Topic: SFCX: TECH WARS Is Live!

[jdmckinney]

Though I had to remove a small group of the novelty Evil Dave missions due to apparent bugs, everything seems in order. All players will need the OP Plus Refit Shiplist (and ftrlist.txt) v2.1c and the latest Evil Dave OP Mission Pack. Both are available at SFCX.org.

Please wipe your feet on the welcome mat and make sure your weapons are primed. Happy hunting!

Welcome to Tech Wars, an SFCX campaign on Orion Pirates.

[jdmckinney]

So far, so good. We had a minor server burp, but missions are going well. Shipyards are producing pretty good (saw up to a dozen ships in ISC yard regularly). There were 7 other players of various races on when I left, and others had been on earlier.

I'm done for the night, but if you see something that needs attention, post a note so Castrin can see it.

Happy flying.

[Cleaven]

Are L-PFE's supposed to cost 466? Ouch!  

[Kurok]

 Been running great so far. Been HAving a blast with these missions.
 Kurok  

[jimmi7769]

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Are L-PFE's supposed to cost 466? Ouch!  

Yeah, thats what they cost me on Badlands.  Better conserve them like they're made of Gold....cause they are.

[Cleaven]

Okay then, I can deal.  

[jdmckinney]

I'll look into the PF costs.

By the way, server had gone down sometime while I was asleep. It's back up now.

[Cleaven]

Actually it's been up for the last 6 hours, but I just lost connection about 20 min ago. Then it came up again after a min.  

[Hondo_8]

Tried out last night for the first time, but I encountered several problems maybe.

I flew as a Fed, co-oped with a hydran, and three succesfull missions and no change to the DV.

Ran a solo mission in a LC and drafted two HC One of the Heavies was pretty decked out (one of the new Klinks foret its name) Seemed a little two tuff, or It could have been my rust showing.

second mission in a FFGR drafted one Heavy Cruiser and a Frigate, had a Hydran frigate as an ally,. I blew up by what must have been a collision with an invisable astroid.


The misssions I was co-oping were drafted by a hydran frigate and that frigate was drafting in two Frigates, so It made me wonder about me pulling in ships two classes bigger then me.  Had fun though Excpet for the invisable astriod.

[jdmckinney]

Neutral coop is still, and will be for the foreseeable future, a quirky thing. It will sometimes work, but mostly will not. As for the difficulty of the matchups, that could be a result of you being high in a BPV range where the enemy doesn't have much close to you other than those bigger ships. Try a different front against another enemy, and see what you get against them.

I still can't get into the server remotely, so if it's not up, hopefully Castrin will be back to look in on it soon.

[Cleaven]

Some extra info.

Logged on as Lyran, and started running co-op with the only Klingon.
I was drafting in my FF.
DV was dropping and PP was accumulating in hex,10,10.
DV was low but stopped dropping. What the hell, one more time.  
Draft again into Fleet mission but get host left new host, bugger.
Never mind this will be quick play it through.
Come out of mission. I get forfeit (no surprise), and DV drops and flips to Klingon.
Is there no justice (it was a 50 DV hex)?    

[IndyShark]

Tech Wars may be live but the server is down. Nomad, can you give the server a shove please? Thanks!

 

[Dharma the Cat]

I seem to have some problem with the missionpacks for OP. Started on Badlands, now on the TECHWARS server, it works fine for anywhere for 15 minutes to an hour or so, then my computer totally locks up, can't do anything but shut down the power and restart. Only happens with these missionpacks on OP, never had any problem before playing EAW or OP. Any ideas about why/what the problem is? Thanks...
 

[Cleaven]

Well I heard that on Sat too, from somebody who was saying they couldn't move or anything (chat worked), but the rest of us were okay.

I'm running XP Pro. Maybe there is a leak somewhere?  

[KBF-Dogmatix]

I haven't experienced this issue.  The one time I heard people talking about not being able to move, the server crashed shortly thereafter.  


I was on last night when it went down.  It hasn't gone back up since, either.  Tis a shame..i load loads of playing time, today.  


I've experienced normal operation on Tech Wars without any problems other than the server crashing every so often.



 

[KBF-Dogmatix]

I wish someone would bloody reboot the Tech Wars server so I could continue my quest for a C7.  Damnit...  

[jdmckinney]

Very sorry about the downtime, but I absolutely cannot access the server. Until Castrin is home to fix it, we're out of luck.

As for the problem reported, we'll need more data on that. I've not had any problems with the mission pack, either. If it's related to the server, I wonder if something is causing the server kit to crash? Too soon to know.

[KBF-Dogmatix]

Now where did I put my Capt. Castrin voodoo doll...?   Hmm....



 

[IndyShark]

Augh! My D7W is a lot of fun! I forgot how much I love playing Klingon! Disruptors, phasers, transporters, scatterpacks, drones and .....Oh yeah!,  glass sheilds! Now I remember! hehe

Dogmatix, which CA do you like the best? D7W or DWC? Is there another I should check out?

[KBF-Dogmatix]

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Augh! My D7W is a lot of fun! I forgot how much I love playing Klingon! Disruptors, phasers, transporters, scatterpacks, drones and .....Oh yeah!,  glass sheilds! Now I remember! hehe

Dogmatix, which CA do you like the best? D7W or DWC? Is there another I should check out?  

IF i'm going to fly a D7 hull..and I rarely do....the D7W is the best of the lot.  The DWC is on the D5 hull, and to me..clearly the best of that line is the D5L.  Best power curve by far....and pretty well-armed, to boot...