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Jeff,
I will take a look at that. That means the local version number and the remote are different. That might be a mistake by me.

By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Friday, December 22, 2023 - 01:36 am: Edit

I have a custom made map overlay (lots of stars, very pretty) Would be nice if that could be saved along with all the other settings.

By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Tuesday, January 09, 2024 - 08:25 pm: Edit

Paul, are there hot keys for movement? If not what do i need to map on a hotkey program?
I need the movement button functions of the game control, but not the control itself. (its in the way)

By Frank Lemay (Princeton) on Saturday, July 20, 2024 - 06:51 pm: Edit

Paul,
Whenever I check for an update, I keep getting the same update offered.

Just an FYI.

Cheers
Frank

By David Jannke (Bigslowtarget) on Thursday, July 25, 2024 - 10:35 pm: Edit

Is the "Everyones' EA is visible" thing a widely known issue and we hold to the honor system or is it a bug? I've sent feedback a couple of times and posted on the twitch stream today but Paul hasn't said anything so I don't know if it is trivial or just not getting to him.

It isn't a big deal to me because I play with people who wouldn't do it during the game but it would seem to be important for tourneys and such. Of course it might not work there too, I haven't checked.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Friday, July 26, 2024 - 10:25 am: Edit

I play tourney all the time - haven't seen this as an issue. Sometimes, accidentally, someone reveals their EA. Like once in a blue moon. Happening all the time in tournament ships? Not happening there anyway unless something has changed in the last couple days.

By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Friday, July 26, 2024 - 08:06 pm: Edit

David, it may be that the Feedback email link is broken. You can try reach him on discord https://discord.gg/YEKTXnJh
His callsign is Franz Games

By David Jannke (Bigslowtarget) on Friday, July 26, 2024 - 11:24 pm: Edit

Oh, I didn't mean it was doing it by itself, I meant you can see anyone's EA in any game if you follow a certain set of steps. I just didn't know if this is a bug/feature that people have known about forever or something new that I just tripped over.

I did check it and it worked fine with a tournament game Matt was playing JFF.

Thanks for reminding me about discord, I messaged him there.

By Seth Shimansky (Kingzila) on Monday, July 29, 2024 - 08:55 pm: Edit

Paul I mailed you a check & it was returned for wrong address?

what is the mailing address to you.

please email it to
kingzila@aol.com

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Monday, July 29, 2024 - 09:17 pm: Edit

Done

By David Jannke (Bigslowtarget) on Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 02:54 pm: Edit

Thanks Paul! Looks like that update fixed the "anyone can export your ships and so see your EA" exploit.

To everyone: I'm not sure if people running the old version can still export ships they don't own so if EA privacy matters to you check the version. I did notice you need to switch from default observer to player mode in the new version to load a game each time you start a game.

The export/import is actually a really handy feature for setting up drone loadouts and first turn EA and then saving them for each ship you regularly run. It has saved me lots of time with big Kzinti fleets.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 03:43 pm: Edit

I knew that Seth was reading my mind a little too much!!

By Ronald J. Brimeyer (Captainron) on Sunday, December 22, 2024 - 11:51 am: Edit

Paul, I have noticed that none of the double shuttle bay ships have this on their SSDs online. I have had a player in the past claim without the double shuttle bay on the SSD I not launch 2 shuttles at a time. Even with it in the tournament rules. Is there a way to correct this?

By Frank Lemay (Princeton) on Thursday, December 26, 2024 - 01:44 pm: Edit

Ronald,
When a ship has 2 shuttle bays, there should be a shuttle bay on 1 side of the ship and another on the other side.
When we started building the 3G version, we may have missed a ship or 2.

So if you know of a ship that does not have this configuration, please let us know and we will get to fixing it asap.

Thanks.

Cheers
Frank

By Justin Royter (Metaldog) on Friday, March 14, 2025 - 01:14 pm: Edit

Paul installed the client at work, updated the library but I cannot see the 3rg gen ssds and only have numerid ssd and defualt counters for SFB. Any ideas?

By Justin Royter (Metaldog) on Sunday, April 06, 2025 - 04:46 pm: Edit

Paul still having issue where my opponents ssd's are blacked out, ALL of the fields on EVERY SSD is blacked out, tried everything. Un-install and re-installed, re-synced, nothing.

By Justin Royter (Metaldog) on Sunday, July 27, 2025 - 11:22 pm: Edit

Paul just letting you know one of the reasons I no longer wish to play sfb on the sfobl client is b/c over the last year or so it has become so unstable and unusable that it literally ruined my fun and made me have to stop playing at least 2 battles in the recent past b/c we just could not do basic things like see each others ssds or get graphical ssds to display, really basic •••• has been broken with the client for some time now.

Again today I just tried to watch a fleet battle but after dlin the library I could not see graphical ssds AGAIN. Its just not worth the time to wade thru the crazy amount of bugs that seem to be never ending over the last year or so, I have never seen the client so buggy and literally un-usable in 25 years.

No idea why seems to me it would get easier to use not become impossible to do basic ••••, like add peices and see ssds. wow! no thank you. The hassles around basic functionality literally made me lose interest and cost me a couple of really fun potential battles.

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Monday, July 28, 2025 - 09:33 pm: Edit

Justin,
Just to let you know. The reason you get Text-based SSDs is that your account expired over a month ago so you are basically using a Demo account.

When it comes to the issues with the client, I have been frustrated too with the 3rd party library that I relied on for communicating with different players. I finally gave up on the more up to date versions of the library where there seem to be issues which are hard to duplicate outside the client and inside the client only under certain circumstances.

That part of the client will not change in the future. Sorry to see you go. Have a Happy Life.

By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Wednesday, August 06, 2025 - 08:40 pm: Edit

Paul Franz

I just purchased 1 year for SFB online.
renewing my account

Did it on the company store.

By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Thursday, August 07, 2025 - 06:13 pm: Edit

I uninstalled and reinstalled as per the e-mail Now I am just waiting for confirmation of account

By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Thursday, August 07, 2025 - 06:14 pm: Edit

Vandar shagrat1960@gmail.com

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Thursday, August 07, 2025 - 07:01 pm: Edit

Greg,
Sorry. Just saw that this morning. I will activate the account right now.

By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Friday, August 08, 2025 - 04:20 pm: Edit

And You did. was not expecting it that fast. was just giving You a heads up.

Thank You for all Your hard work on making it possible to play online.

By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Saturday, August 09, 2025 - 07:40 pm: Edit

why are the lines real light and thin on the EA form? Is there a way to make them thicker?

By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Monday, August 18, 2025 - 06:48 pm: Edit

I have a request.

Is it possible to add a cloaked decoy counter for Romulan ships.

!. add a second ship of the type launching the decoy.

2 add the decoy counter. Like a ESG counter. A line stating which counter is the real ship. A line for movement plot possible set for 4 turns. It should have a line for speed. (Speed changes can be written in by turn). Followed by the self-destruct turn Imp can be written in.

I know not something a lot of people would want still as a Romulan I want it.

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Monday, August 18, 2025 - 08:48 pm: Edit

Greg,
Sounds like you would like to have me do two things:
1. A simple option in the game to create a clone of the current ship.
2. Add an additional attribute to a ship to denote whether it is a decoy or not.

Do I have that correct?

By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Tuesday, August 19, 2025 - 05:45 pm: Edit

Not really a clone. As a ship of the type can just be added at that time.

What is needed is a counter. Like the Lyran ESG counter that is placed on the board. That the player can then put in which of the ships is the decoy. The movement plot and speed of the decoy. With three lines for 3 turns of movement. (128 impulses) With a spot of when it self-destructs.

When I play face to face I just wright down all of that on a piece of paper and set it out. The counter would be just doing that.