The Queen is dead not SFB - lets get this going again

By Seth Shimansky (Kingzila) on Wednesday, September 14, 2022 - 04:23 pm: Edit

Nichelle Nichols is communicating on my WIGI Board and said our next mission is S12.

By Ginger McMurray (Gingermcmurray) on Wednesday, November 30, 2022 - 02:09 pm: Edit

It would be nice to be able to select colors for radius markers, especially when setting up gas giants with rings.

By Gregory S Flusche (Vandar) on Wednesday, November 30, 2022 - 06:19 pm: Edit

Just updated My account.. used Paypal on line card.. I hope I get a confirmation email

By Daniel Bitseff (Cadet_Stimpy) on Sunday, December 18, 2022 - 11:34 am: Edit

Hello, please log me off sfbol when you get a chance. I'm trying to log on, but it keeps saying my nickname is already in use.

Thanks!
-Cadet_Stimpy

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Sunday, December 18, 2022 - 06:24 pm: Edit

Daniel,
Done.

By Daniel Bitseff (Cadet_Stimpy) on Sunday, December 18, 2022 - 06:45 pm: Edit

I'm in! thanks Paul!

By Chad Carew (Hydranmenace) on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 - 09:39 pm: Edit

Hey Paul. I logged in for the first time in a while after resubbing. Joined one of Princetons games to observe and I saw no counters or SSDs. Did vers check, resync, check for updates. Relogging in. No go. He made a room, I joined to troubleshoot. Again no counters or SSDs in observer mode. Switched to player mode and I still could not see anything. Any idea what else I can try?

By Chad Carew (Hydranmenace) on Wednesday, December 21, 2022 - 08:29 pm: Edit

So. It looks like the client hates openjdk. Switched java 8 from java.com and counters and SSDs load. Tried to add a piece when I was in player mode and the whole client froze up though. So I can watch but I am not sure I can play..

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Thursday, December 22, 2022 - 07:48 pm: Edit

Chad,
I will check your report. My blind guess is that it is due to the version of the JDK. Because I use OpenJDK 11 with Windows and I am using the MS compilation of JDK 11 for my MacBook Pro M1

By Frank Lemay (Princeton) on Thursday, January 19, 2023 - 08:05 am: Edit

Paul,
A suggestion to implement if possible.
I am flying Hydrans, whenever I do a speed change for umpteen stingers, the 'Change Speed' button works fantastic!
Would you be able to include a couple of these great working buttons which would allow a simple entry and applied to all highlighted units?

I'm thinking of the following,
An ECM/ECCM button, this is the free EW generated by the fighter.

A lent ECM/ECCM button, this is lent from the carrier ship.

A change facing button. This would allow us to enter a new facing for a bunch of fighters.
In my game, I had 15 stingers do a HET all with the same facing. :>)

Thanks for your time!

Cheers
Frank

By Ginger McMurray (Gingermcmurray) on Thursday, January 19, 2023 - 09:18 am: Edit

For changing facing you can select all of the units on the board, right click and select move > change facing. Alternately you can select them in the unit management dialog and use the Facing To: dropdown.

By Frank Lemay (Princeton) on Friday, January 20, 2023 - 08:02 am: Edit

Heavens to morgatroy, I did not even know about the
Facing To:dropdown.
That works fantastic!

Paul, cancel my request for the Facing change button, seems you already have one in place!

Thanks.

Cheers
Frank

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Tuesday, March 14, 2023 - 11:20 pm: Edit

Hey Paul,

So the Fed TCC with G rack in a tournament room has no option to replace its ADDs with Type VI drones. Also, if you somehow accidentally delete an ADD from the rack, you don't have the option of adding one back.

Please fix with next update or so.

Thanks!

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 04:11 pm: Edit

My understanding with the Fed TCC G rack tournament ship is that it does not have the type VI drone option available in tournament.

By Johnny Casady (Phythalion) on Tuesday, May 02, 2023 - 06:10 pm: Edit

Hey Paul, updated the client. Trying to login gets me "That nickname is already in use" error.

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Wednesday, May 03, 2023 - 11:34 am: Edit

I have restarted the server. You should be good to go now.

By Frank Lemay (Princeton) on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 10:52 am: Edit

Paul,
Your latest update is fantastic!
However, any chance of making a white screen the default as opposed to the current black screen we get when we enter the bullpen and a game room.
I have tried the 'Save Current ' settings option but it is not working.

Thanks.

Cheers
Frank

By Peter Bakija (Bakija) on Tuesday, July 04, 2023 - 03:55 pm: Edit

Paul!

I downloaded the most recent update, hoping it would fix this issue, but it hasn't--the game control list of units always shows plasma torpedoes having moved 1 more hex than they actually have (if you turn on "hexes moved"). When you launch a plasma (which does not count as a hex of movement), the game control units list already shows the plasma having moved 1 hex (i.e. it counts the impulse it is launched as a hex of movement). Is this fixable? It is often confusing to opponents, or myself, and I find myself counting plasma moves on my fingers a lot.

Thanks!
-Peter

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Wednesday, July 05, 2023 - 12:23 pm: Edit

This is now resolved and will be part of the next release.

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Wednesday, August 09, 2023 - 09:38 pm: Edit

Hi Paul

I am having trouble with loading updates. I go to the Help and check for updates which opens a list that fills the screen and has no start box visible that can be clicked on to start the updates. [I have not done an update for a while, normally the list opens in a smaller window]

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Thursday, August 10, 2023 - 08:57 pm: Edit

Wayne,
Have you sent me a feedback on this so that I know the exact version of SFB Online that you are using?

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Friday, August 11, 2023 - 08:22 pm: Edit

I did try to send feedback in client, I will check to see what version I am using.

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Saturday, August 12, 2023 - 10:38 am: Edit

Hi Paul
the version I currently have is, plugin 4.1.23, and client is 4.2.17.

By Jeff Guthridge (Jeff_Guthridge) on Thursday, December 21, 2023 - 03:06 pm: Edit

Hey, Paul, I noticed an oddity with the updater.

An update was detected "plugins/sfb_campaign.jar (Version 4.0.23 Size 602714 SFB Campaign Plugin)" and after it downloaded and updated I was told I needed to restart the client. I did this and looked for updates again and this same update appeared.

I looked in the client folder on my SSD and discovered the file pointed to appears to have been updated (shows a datestamp of today about when I updated and windows says the file is 588k).

Its a .jar file so I can't debug it for you, but could the updates manifest have a typo in the versioning index such that it reports the update as a version higher than inside the .jar file?

for reference, here is the top part of the about window:
====
SFB Online Client: The Client for all online SFU Games
Version 4.5.2

Plugin Versions:
F & E: 0.9.14
Federation Commander (Duel): 1.0.10
Federation Commander: 1.0.74
Star Fleet Armada (Nova Edition): 1.0.2
Star Fleet Armada: 1.0.2
Star Fleet Battles (Cadet): 4.1.1
Star Fleet Battles (Tournament): 4.0.34
Star Fleet Battles Campaign: 4.0.23
Star Fleet Battles: 4.1.36
Star Fleet Marines: 0.5.6

Java Version = 11.0.14
====End

It shows it has the correct version number for campaigns, but still wants to update that plugin.