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[D.B.Cooper]

IS update Wednesday 16 August 2006 stable for play,or is it for test only?And I heard that august update will have toggle for generating items based on char lvl.How to use this?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

The Wednesday 16 August is more-or-less stable, but there are still some highly annoying bugs left. The worst is probably the <a href="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=8011" target="_blank">Ghost Ships</a> bug.

The items being linked to the characters level is on by default, so you don't have to do anything yourself except install the update.

 

[backrow]

Ahoy all!

First of all, great work lads! you made a game that i haven't played for ages so much better! I wish i registered when i first had a look at this site, way back when POTC came out.

But now to my question: what's in the August 21 update? i'm wondering since my game is pretty stable at the moment, apart from odd Ghost Ship encounter and minor bugs...
what does it consist of? i couldn't find a readme.

Thanks in advance

PS do i just unpack it to POTC folder or should i also run .bat file?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

If you use the 16 August update at the moment, you won't need to run any bat files. There is a changelist for the 21 August update <a href="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=5586&view=findpost&p=158945" target="_blank">here</a>. Unfortunately there's one gamekilling bug in there caused by a typo. Fix is attached to this post.

 

[backrow]

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If you use the 16 August update at the moment, you won't need to run any bat files. There is a changelist for the 21 August update <a href="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=5586&view=findpost&p=158945" target="_blank">here</a>. Unfortunately there's one gamekilling bug in there caused by a typo. Fix is attached to this post.
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Thanks a lot Pieter, that helps a lot!

 

[Long John]

hey, pieter, i hope that you can once again help me... I extracted the 21-8 update unto my old files... and then it came up with an abnormal program termination... it works if i copy the old files unto the program (so i effectively am running a 16-8 update)...

system.log :

Scanning modules\
Loading modules...
Loaded 0
Reset...
Initializing CORE...
Creating atoms space: 128
done
initializing complete
User Rised Exception
C:\PROJECTS\DRIVE_V2\ENGINE\SOURCES\Core.cpp line 526
fail to create program

error.log:

COMPILE ERROR - file: sea_ai\ShipWalk.c; line: 34
can't load file: sea_ai\walk\Manowar3_walk_walk.c

i cant understand those logfiles, since my computerskills matches those of seaweed

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Get ShipWalkFix.zip three posts up. That'll fix it. Sorry for this.

 

[Captain Hawk]

<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hi.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":gday" border="0" alt="hi.gif" /> Long John
Look at Pieters post above, you can download a fix for you problem there. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
DOWNLOADED FILE GOES TO program\sea_ai folder replace ShipWalk.c file with the fixed one. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/poet.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":hmm" border="0" alt="poet.gif" />
Hope this helps <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

 

[Long John]

just did... still abnormal program termination...

error.log:

COMPILE ERROR - file: sea_ai\ShipWalk.c; line: 34
can't load file: sea_ai\walk\Manowar3_walk_walk.c

system.log:

Scanning modules\
Loading modules...
Loaded 0
Reset...
Initializing CORE...
Creating atoms space: 128
done
initializing complete
User Rised Exception
C:\PROJECTS\DRIVE_V2\ENGINE\SOURCES\Core.cpp line 526
fail to create program

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Open sea_ai\ShipWalk.c and replace "Manowar3_walk_walk.c" with "Manowar3_walk.c".

 

[Long John]

HUZZAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!

it worked... thanks alot!!!! have you found a way to sort the ghost ships bug by the way????

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Not yet. It is being worked on though. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/yes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="yes.gif" />

 

[backrow]

quick question mate, after installing both 21aug update and the fix now the game crashes randomly when trying to quicksave, entering town from port etc... any ideas what might be the cause of that?

 

[backrow]

ok, i am also discussing this problem in another topic, but i'll post error log here as well just in case

error log (after repatching up to 21.08)
RUNTIME ERROR - file: interface\save_load.c; line: 630
no memory
RUNTIME ERROR - file: interface\save_load.c; line: 351
missed attribute: savenameconfirm
RUNTIME ERROR - file: interface\save_load.c; line: 351
no rAP data
RUNTIME ERROR - file: seadogs.c; line: 764
invalid index 530 [size:530]

i get CTD every time i save or autosave plus possible CTD when i change locations

 

[Long John]

I keep having this problem too....

What does it mean?

<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/modding.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="modding.gif" />