Error Messages on server

[Mit]

Note to all world owners :

If you ever get any messages displayed in the System Tab, 'Error Messages' section, please could you post the exact text of the error message here.

Cheers

[leigon]

Ive got loads ile edit this post when i get home in about 2 hours...

[Magicfinger]

biplane in last 24 hours....

Garunteed message buffer overflow

and

Player now owns more than max buildings (that would be me )

[zaroba]

i remember seeing tons of the "Player now owns more then max buildings" error, even when nobody did. maybe it also considers jehovah a player.

[Mit]

The "Player now owns more than max buildings" message has been fixed in 42.3 (it was actually using the old hardcoded value for max buildings from way back when, rather than the value set in settings). If it shows in 42.3 or higher then something is perhaps astray..

[leigon]

I like how the server thinks

[Mit]

i think that message is, um, indicating something went, um, wrong with the FTP upload.

If its all the time (and your stats never upload) ya might wanna recheck your ftp paths and login details? (Tho i may well have broke it adding that extra space for usernames etc)
If its just occasional, it prolly just means the ftp destination is temporarily unreachable.. happens on mine occasionally.

[hedgehog]

**** Server bank account remove failure - Account num 0,

**** No goods list slot located for production item

[hedgehog]

0> 6-4-2005 19:08:22 fhko now owns more than max buildings

lots of

0> [timestamp] guaranteed message buffer overflow

[zaroba]

not in the error field, but annoying to see anyway:

tons and tons of:
Coulden't locate town marker ID: ####

i've seen numbers as high as 1885

[Hammerhands]

You were made redundant from (No cash available to pay your wages)
there are 0 buildings on map
A town already exists with this name
there are 0 towns on planet

[zaroba]

those are normal messages that are seen in-game

first one means your getting fired from the job due to the building not having money to pay you
second one is just the thing that says how many towns already exist
3rd one means thiers already town with the same name as the one your building
second one is just the thing that says how many towns already exist

[Hammerhands]

those are normal messages that are seen in-game

first one means your getting fired from the job due to the building not having money to pay you
second one is just the thing that says how many towns already exist
3rd one means thiers already town with the same name as the one your building
second one is just the thing that says how many towns already exist

normal for a world with NO buildings ???
and NO towns ???


ok i found that deleting all the TOWN .set files cleaned up the town problem
so what is the location of similar files for building history

and why doesnt these files get wiped when planet is cleared of all
buildings and towns?

[zaroba]

ahh.

did you load an import of another world at all?

[Hammerhands]

ahh.

did you load an import of another world at all?

no i wiped the mess made by a player while i was developing terrain
i found TOWN error cure but cant find how to remove all history
of buildings EVEN THO there are 0 buildings

[zaroba]

thought that problem was fixed.
anyway, goto your server instilation, open the data folder, open the towns folder.
delete all the files in the folder.

whenever a town is built on a world, a file is created in this folder to save its location (i assume thats what its for anyway). usually when towns are destroyed, thier associated file gets deleted aswell to allow a town of that name to be rebuilt.

[Hammerhands]

thought that problem was fixed.
anyway, goto your server instilation, open the data folder, open the towns folder.
delete all the files in the folder.

whenever a town is built on a world, a file is created in this folder to save its location (i assume thats what its for anyway). usually when towns are destroyed, thier associated file gets deleted aswell to allow a town of that name to be rebuilt.

As i already said above:
I figured out town problem by deleting all .SET files in town folder
yet i still have messages from buildings with NO type or Name
You were made reduntant from (no cash available to pay wages)
it doesnt say
You were made redundant from Solar Power Station or Inn or any
other building name/type its empty because the building isnt there

HOW do do I stop server from reporting activity on DELETED structures?

I can post this in French if English isnt a primary language

[zaroba]

well gee, i'm so sorry for overlooking one little bit of info and answering only one of your two questions so far instead of answering both at the same time and with lightning speed


anyway, try *clearlostbuildings ?

[Hammerhands]

well gee, i'm so sorry for overlooking one little bit of info and answering only one of your two questions so far instead of answering both at the same time and with lightning speed


anyway, try *clearlostbuildings ?

0 demolished buildings on record

there are absolutely no buildings on the planet
yet it keeps saying that buildings cant pay wages
if I knew how to destroy the planet completely
it would be faster than trying to find documentation
to clean up the mess

in most cases the command is something not on the list of
commands provided

perhaps instead of always saying the docs are being written / edited
how about an in world command
*displayallcommands