  If you don't, you are going to see some HUGE hydran PFs.  (Save the old one, you may need it when you switch back to OP+3.4 or whatever you were using before.)

-Herr Burt

[Kroma BaSyl]

Cool....Flew a couple missions already and boy is it coooolllllll. Those suckers are fast. The Asteriod Base Assult was the bomb.

[Herr Burt]

Cool....Flew a couple missions already and boy is it coooolllllll. Those suckers are fast. The Asteriod Base Assult was the bomb.

I like that one.  I also love the StarbaseConstruction mission.  Lots of "little friends" buzzing about.

-Herr Burt

[KBF-Crim]

Less posting - more fixing!

Heh....j/k

should I go for the as is and do the fixes?..or wait for the repaired installer?

I guess the correct question is....when do you think it will be fixed...tonight or tommorrow?

[drb]

Hoi Herr Bert,

Is the installer linked above up to date now? I would like to try out your server before going to bed, so I can go full on tomorrow.

Take care

drb

[KBF-Crim]

HB...when you get yer installer fixed..start another thread...I'll sticky it for ya...

[Herr Burt]

Hoi Herr Bert,

Is the installer linked above up to date now? I would like to try out your server before going to bed, so I can go full on tomorrow.

Take care

drb

Not yet.  You can use the manual fixes I mentioned above, or give me another 10 minutes or so to get the new one uploaded.  I'll post in this thread when it is ready.

-Herr Burt

[Herr Burt]

OK!  The download link above should now include the corrected installer.

I'll get it in a new post for Crim to sticky.

-Herr Burt

[drb]

Thank you.

Take care

drb

[Herr Burt]

Crim, I have created the other trhead you suggested.  Feel free to sticky the Squadron Commander downloads post.

Thanks!

-Herr Burt

[Firehawk]

Cool....Flew a couple missions already and boy is it coooolllllll. Those suckers are fast. The Asteriod Base Assult was the bomb.

Jeez the asteroid base assault is a whole lot different when your shields can't take even a single ph4.  On the other hand it was cool watching my CenL go charging in with its 2 Cen+ and together unload 15 plas F's  

[likkerpig]

Cool....Flew a couple missions already and boy is it coooolllllll. Those suckers are fast. The Asteriod Base Assult was the bomb.

Jeez the asteroid base assault is a whole lot different when your shields can't take even a single ph4.  On the other hand it was cool watching my CenL go charging in with its 2 Cen+ and together unload 15 plas F's  

Ooooo.....
This don't sound good for the Lyrans....

[Firehawk]

Thankfully they don't pop up that often and usually have another mission choice listed when it did, but yeah I can see it being murder on the lyrans at least I could launch my plas at range 10. 

[KBF-Crim]

Crim, I have created the other trhead you suggested.  Feel free to sticky the Squadron Commander downloads post.

Thanks!

-Herr Burt

Done...

[Herr Burt]

Cool....Flew a couple missions already and boy is it coooolllllll. Those suckers are fast. The Asteriod Base Assult was the bomb.

Jeez the asteroid base assault is a whole lot different when your shields can't take even a single ph4.  On the other hand it was cool watching my CenL go charging in with its 2 Cen+ and together unload 15 plas F's  

Ooooo.....
This don't sound good for the Lyrans....

Pig:

With this in mind, I made the Lryan Fi-Cons able to be carried by the Lyran PF, and I let the Lyran carry three PFs instead of two.

Thus, you can attack with a leader, three fi-cons, and 12 ZY fighters, each armed with multiple drones.

And you've still got room in your flotilla for your independant support boat.  You can take another Bobat, and phaser version, or the "e" bobcat with with ESG.

But yeah, the Lyrans face some limitations when facing long range firepower.  That's why I tried to cut them an extra break whenever I could.

-Herr Burt

[likkerpig]

Pig:

With this in mind, I made the Lryan Fi-Cons able to be carried by the Lyran PF, and I let the Lyran carry three PFs instead of two.

Thus, you can attack with a leader, three fi-cons, and 12 ZY fighters, each armed with multiple drones.

And you've still got room in your flotilla for your independant support boat.  You can take another Bobat, and phaser version, or the "e" bobcat with with ESG.

But yeah, the Lyrans face some limitations when facing long range firepower.  That's why I tried to cut them an extra break whenever I could.

-Herr Burt

Haven't tried the asteroid base assault yet, but with the starter ship and a phaser leader, with the attendant pfs, wow! Death of a thousand paper cuts!
The ficon confused me when the fighters started popping drones, didn't realize that was supposed to happen.
Only problem I've had is jumping between the ships getting them to launch their pfs/fighters.

Good stuff HB!

[KBF-Crim]

I'm hooked....A whole new game....WELL DONE HB!!!!!

This is the kind of hack and slash server we need up  24/7...

[alfman]

I'm hooked....A whole new game....WELL DONE HB!!!!!

This is the kind of hack and slash server we need up  24/7...

I agree!

[IAF Lyrkiller]

HB, cool server, but only one thing, the server crashed before i could do a misson...

[Herr Burt]

HB, cool server, but only one thing, the server crashed before i could do a misson...

Back up!  Sorry guys, as mentioned in the "problem" thread, my ISP went down for a bit.  They seem to have their wires fixed again now.

Thanks for the kind words!

-Herr Burt

[Bonk]

Can't wait to check it out tonight!

Re: dos commands on Win98/Win2K/WinXP - to make batch files run on all I usually end up having to include the dos executables themselves in the distribution as many dos components were dropped from windows after 98... I forget now but I got so frustrated with it I just gave up on making reliable batch files and went here: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ ... I'll never go back, its really pretty easy to use and has the advantage of lzma compression (~60-70% better than maximum zip compression). I highly reccomend it. (totally free too!)

[drb]

Hoi Herr Bert,

 Had fun last night, only managed to fly a few missions before bed . Its a different game for shore, kinda like "speed starfleet" hehe, tones-o-fun though!

Take care

drb