has this happened to you while pwarp photoning in a beta game?
enemy hits fig, pwarp photon engaged, fires adjacent, misses.
enemy warps into sector with planet, lands on planet, kills shields, atmosphere cannon fires, pods enemy, enemy pod lands and is transported back to home sector BEFORE atmosphere cannon destroys pod.
It seemed to me to be a timing error in the game.
It is a beta game with 30k sectors.
This was i believe an interesting strategy implemented by a good player... but don't see how it should have happened that way.
cc bee... out

hmmm... looking at the screen cap now... it seems as though my planet did not have shields (although i swear there were 200 shields)

this is the screen cap with the trader name removed:

Deployed Fighters Report Sector 237: Enemy Privateer entered sector.
Deployed Fighters Report Sector 237: Enemy is attacking!
Enemy destroyed 1 of your fighters in sector 237

Citadel command (?=help) P

<Planetary TransWarp Drive>

What sector do you want to warp this planet to? (Q to Abort) 396
Sector 396 is 21 hops away from here.
Locating beam pinpointed, TransWarp Locked.
All Systems Ready, shall we engage? Yes

Citadel command (?=help) C

Computer command [TL=00:00:00]:[396] (?=Help)? P
You have 5 Photon Missiles left.

Enemy warps into the sector.
Deployed Fighters Report Sector 396: Enemy Privateer entered sector.
Your fighters in sector 396 lost 1 attacking Enemy

Do you wish to launch one ? YYes
This sector (396) has warps to sector(s) : 237 - 3032

Launch a Photon Missile into which sector? (Q to quit) 237

The Photon Missile Detonation rocks your ship as the waves beat upon your
shields. Your sensors fail momentarily, but then return. The Photon Wave
is in effect, make ready to invade!

Photon Missile launched into sector 237

Photon Wave Duration : 5 seconds in sector 237

Computer command [TL=00:00:00]:[396] (?=Help)? Q

<Computer deactivated>

Citadel treasury contains 1,531 credits.
Enemy deploys some fighters.

Citadel command (?=help)

Sub-space radio (16934): [<ENTER> for multiple lines]

' OZ Improved Fast Foton Fired - Sector -> 237!

Message sent on sub-space channel 16934.

Photon Wave Duration has ended in sector 237
Quasar Cannon on . blasted Enemy for 44704 points (atmos)
Quasar Cannon on . DESTROYED Enemy
Enemy ship just exploded into a brilliant fireball!
Enemy warps out of the sector.

Citadel command (?=help) P

<Planetary TransWarp Drive>

What sector do you want to warp this planet to? (Q to Abort) 7728
Sector 7728 is 24 hops away from here.
Locating beam pinpointed, TransWarp Locked.
All Systems Ready, shall we engage? Yes

-=-=-=- Planetary TransWarp Drive Engaged! -=-=-=-
Planet is now in sector 7728

Citadel treasury contains 1,531 credits.
Citadel command (?=help)
8:41:34 PM


Sect 7728³Turns 1,254³Creds 59,156³Figs 40,000³Shlds 0³Hlds 200³Ore 200³Org 0
Equ 0³Col 0³Phot 4³Armd 0³Lmpt 0³GTorp 0³TWarp 2³Clks 0³Beacns 0³AtmDt 0
Crbo 0³EPrb 0³MDis 0³PsPrb No³PlScn No³LRS Holo³Aln 1,171³Exp 401³Corp 2
Ship 4 HavGun

Enemy ship just exploded into a brilliant fireball!

Citadel command (?=help) S

<Scan Sector>

Sector : 7728 in uncharted space.
Planets : (H) .
(K) .
(O) Brolicous
(O) Bronta
Fighters: 30,000 (belong to your Corp) [Defensive]
NavHaz : 1% (Space Debris/Asteroids)
Warps to Sector(s) : 1882 - 2830

Seems like the enemy set this up... photon under one sector, attack adjacent fig, retreat back and attack that fig, try to land on arriving planet and ride shields back to my home base.

Yes, that's a bug that we had during HHT. It should now
be fixed. Where are you playing this at? If not classic,
then they need to upgrade to the newest beta. If classic,
then it needs reported to JP as still present.

If not classic, this is why people running betas should be
signed up for the beta w/ JP to ensure they receive the
updates.

True but JP moved the location where he was upping the beta, have not had one in quite a while. Holidays and all it is understandable.

i play so many games, at times i attribute an occurance to the wrong game. This is such a time.
It was not a beta game.
It was in Ultimate O (pirates game)
but i guess that does not change the bug use, and that is what i had to come to understand.
thanks Sing, for helping out as usual.
cc bee... out

Are you on the official beta TWGS list?

If so, email or msg him.

I think the bug has been around for a while, but I
don't think it was that noticeable until the beta.
When I ran into it, it wasn't done intentionally. It
was just hitting the "l" key to land, and finding
that I didn't pod out until I got passed the pause.

There's a post on it in the beta forum somewhere.

That is because people were handing out the link to unapproved testers

If they were, the joke was on the sysops, because there isn't a version that is even close to stable at this point. Everyone is reverting back to the old software, including me after the ICE tourney is in progress. The only one I passed out the beta software to was Rev, and that was solely because the ice tourney was supposed to be held there and it would have been nice if there was a stable version, but as you can see that didn't work out.

Yes I am on the official list for the beta, unless for some reason I was removed.


Don't know about any handing out of the link, this is the first I have heard of it.


The version I am running does not appear to be having any issues, so not "everyone" is reverting.

Msg JP then and get an update?



Or not?

Yea I posted in another area, and if there are issues none are being reported and that's why I used the word "appear". I know things might be happening that are not reported I play a test game on mine once in a while to check on things.