Thanks Frank- that helps. I found and re-read it all and agree with you. It's unfortunate I think that it is impossible to determine what the pseudo speed is going to be for either ship prior to establishing the link unless you see speed 31. Maybe I am missing something but there is no way to be sure is there?

By Frank Lemay (Princeton) on Thursday, September 22, 2022 - 12:37 pm: Edit

Jack,
Correct, there is no way to tell if the other ship is using impulse power until you actually tractor it.
Best to be prepared in the event it is using impulse and it is not the pseudo speed you want.

Cheers
Frank

By Daniel Bitseff (Cadet_Stimpy) on Friday, January 06, 2023 - 10:16 pm: Edit

Windows just auto-updated on my computer, and now when I login to sfbol, the game list window doesn't come up & I can't find it anywhere. I can still start a new game, however.

By Geoffrey Clark (Spartan) on Saturday, January 07, 2023 - 09:09 am: Edit

Stimp, get a mac!

By Jeff Guthridge (Jeff_Guthridge) on Saturday, January 07, 2023 - 01:13 pm: Edit

That might be a spicy take there Spartan…

Stimpy, Try right clicking on the task bar button for SFBOL and seeing if that brings up the windows your missing. Its likely the display coordinates got mangled in the update and Windows is trying to display the window several thousand pixels out of bounds.

By Daniel Bitseff (Cadet_Stimpy) on Saturday, January 07, 2023 - 07:23 pm: Edit

Thanks Jeff,

There's just the single window. When I right-click on taskbar, it just has "SFU_Online_Client", "Unpin from Taskbar", and "Close All Windows"

I have had stuff pop up out of bounds before, so know what you're talking about. Doesn't seem to be the case here.

I'll poke around & see if I can roll back this Windows update I didn't ask for.

By Daniel Bitseff (Cadet_Stimpy) on Saturday, January 07, 2023 - 08:45 pm: Edit

I just tried all options on "troubleshoot compatibility" and nothing helped.

By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Saturday, January 07, 2023 - 10:02 pm: Edit

Delete SFBOL and reload from scratch. You will lose all saved games and such. That should fix the problem.

By Daniel Bitseff (Cadet_Stimpy) on Saturday, January 07, 2023 - 11:32 pm: Edit

Thanks Gregory, that fixed it!

Note (for anyone else that runs into this issue):
Uninstall/Reinstall alone does NOT fix it, you need to also actually delete SFU_Online_Client folder from Users\{you}\AppData\Local

By Frank Lemay (Princeton) on Sunday, January 08, 2023 - 09:15 am: Edit

I'm curious.
Would loading all your saved games into a zip folder, attach to an email and send it to yourself.

Do what Daniel did and then put all the saved games from the email back into the new folder of saved games work?

Cheers
Frank

By Daniel Bitseff (Cadet_Stimpy) on Sunday, January 08, 2023 - 01:32 pm: Edit

I already had my save games in a different folder, so I didn't lose any.

I also made a backup of the userinfo.properties file, because it looked possibly important. I didn't end up re-adding it though, in case some setting there was the source of the issue.

By Daniel Bitseff (Cadet_Stimpy) on Sunday, January 08, 2023 - 01:36 pm: Edit

oh, another bug report -- I noticed my password was stored in plain text in that file (userinfo.properties). I suspect the workaround here is to uncheck the "save password" box on login?

By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Sunday, January 08, 2023 - 01:38 pm: Edit

Had that same problem a while back. Was thinking what I did. Glad that it fixed it.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Monday, March 27, 2023 - 05:50 pm: Edit

Paul - I see an update is available but I can not
install it. I see a long list of items in update
dialog box. It is so long I am unable to get down to the update button and can't move dialog box enough to get to it.

By Frank Lemay (Princeton) on Monday, March 27, 2023 - 09:41 pm: Edit

Paul, I just uploaded the new update and played with it a bit.

2 things.

1-Why the dark black screen?
I see you have separated impulse moves and orders with a space, neat idea!

2-Fantastic job with making it so much easier to adjust fighters EW/Speed and facing.
Flying Hydrans is now a snap and I suspect so will flying the Kzintis with all their drones.

Thanks so much!

Cheers
Frank

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 12:29 pm: Edit

I got around my problem loading the update by scaling back the size of the text on my screen. All good.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 12:31 pm: Edit

I notice right away that the top menu has changed.
I don't remember everything that used to be there but cannot see the dice monitor any longer.

Probably the best thing that can happen for my blood pressure so no big loss if it is intentional.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Friday, March 31, 2023 - 08:05 pm: Edit

Hey Paul - I have played 2 games with the new movement tracking. I like it! Is there a way to turn it off if you don't want it? How about a way to see all moves of the whole game instead of just the last 20'ish. Ideally, seeing the last 20 moves would be good during the game but then also being able to see all moves of the game after the game for analysis would be great. Whatever you can or want to do.

Bigger problem - when you drag things across the map it adds a line between the original spot of the piece and the new piece. So for Web- most people put the web somewhere on the map and then drag it where they want it to be for real. When that is done a line is drawn between the 2 hexes for each hex of web. Also, same thing is happening for TM and slip markers. Also, If both tournament ships start in the same hex, when one is dragged to the right spot it adds a line all across the map. I would suggest tracking only ships and fighters and maybe only ships that move only once. Personally I think tracking shuttles is unneccesary . Thanks, Jack

By Frank Lemay (Princeton) on Saturday, April 01, 2023 - 08:41 am: Edit

Jack,
To remove the 'Trails ' of a ship, go to
Board,
Board Settings,
Click the 'Show Trails' option.
The trails will disappear.

If this option is unchecked, you will see the trails.

As for the Bigger problem, not sure how to handle that one other than unclick the Trail option.

Cheers
Frank

By Frank Lemay (Princeton) on Saturday, April 01, 2023 - 10:03 pm: Edit

Paul,
Someone showed me how to change the screen color.
I thought it was part of your update, but I am mistaken.
All is fine!
Thanks.

Cheers
Frank

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Saturday, June 10, 2023 - 08:44 pm: Edit

Paul, I am getting a user id already in use message when trying to log in. Been going on over an hour that I have known about it. Thanks.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Monday, July 17, 2023 - 09:46 pm: Edit

Not sure this is a bug - may be an enhancement. I have seen 2 games in 2 weeks where one player accidentally revealed their EA form. I think it has happened and neither player realized it at the time. I think they are revealing drones but have their ship highlighted.

All the players involved out here I believe don't want that advantage and do not want to see the form but there shouldn't be the temptation. I am thinking we need a way to unreveal the EA form if someone wants to. I am not aware of any way to do that.

By Andy Koch (Droid) on Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - 11:32 am: Edit

Moose did that in our match.

By Jack Taylor (Jtaylor) on Thursday, September 28, 2023 - 05:37 pm: Edit

Hey Paul - I am getting an error message that says I am already logged in and it has persisted for at least half an hour. I have not logged in all day. I did update my registration about a week ago if that could have anything to do with it. Thank you.

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Thursday, November 02, 2023 - 08:46 pm: Edit

So here is a thing I have run into with the most recent client, and can't for the life of me figure out how to fix.

Somehow, at some point, I managed to move my main game window (i.e. map and chat box, and control bar, etc.) out of the main SFBOL window, slightly to the North West, such that the top of the window and left side of the window are pushed out of the main SFBOL window, covering up the left edge of the window (which is annoying, but doesn't effect functionality), and the top chunk of the window is concealed by being out of the window. I can just barely see the Log, Notes, Weapon Status, etc. buttons and hit them (but they are very difficult to read). And conveniently, when I try to move the window from the top, the control bar (dice, synchronize button, weapon chart button, etc.) detaches and moves freely about the window, so I can put it somewhere useable.

But I can't move my main game window back to a reasonable place. I can grab the corner and make it bigger or smaller (which does not help). I just can't actually grab the window anywhere that lets me move it again. This isn't preventing me from playing a game. But it is *super* annoying, and I'd really like to be able to fix this.

Any ideas?

I tried to reinstall the client, but I did that, opened it up, and the window was in the same place. I can't find any options or controls that let me recenter the game window or something. I got nothing here.