AE40....10/13/06 AE40 released..Report issues here

Well here goes nuttin!! or there goes the nut! :new_shocked:

Ok I have a server up "Testing New AE" 8 plyr DM v20 ae40

AE is running the following:

8h patch -->
Action)Checks players health
Reaction)sets health to 3h cannon rounds to 500

efam patch -->
Action)Checks to see if pilots are carrying more missiles then can be held in the bay while at not having efams.
Reaction)Nurf’s all missiles and displays an in game status message if player attempts to use.
(PLEASE NOTE **YOU MUST FIRE ATLEAST ONE MISSLE BEFORE DROPPING YOUR EFAMS OR LOAD WITHOUT THEM FROM FARP**)

Server side ammo/health Patch -->
Action)Scans server memory for NOP's of ammo and health subtraction code
Reaction)AE will close itself resetting the "game type" display on nova list to default.

Misuse of additional weapons patch-->
Action)Scans players looking for weapon use other then Hydras/stingers/20mm cannon
Reaction)If Serving Only Auto punts player and displays in game status message, Serving/playing Sets players health to zero and displays in game status message.

Reassignment of cannon to any other weapon patch-->
Action)Verifies the rounds coming out of the nose gun are infact 20mm cannon rounds.
Reaction)If Serving Only Auto punts player and displays in game status message, Serving/playing Sets players health to zero and displays in game status message.


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If you have a few minutes of game time today or tomorrow please join it and test it out. Post any issues or feedback. If it can survive thru some testing here I will release it for everyone to test(I want to make sure I’m not creating any new problems nor causing any servers to sys dump before it goes out, think you can appreciate that) When its released will depend on the number of people I can get in it to test it. I’d like to see it maxed out at the 8 it is set for, for at least a half hour to an hour straight some with ummm “nasty’s” and some without so we can test all the functions. Accomplishing that I plan to release it for download Friday (10/13) (*my lucky day btw!!).




I must stress one point and will repeat it over and over so we don’t misunderstand each other.

I cannot force a server to be honest!!!! Nor was it my intention here. If you control the hardware you control the game! The purpose here was to force the players joining your server to be honest, and hopefully let others know you wish to run a clean game. Everything that I’ve done with this app that tells you your joining a “clean/honest” server someone else could also write to look the same but not stop the cheating. Please keep that in mind. If you see something fishy going on leave and join a known server. Don’t stay just to $itch about it, that causes more problems in a community then the cheating itself. Everyone has the right to host a game however they wish to its their hardware and connection, it is your choice to support their house rules or not by where you play. Eventually the unsupported one’s die off.



Enjoy!! And see you in the skies! :waving.gif:

Inso out…………………….

Ok I just went into the server 8h from a couple of my machines. From one my health was immediately knocked down to about a third of life. That how the old AE worked as I remember. When I started shooting cannons it kicked me back to my pilot start screen. From the other it didn't show any health changes but when I started shooting cannons it kicked me back to the pilot ctart screen. Is this how it is suppose to work? I shot stingers with no problems. It did change my loadout for 8h fromm 999 to 500. No one else was there so I couldn't really test it any further yet.

Hi Rdhawk,

Keep in mind that joining and rejoining a server in v20 as 8h can actually be a pain in the @zz after nova attempted to fix it from version 15. So would I would like to know from you is this. At the point your health is not changed how many cannon rounds you have. This is a way to verify that you are in fact 8h. You will show 999 even tho the server is setting you to 500 live your display will NOT change client side from 999.

Let me know please.

Thanks inso

Temporarily down for repairs will repost once up again.



Having an issue with the nose cannon reporting false positives on respawn and farp.




Thank you very much to the great guys that stuck it out to help and took the time to test it!!!!



Back to work :crazy257.gif:

Inso.....

Nose cannon fixed working on efam issue, brb


Inso

Server is back up, been in it about 20 min now and seems to be rock solid!!!

Cannon hack and efam patch are fully functional now.

I have disabled the auto punt for testing so it dosnt get annoying, and added an in game message for each violation so we can see if any are missed. You will note the last 2 charcters of each message changes, that is a random string as after a few identical messages the server ignores them and wont post em.



Please come in and beat the hell out of it, lemmie know if you find any issues or live rounds that shouldnt be.


See you in the skies



Inso out...............

Auto punting has been re enabled.



Inso

Played about 2 hrs sure is nice, you are getting there and Thanks for all your hard work.

Hi all,

Server was up for about 6 hours tonight and seemed to working well. Am taking it down for hte night to work on a few more things, will put it back up about in the morning. Thank you again to everyone for taking the time to help with testing.


Inso out...........

Good afternoon all,


The server is back up after a slight delay! Sorry. I think youll find that what I added to it (working correctly I hope) was a good enough reason.....


I aint gonna tell ya neither! roflmao this is a suuuurprise.

And I gather that some will hate it:traurig310.gif: and some will laugh until dawn as I did!!!:LolLolLolLol:


Inso out................

Hi again, AE40 is up and ready for downloading. Thank you all very much for the help, I would not have gotten done that soon without you.

AE50 server is up for testing as well hope to keep progressing with the few things we have left. Already to being tested is the fire rate patch, limiting the number of cannon rounds per second that can be fired. ("hot gun" I believe its called). More to come so please if you see the server up take 10-20 minutes and give it a run through as it makes it easier on me and faster for you to get the patches.


Have fun :waving.gif:


Inso out.....................

Got it all installed and running, in Nova World server list it says its running but when you join the server it is not running. (ea40), On the server when I start AE40 the icon goes to the task bar and moves all around, I can not click on it to open it, moves to fast. Any help? when I run the MD5check should any thing be in there.

Hey baron, ummm for starters cntrl alt delete and kill AE in the task list. Let me know once you have it stopped.

Baron you running anything for Instant messaging?

Baron plesae dont forget, The autoexplode.exe MUST be in the same directory as the c4.exe that you are running the game with, AND the md5 for the c4.exe must be correct, MD5 for c4.exe aac73a8e64c4d51bae62957e573bff31 The patched Tkoth v20

yes we have that part done

k, stand by, BTR is getting the same results you are and we are working on it. brb

He's working on it...:waving.gif: . Getting the same error myself.. Can you PM me an IM Baron ? You have none in your profile.

can u come up on ts do you have Radmin

Grrrrrr


Inso

Still working on it baron, no I dont have ts but may end up with it shortly, and yes have radmin.

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Hi again, AE40 is up and ready for downloading. Thank you all very much for the help, I would not have gotten done that soon without you.

AE50 server is up for testing as well hope to keep progressing with the few things we have left. Already to being tested is the fire rate patch, limiting the number of cannon rounds per second that can be fired. ("hot gun" I believe its called). More to come so please if you see the server up take 10-20 minutes and give it a run through as it makes it easier on me and faster for you to get the patches.


Have fun :waving.gif:


Inso out.....................

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Where can I download at?:help:

Took it down for a minute, as were having some issues and are working on resolving them

Red, you disappeared from ICQ. Can you post your operating system ? 98, 2000 or XP ? Sevice Pack 1 or 2 ?

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Originally Posted by Bluetiereign

Red, you disappeared from ICQ. Can you post your operating system ? 98, 2000 or XP ? Sevice Pack 1 or 2 ?

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Our server is actually server 2003 but Xp Apps are working fine. I No longer have ICQ, I do have YIM listed. If I need ICQ Let me know and I can reinstall it. Thanks

Please do that - and put your number in your profile. This helps when we get busy trying to narrow down causes for the problems. Thank you.

Baron?? lol Iwasnt growling at you I hope yu dont think I was , where did you go?

oK ICQ is installed and running. Can you get my number or do you want me to post it here?

You are not showing up as online Red. Does your ICQ number actually have those dashes in it ?

By the way Inso I likey the hot guns thingy:singing: You must have read my mind. I have been wanting something like that for a while but hadn't mentioned since so many used them. Now maybe I can stand a change in dogfight:brutal173.gif: LOL. Thanks

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Originally Posted by Bluetiereign

You are not showing up as online Red. Does your ICQ number actually have those dashes in it ?

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Yes the dashes are shown my name is not shown as Redhawk but DoggieDaddy. I just recheck ICQ and copied and pasted and it was still the sames. Dashes are in like I thought. Could it be from different versions?

I have the newest, however all my squad contacts are in there just as before and they don't all have the same version.

Try IM'ing me... we'll do it that way... you are not showing up as online on Yahoo! either.

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Originally Posted by Bluetiereign

Try IM'ing me... we'll do it that way... you are not showing up as online on Yahoo! either.

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Ok that was an ancient icq so I started a new one you can try it. I just updated my stuff on profile. I also have my Yahoo messenger online also.

Inso, any luck in getting rid of the /td? If so, just for giggles, can you get rid of the /d also?

Back again,

Ok AE40 has been fixed and reposted for download. Sorry about the issues and delay's but know I will be here correcting them. Thank you to BTR and Red Baron for all their help in resolving the issues we had.

If anyone has any issues running, using or setting up AE please let me know ASAP either here or ICQ(faster)


Have Fun!!!


Inso out........................


Knuckles I have not done any additional work on the td yet but do plan to. Ill keep you posted. The d is almost required in some cases and avoidable by repacking so not sure why you would want to dump it??????.......

I sent you a PM...

Inso & Bluertiereign Thanks for all the help in getting the server up and running. Love that new AE!!

np gld you like it and glad its running ok.

inso

yuppers... enjoyed it. long day for me... and I KNOW it was for Inso

Phaser and me are running the host manager and AE 20_40. Stinger=FUN= noticed some pilots (flying without EFAMs) shooting much more stingers than possible without EFAMs. Yesterday JupMasta=FUN= figured out that the EFAM fix in AE doesn´t work correct and it seems some pilots use it.

I also noticed the pest couple of weeks that AE1040 is tagging pilots for 8h that I know are 3H or 1h and it is puntng folks for hacked guns when they are not hacked. It is happening in the CFS server and the EFA server during a match with FUN the other night.

I have tried numerous time to reach Inso but have gotten no reply so as of 12/21 we are just going to be running only Host Manager again until the issues are fixed. The 8h and the efam bug are handled mostly through host manager, although I know some pilots exploit the vunerablity of that. If anyone tries to use hacked weapons in CFS and can't kill with anything except stings and 20 mm cannons you can go fly in CAGI so you will be able to cheat there, and have a nice day and comeback and fly again when you fly fair.

Oh yeah we are closely watching our CFS server for cheating and when we see plan out old cheating, not lag, we know the difference, you will be warned 1 time in and if you don't acknoledge the Admin warning, you will be banned and have to find somewhere else to fly. That is the only real way to stop cheaters. We can't stop cheaters from doing what they do but we can stop them from flying if our servers.LOL

I look forward to AE1050 to try it out. Maybe if we had a few more programers to help Inso we could stay ahead of these folks. We will still win out over the cheaters though!

I can help you with stopping some of the hacked weapons from the server side if you are a CO or Server Operater for a legitament Squad. If you'll PM me I'll tell you how after I confirm you are who you say you are.