Paul, funny ting about the IA window; it happen regularly that it won't accept typing, and force me to cancel it and then bring it up again.
This happened to da when I fought Jason, and use the IA to "call for fire" in the disdev step.

By Richard Sherman (Rich) on Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 11:54 pm: Edit

Paul,

Found another big bug for the Federation.

Federation CLC has no photons listed in weapons list or available for firing in IA window. Additionally, CLC appears to have 4 extra A-drone racks in addition to her 2 G-racks.

Confirmed by both me and Jon Berry that CLC was loaded, not NCS.

By Kerry E Mullan (Nomad17) on Friday, August 14, 2009 - 08:08 am: Edit

As well Paul,

For the P2 table/chart in SFBONLINE is it correct? Notably on the large number of SSDs I have it states for P2 that from R16-30 the P2 does 1 damage with both a roll of 1 or 2.

The chart in SFBONLINE has this range stop at R22 and then switch to 1 damage only on a roll of 1. Can this be updated? Or are all my tables incorrect on the printed SSDs?

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Friday, August 14, 2009 - 04:33 pm: Edit

Richard,
I will check the ships.

Kerry,
What version of the client are you running? Because that should have been fixed in the last update a few weeks ago.

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Friday, August 14, 2009 - 04:47 pm: Edit

Richard,
The Fed CLC is now fixed and posted to the library.

By Richard Sherman (Rich) on Friday, August 14, 2009 - 05:39 pm: Edit

Thanks, Paul.

By Jon Berry (Laz_Longsmith) on Friday, August 14, 2009 - 06:01 pm: Edit

Paul - Tachyon Beams on the Maghadim FF (don't know about other ships) don't have Normal/Overload in the firing mode dropbox during weapons fire.

By Stephen McCann (Moose) on Sunday, August 23, 2009 - 03:41 pm: Edit

Paul when I attempt to auto-update the client I get the following message: "Error occurred while downloading. null". How do I resololve this? Do I need to maually update each time the program updates?

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Sunday, August 23, 2009 - 06:24 pm: Edit

My guess is that you are running Vista. If that is the case, you need to give the client Adminstrative access.

By Barry Kirk (Barrykirk) on Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 04:07 pm: Edit

Couple of issues...

1)On my linux box, I'm not getting any audio beep's when people private message me and the window is hidden. I've got the beep in inactive chat checked and the volume is turned on so those aren't the issues.

2) On my win XP box, sometimes, I don't see any names. Not even myself in the Piece List/Game Control window.

This is an issue that comes and goes.

By John Smith (Johnsmith) on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 06:24 am: Edit

The Helgardian CL shows the scout SSD. There is no CL SSD on SFBOL that I can find.

By Peter Thoenen (Eol) on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 12:56 pm: Edit

John: That's on me and I lost all my original def's. Wont' have a time to update E2 SSD's for another couple months, prob Decemberish time frame.

By Jon Berry (Laz_Longsmith) on Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 05:57 pm: Edit

Paul; On Magellanic vessels (the Baduvai and the Maghadim), the Mass Driver weapon systems are hit on Phaser damage points, rather than Drone damage points.

By Patrick Hill (Dread_Lord) on Sunday, October 18, 2009 - 03:24 pm: Edit

when I try to export the campaign map for the new FCOL campaign as an image I get the following error:

java.awt.AWTException (Too many colors)

Not a big deal as I can export it as a SVG file, but still could be a nice to have.

By Marcus J. Giegerich (Marcusg) on Monday, December 07, 2009 - 09:53 am: Edit

I was playing a game yesterday and suddenly everything I typed in the text window was right aligned. While just mildly annoying, a bigger issue is that any punctuation I would type would appear in front of my text. So, if I typed

"Did you move your shuttle?"

it would appear as

"?Did you move your shuttle"

all the way to the right in the text window. The text would appear normally in the chat area right below the map when I hit the enter key. Any idea what may have caused that?

By Peter Thoenen (Eol) on Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 09:10 am: Edit

Paul:

Any chance you can get H&R's to show on multiple lines. It seem's to work when doing more than one ship (see below) but not for the first ship (which is normal):

H&R Raids against: D5A Retainer
SFG #1 (FA) (Guarded): Roll 2 (BP Destroyed)SFG Hit #1 (FA) (Guarded): Roll 6 (Conduct H&R) H&R Roll 3 (System Undamaged & BP Destroyed)


H&R Raids against: D5A Retainer
Drone-A #2 : H&R Roll 6 (System Undamaged & BP Returns)
Drone-A #3 : H&R Roll 5 (System Undamaged & BP Destroyed)
Drone-A #4 : H&R Roll 4 (System Undamaged & BP Destroyed)
ADD-12 #1 (Guarded): Roll 4 (BP Returns)

By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 11:24 am: Edit

Paul, a minor thing;
1. my opponent initiated IA.
2. I had a speed change (deccell) but considered cancel it (make a speedplot change). I did so.
3. While I did the change the client refused to let me 'execute' the it! It complained I had to select an 'action' first.
4. I pressed the "no activity" button to close the window, rather than cancel it. This because I guess the later would also cancel my new speed plot.
5. My opponent fire weapons at me This was quite a surprise until I retraced the step above.

By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 11:43 am: Edit

PAUL, it is really annoying that when you make a new speed plot during the turn, the old one disappear. It make it TOTALLY impossible to correct errors. (including checking to see if you paid enough rsp for it)

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 03:10 pm: Edit

Peter,
That has to do with the result of the Guarded roll. I have fixed the problem and it will be included in the next update.

Carl,
I know that one is hard to understand. (i.e. it is not intuitive) But when you change the speed plot (i.e. press Ok) it is immediately changed. To no matter what the speed plot is applied. So it needs to be considered separate from the IA selected. So after you did changed the speed plot to cancel the speed change. The IA window does not see any action. Now, if there if there is something you plan on doing later you need to think of it at that point and select the proper segment and type the order or select the appropriate action.

When it comes to the new speed plot during the turn overwriting the old speed plot that is because it overwrites it. Now, if you want to see the original speed plot it is saved as part of the EA. Now, I know that is not convenient when you make errors. So I will look into giving and option to show the initial speed plot in the speed plot window. Now, when it comes to knowing the cost after changing it. IIRC, you requested it being outputted to the chat window after you change it. I hope to add that.

By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 05:04 pm: Edit

Paul, another one; if I open IA and cancel it, then the client refuses me to get back to that step. I
I had DisDev step up for C4F and cancelled it. THen the client refused to let me got to that step again, and I had to go dirctly to fire step.

By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 06:23 pm: Edit

Paul, I got the impression changing a speedplot during the turn also overwrote the one in the EA form. But I may got that wrong.

By Richard Sherman (Rich) on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 11:23 pm: Edit

Paul

Repeated error/bug with latest version. The new "storage" screen for drones gets wiped out every time a previously saved game is reloaded.

This has been basically disastrous for me in two different battles, both of which involved carriers, and one of which involved a drone ship.

By David Cheng (Davec) on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 03:55 pm: Edit

Hello Paul,

Big problem.

I updated to the most recent client today. Was playing earlier in the day with no problems, except for a lost connection which was restored without any ill effects (that I could tell).

Now that I have updated, I can no longer access the SFBOL application. I double-click on the icon as usual, it appears in my task bar for like half a second, and then disappears.

I have never encountered anything like this problem before.

I have been running SFBOL for years on my
Mac PowerPC Dual G5
OS 10.4.11

I reboot computer, not just SFBOL, and still not working.

Please help,
-DC

By Carl-Magnus Carlsson (Hardcore) on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 10:17 am: Edit

u sure u are not running Vista?

By David Cheng (Davec) on Monday, February 01, 2010 - 03:24 pm: Edit

Never!
Once you go Mac, you never go back!