[epiar-devel] Further testing with 0.5.0++

Mon Jun 27 11:38:11 PDT 2011

yes, I left autoload on, it is faster to get into the game.

How about hitting "c" to open a command list AND pause the game?  And include a comment there about how to turn on/off autoload? Obviously the user manual will include the full set of commands, when it gets written.

Ok, so I'm too cheap to buy a better ship.  Some of us just like to suffer <g>...

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It sounds to me like you're still auto loading to skip the main menu.  This is one of the options in the first option tab.

The point of this mode is fast access to epiar, so it opens and closes without needing intermittent steps like clicking options.  It might be worth adding a message somewhere that would make it easier to figure out what's going on and how to disable it.

Shouldn't the shuttle be painful to use so that players want to upgrade?

Yes, p pauses still.  Obviously Epiar needs a better way to discover the commands.

~Matt

On Jun 27, 2011, at 10:58 AM, TWP Marketing <markettwp at yahoo.com> wrote:

Got it, logging working now.  "?" does bring up the options menu, thanks.
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>I'll watch the version number and see if it updates to the correct version.
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>Re testing, I can't get the same problem, i.e., missions disappearing, to occur now, but I'll watch for it in the future.
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>Really need faster rotation speed on the sprite (shuttle), Yawn...
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>ESC does not pause the game, it ends it.  First ESC should pause, and then a second ESC would end the game.  
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>I think the 'P' key does the pause now?
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>If this file says 0.4.2, then I don't think it's the same file that you're loading from.  I think that Epiar is loading out of the DATADIR (wherever that is).  On the other hand, these options match the settings that you're describing.
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>The option that you would want to set would be options/log/xml .  You can also turn this on from the command line via --log-xml I think.
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>The reason that you are skipping the menu is because
> <automatic-load>1</automatic-load>
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>I think that it might be worth adding a --reset-options command line flag.
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>You should still be able to reach the options by hitting '?'.
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>On Jun 27, 2011, at 9:51 AM, TWP Marketing <markettwp at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>This is the options.xml file which is driving my version:
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>>1) I do NOT have access to this from the playing screens.  The Options menu disappeared when I pulled the last fetch from github: master.  I did get the changes in code up to 6/26/11 but the menu options disappeared on startup and the game goes right into play mode at the last landing site (saved at that time).
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>>2) The version is still set to 0.4.2, but my code is 0.5.0++.  Which means that it is not being checked and rewritten on each run.
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>>3) Which of the log options should I activate to give you useful information: (note that option "out" is already active). I can set these manually by editing the xml.
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>><?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
>><options>
>>  <version-major>0</version-major>
>>  <version-minor>4</version-minor>
>>  <version-macro>2</version-macro>
>>  <log>
>>    <xml>0</xml>
>>    <out>1</out>
>>    <alert>0</alert>
>>    <ui>0</ui>
>>    <sprites>0</sprites>
>>  </log>
>>  <video>
>>    <w>1024</w>
>>    <h>768</h>
>>    <bpp>32</bpp>
>>    <fullscreen>0</fullscreen>
>>    <fps>60</fps>
>>  </video>
>>  <sound>
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 <musicvolume>0.5</musicvolume>
>>    <soundvolume>0.5</soundvolume>
>>    <background>1</background>
>>    <weapons>1</weapons>
>>    <engines>1</engines>
>>    <explosions>1</explosions>
>>    <buttons>1</buttons>
>>  </sound>
>>  <simulation>
>>    <starfield-density>750</starfield-density>
>>    <automatic-load>1</automatic-load>
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>    <random-universe>0</random-universe>
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 <random-seed>0</random-seed>
>>  </simulation>
>>  <timing>
>>    <screen-swap>250</screen-swap>
>>    <mouse-fade>500</mouse-fade>
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 <target-zoom>500</target-zoom>
>>    <alert-drop>3500</alert-drop>
>>    <alert-fade>2500</alert-fade>
>>  </timing>
>>  <development>
>>    <ships-worldmap>0</ships-worldmap>
>>    <debug-ai>0</debug-ai>
>>    <debug-ui>0</debug-ui>
>>  </development>
>></options>
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>>There's an option to save the logs to XML. But a pipe from
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>>On Jun 26, 2011, at 4:42 PM, TWP Marketing <markettwp at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>Unfortunately, no logs for that session.  How do I turn on console logging to a file? Pipe from ./epiar ?
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>>>Do you still have the console logs?  If a mission fails to load properly, it might abandoned.  This has happened in the past when there's a bug in a mission.
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>>>On Jun 26, 2011, at 3:59 PM, TWP Marketing <markettwp at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>I have lost a mission after dying.  I had two missions, which were displayed in the player info window. I moved to Outpost 11, automatically recovered a second artifact, left the Output 11, was shot down and on restart, one mission was gone...
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>>>> I'll try to confirm this with further testing.
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