Just incase....

morbydvisns · Post by **morbydvisns** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 10:12 pm

for those unaware, you can go to www.gameislands.net and get a-tractor, and access a few planets.

and for somehow, when i dl a-tractor, installed it into the same (default) directory as my univ ersal.... reverted my .3 univ back to .2.... i re-applied the .2 patch and the a-tractor and the univ are back on .2 vers.... on the a-tractor planet list in the display didnt change, but the planets they point to arent whats listed.... The Republic goes to Zion, Sabrada goes to The Republic, Zion goes to Zoric, and Mechzone goes to Ariya.

seems to be pulling a partial FIPRO (destianation IP mainly) info for the A-tractor menu. Who knows.

at least now theres kinda round about way to get where ya wanna be while we are in these times of darkness in the galaxy

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 4:24 am

Mixing A-Tractor and The Universal gets wierd results like that.

Both A-Tractor and The Universal get planet listing (A-Tractors planet listing is the main menu and The Universal has one with the fipro) from the chat server soo...

If chat server goes boom: No A-Tractor/ Fipro...

(Why does the game rely on such external components beats me)

theseer · Post by **theseer** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 5:23 am

I remember Mit saying it'll fall back to the last list but I guess that'll be next version.

zaroba · Post by **zaroba** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 11:37 am

Kirby wrote: (Why does the game rely on such external components beats me)

because if it was programmed into the client thier'd need to be a patch any time a world was to be added to or removed from it or anytime a worlds ip address changed.

Kirby · Post by **Kirby** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:41 am

Hrm. Well,why doesn't the game have a prebuilt list for each release and attempt to update that very list on each try? So if in the case the chat server & the galaxy server goes down again chances are the player has successfuly has a recent list upon first connection of the chat server. A offline list that's updated upon a connection to the chat server.

Though of course I don't have a clue how this stuff works.

Post by **Magicfinger** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 11:47 am

apologies about the chat server as im also away at the moment back on thursday... usually i can VNC to the machine from here and re-boot the server however we have had a couple of power cuts over xmas and i reckon the machine is off... if i get a chance i may pop home and restart it