Why are you on windows XP? It is 2016. I don't think FreeSO even supports this anymore, due to monogame requirements.I will test your Setuptool now, maybe it will work
Edit: I downloaded the Setup tool and i cant start it, because it says I need Network Version 4.1.
I downloaded it, and it says, my PC cant run this version of Networkversion.
How old is your computer?????I will test your Setuptool now, maybe it will work
Edit: I downloaded the Setup tool and i cant start it, because it says I need Network Version 4.1.
I downloaded it, and it says, my PC cant run this version of Networkversion.
Messages like that aren't really "debug", and they certainly wouldn't help in debugging the application, so they don't even deserve a place behind a preprocessor directive. For reference, I never submit changes which add obvious temporary testing functionality to FreeSO - the only code behind preprocessor directive is that to catch SimAntics exceptions and continue simulation after disconnecting from the server (permanently useful debug/release distinctions).I hate to be cynical, but you did ask for feedback, so here goes!
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I know that's there for debug purposes, but it could throw people off if they've never used the launcher before. Consider building release builds for the public to use and putting the messagebox around a pre-processor directive (i.e. #if DEBUG).
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Again - I know this is an open beta, but is there no way you could display this in MB/GB? And maybe a speed too?
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I'm not trying to cause some sort of graphics war here, but the background here certainly looks bleak and colourless. Why did you choose this? We can't see the chat behind it, so why not choose a screenshot with more colour? It looks very uninteresting to the point where it's almost boring; why did you go for something that's in the background of the first "screen" - make it more diverse!
There's also this annoying flickering on the item that is being installed/downloaded. Can't really show that here though.
I do like the custom progressbars though, and the launcher works nicely - it installed TSO quickly along with all the prerequisites!
Or better yet, just do it all within a using statement...
It appears some things need to be polished up, Yes the "Project FreeSO" should be corrected to just "FreeSO" - Personally the game images for the Install Tool isn't "too bad", although a few of them do have the same floor tiles, perhaps adding a couple of replacement images would be more visually pleasant? Keep up the great work JD, you're doing amazing!
I second this. Maybe adding several and then fading between them at given intervals?
That's not a solution, and it's certainly not better in any way. Catching an exception will just entirely skip the rest of the process, which is what's happening right now. Catching it and trying again immediately will not close the old stream.
I never said anything about retrying or catching an exception...
Whoops, thought you meant try/catch. Using statement is pretty much exactly what I said anyways.
It's good haha
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Glad to see that you're taking in community suggestions and using them to improve your project, it's really good to see developers who do that. There aren't enough of those in the world (looking at you, Niantic).Updates Include:
As for the OpenAL glitch, I can't say for sure if it still happens, as I have not come across the glitch on my pc yet.
- Removed message boxes that serve no purposes, like the message box showing a web address after selecting the Alternate TSO installation.
- Added an option to skip the TSO installation. If TSO isn't installed, it will show this box reminding the user that TSO installation is mandatory. If TSO is not installed however, it will just skip without any message boxes showing. This of course can always be changed to not allowing skipping TSO without it present on the Computer!
- Both Textboxes for paths now support typing paths into them.
- "Project FreeSO" has now been changed to "FreeSO".
- Crash when stopping FreeSO download has been patched.
- File sizes are now a lot more user friendly, using standard, GB, MB, KB, and Bytes.
- Added a download speed that will work for sizes from Bytes to GB. Chances are it will stay around KB/MB though
You can download this updated EXE from this form post, the link has been updated.
It's been out for 2 weeks, and the 3 footprints bug breaks the game and has been there since Friday at the least. They released it to Canadians too, further flooding the servers... they should at least try to keep things stable.
So why did they release the game to 30+ countries within the two weeks, at the same time as knowing servers were unstable.
I saw that somewhere too, think it was on Reddit. They did have a beta so they should have realized that things were going to be broken, or seen issues sooner at least.
$$$ to keep releasing it anyways, and there's no way they could have known the true load (and related issues) that a public release would put on them.
...Apart from various social media networks and counters on both the app store & gplay...
There's no counter for "future downloads", obviously, and social media definitely doesn't give you hard numbers. They likely thought only pokemon fans would be interested, not everyone with a phone. If such numbers did exist, they still wouldn't be able to predict what would happen to their servers with that many clients.
