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Support => Technical Help: IN GAME bugs (after loading world) => Topic started by: Xypher Orion on January 16, 2005, 11:04:41 am

Title: (Devs) Updater code update suggestion
Post by: Xypher Orion on January 16, 2005, 11:04:41 am

At the moment, i\'m seeing lots of people not being able to update, including myself. The game looks to be quite the quality product. However, The Updater seems to be missing a few useful debug/troubleshooting features, just a few suggestions that could make n00b and dev life easier:

Example:
I start the updater, it  says hello,  so i click update.
Couldn\'t connect to mirror Laanx.
switching mirror...

and then it \"downloads\" something, not telling me what it is, it reaches 100%, and sits there.

It would likely be helpful if the updater first pings the server its trying to connect to, reports the latency, then tries to download from it.



Another thing, more important, have a backup copy of the updater server running when updating the main backup server, so that people can still download the previous update, IE: N00bs, so that we can experience your hard work, instead of grumbling for an indeterminate amount of time that we can\'t even update, while we see other people connected to the server.


One question as well...
My friend and I both downloaded PS at about the same time, me on WinXP, him on OSX.

We both downloaded the \"version 15\", he installed, and could play right away, while i\'m waiting patiently for the update server to return. I noticed that the version the installer placed on my hard drive is not in fact 15, but 14, when the installer clearly says 15. PLEASE keep your executable packages straight (>.< )

Kind regards, and keep up the great work. I myself am attempting an MMO game, (hopefully commercial, but for now its just whatever) with a team of *sigh* four. We\'re trying to break away from the normal vision of an MMO game...

Thanks again,
Xypher

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Post by: Xypher Orion on January 16, 2005, 11:34:58 am

Sorry, not v15, 3.005, you probably figured that out though...
Oy...had my face buried in the Ogre3D source too long @.@

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Post by: Androgos on January 16, 2005, 11:49:39 am

That\'s just the application title, the thing is 0.3.005, the next version will have the titlebar updated however and the text mirrored in the loginscreen if you\'re in Fullscreen.

Regarding the updater, I will see what I can do.
I have some things pending there I will try to implement

Greetings

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Post by: zenix on January 16, 2005, 11:53:01 am

i have the same problem but have no idea what you just said it switches mirror from laanx it says fragnetics is there but i can\'t download from there, unsure if you can. its a shame because this is exactly what i\'ve been looking for and now it dont work

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Post by: Xypher Orion on January 16, 2005, 01:39:21 pm

thanks for the quick reply, and i\'m glad I can help :)