2020-04-13 Assorted Bugs, Account Status

[Haxus]

Account Status
It would be nice to see my account expiration time and status in the game and to be able to buy more time there. This is essential for the Steam version.

The Bio(F8) window now has an Account page to view the current status of your login account. There is a button to open your web browser at the Accounts page of the Hazeron.com web site. Login there to buy more time using PayPal.

Unfortunately, the PayPal buttons require a complex conversation with the PayPal servers that is beyond the scope of what I want to do inside Shores of Hazeron. It is more than just opening a link.

The Steam version will conduct the conversation with the Steam servers without leaving the game. That is part of the Steam API.

Due to the nature of this change, players are now permitted to login to the game when their account is expired. Avatars are extremely limited in what they can do on an expired account. Messages inform you when this is the case.

These are the specific limitations when your login account is expired:

• You cannot create a new empire.
  
• You can only communicate on the Voice channel.
  
• You cannot alter a mission.
  
• You cannot publish or unpublish blueprints.
  
• You cannot conduct diplomacy.
  
• You cannot construct or demolish buildings, roads or fences.
  

System Transition Bug
On sytem transition the ship changes direction and reverts to 0m/s.

Fixed.

Server Crashes
There have been a number of server crashes this week.

I traced and fixed some of them, which reduced the frequency of crashes a lot. They are not all fixed; I'm monitoring them and tracing them as I can.

Server Monitor
The Server Monitor is a program I use to keep watch over the SoH servers. Server monitor no longer notices when a server is deadlocked. Due to the etherium change, the status poll of the server monitor program no longer hangs if an atom manager thread is deadlocked.

Created a test that tells the status poll when an atom manager thread is deadlocked.

Export Star Map Broken
Star map exporter no longer includes system information.

Fixed.

Star Map Search Broken
Star map resource search window no longer works.

Fixed.

[Deantwo]

Account Status
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Due to the nature of this change, players are now permitted to login to the game when their account is expired. Avatars are extremely limited in what they can do on an expired account. Messages inform you when this is the case.

These are the specific limitations when your login account is expired:

• You cannot create a new empire.
  
• You can only communicate on the Voice channel.
  
• You cannot alter a mission.
  
• You cannot publish or unpublish blueprints.
  
• You cannot conduct diplomacy.
  
• You cannot construct or demolish buildings, roads or fences.
  

This is an interesting change.
Not sure if more limitations are needed. Maybe allowing communication on the Help channel wouldn't be a bad idea. But I guess we'll have to see how it works.

[Apollo]

The fixes are much appreciated. Thank's Haxus.

[Xantheose]

Nice, we can create grief accounts now

[resonkinetic]

Nice, we can create grief accounts now

[Haxus]

In what way can you cause grief with such an account?

[AnrDaemon]

Run around, screaming?

[Snowmantis]

We seem to be back to an old bug with the star map:

Star Map Search Broken (I search on Cryo at 200+ and it keeps searching indefinitely (I have no cryo over 200). Since there is no indication that search is actually doing anything, clicking on the Search button a second time crashes the client)


Export Star Map Broken
Star map exporter no longer includes system information.

[Rockinsince87]

Run around, screaming?

I burst out laughing when I read this. I was thinking the same thing.