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After completing the second mission for the non-ARC guys where you are supposed to place a tracer program on the ARC server and sending the reply confirming my success, I received no return message. Is this a bug? I've sent the message multiple times, sped up time, and tried running the program again, but I still get neither the "not yet done" or "done" letters from the company who is not ARC (I can't remember their name at the moment).
Why'd you quote me in your post? I see no reply...
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Originally posted by Jericon: **They all work fine for me. Are you sure you have the tool selected when you go to use it?
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Yes, tryed 16 times with each tool.... It apears that theres a conflict somewhere with X.2.5 Server
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Originally posted by Zarkonnen-: **I log into the Uplink Test Server, go to the Console, write: dir cd log delete The server deletes all logs. Immediately afterwards, Uplink quits unexpectedly.
I was also unable to pay my fine in a recent game. They claimed I hadn't paid it even though I had, with my money deducted. Lost that game. Maybe I was just too stupid to use the bank interface correctly, but I followed the instructions.**
I'm currently having the exact same trouble with the payment issue. I'm going to freaking lose all my progress just because of a bug!! Help! I know I'm doing this right, I've paid three times, and it still doesn't register. Definitely a bug. Please send me an email at isaak@mail.com when fixed.
This may not be a bug but it's worth asking about. I've been backing up my .usr files every time a get a new gateway or payoff or something, and it's good i did because eventually my original user got busted. so i renamed one of the backups (to something other than the initial user name), logged in with it, did some stuff, logged out, and when i log in again i'm back where i started (nothing i did with the new login gets saved). and this keeps happening, no matter what i do before logging out or what i rename the file to. any solutions?
The description of Trace Tracker V4.0 appears to have a longer description than the window would allow, but there is no way to scoll down (at least that I can find).
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I think I can add some detail to the ARC mission bug.
I did a mission for them and when I replied to the mission to get paid, I got a new email in response - but the old one did not disappear. It stayed until I deleted it (and lost status because of it). Anyway, Not only that, but when I tried three times to rely to end the original mission - I got the new email three times, along with the 10 grand (3x) and Revelation (3x).
I also got the message from the other group (don't remember their name) that wanted the revelation program. They offered 15 grand for it and when I sent it to them, NOTHING HAPPENED. The emails stayed and I had to eventually delete them (I hate a cluttered desktop).
Unfortunately, I no longer have the associated .usr as I am unregistered and have only played for a short time (I wanted to start over and liked the hacker name I picked).
Sidenote - It might be a good idea to let people know somewhere that the 3 grand you start with is borrowed - a loan from the bank. I did not know that until I got a fine and had to go to my account at the bank. Then I realized I had to pay it off (with interest).
Sidenote - One of the machines offered had a broadband radio connection that is supposed to make it impossible to find - yet I got nailed anyway. What's up?
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Originally posted by Jericon: (...)when I come up with a solution I will be sure to post it here and to the add-ons.
I'd definately download a "Shh music!" plugin - the tunes are nice and all, but after you've listened to them a while they get very repetitive.
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Originally posted by Jericon: **This is a known issue, and according to Chris Jacobson, the programmer who converted Uplink from the PC:
"This is a limitation of the sound and music engine."
With how it is programmed now, it would require a lot of work to make it function as you are describing, and probably won't happen anytime soon. **
Terrible news. I can't play this game, simply because the incessant soundtrack is maddening! Shame too, because the game looks cool. Ideally there would be a way to turn the soundtrack off, but keep the necessary audio feedback to play the game.
Originally posted by Fofer: Terrible news. I can't play this game, simply because the incessant soundtrack is maddening! Shame too, because the game looks cool. Ideally there would be a way to turn the soundtrack off, but keep the necessary audio feedback to play the game.
Ah, just read more of the posts... glad to see there's work moving in this direction. I'll keep my hopes up... the game has really picqued my interest. But not at the risk of losing my sanity...
I've seen a lot of interface bug : ? One time, while deconnecting while on world map, the computer names started to flicker for 10sec ? The Monitor Bypass stay in Connection analyse window, even after I deconnected myself, it is also calles "Proxi bypass" in the lower left corner desc text, and and stay at the front of the screen when I open the World map. ? Log deleter v4 often have a curious visual bihaviour ? Flashing buttons, that flash during tutorial for example, don't flash anymore after I get on the Agent selection screen...
This is all i remember...
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I've noticed a few more bugs:
1. Not infrequently, when calling administrators to obtain their voiceprint, they will sound as though they are talking in slow-motion on the phone (very low voice, stretched out words, etc. -- as though the software were playing back the recording at half speed). Later, when using the voice analyzer with their recording, it will play them back sounding slow, again. Quitting and re-launching Uplink seems to help sometimes, and, sometimes it doesn't.
2. When in the HUD:Connection Analyzer, the background behind the diamond-symbol for proxies, firewalls, and monitors is black instead of transparent. I've seen some screenshots of the PC version, and they don't have a black box around those symbols. Very minor, but it looks slightly ugly.
3. On the world map, sometimes clicking "load" when you have a saved connection will cause the server names to begin "jumping around." Logging out of your gateway and back in seems to fix this.
4. If you start a connection (tested with 1 jump) from your gateway to a server, and then click the load button, the saved jumps will be loaded, and the original single jump will persist.
5. On the world map, server outlines (either admin or user) will show up overtop of the mouse-over-labels.
Also, two or three times, Uplink has crashed when I quit it. Here are the crash reports:
Date/Time: 2003-05-29 10:30:26 -0700 OS Version: 10.2.6 (Build 6L60) Host: bh.local.
Command: Uplink PID: 419
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x000000e4
Thread 0 Crashed: #0 0x000000e4 in 0xe4 #1 0x0023d4d8 in 0x23d4d8 #2 0x00237c24 in 0x237c24 #3 0x001ae8c8 in 0x1ae8c8 #4 0x0022f300 in 0x22f300 #5 0x001b3e30 in 0x1b3e30 #6 0x001a1374 in 0x1a1374 #7 0x001a11cc in 0x1a11cc #8 0x001b2c38 in 0x1b2c38 #9 0x969a2c54 in DispatchEventToHandlers #10 0x969a2fbc in SendEventToEventTargetInternal #11 0x969b5494 in SendEventToEventTarget #12 0x969c3030 in SendHICommandEvent #13 0x96a5b8dc in SendMenuItemSelectedEvent #14 0x96a5b7f8 in HandleKeyboardEvent #15 0x969a2c54 in DispatchEventToHandlers #16 0x969a2fbc in SendEventToEventTargetInternal #17 0x969a63d0 in SendEventToEventTargetWithOptions #18 0x969ecdf4 in HandleKeyboardEvent(OpaqueEventRef*, unsigned long) #19 0x969b288c in ToolboxEventDispatcherHandler(OpaqueEventHandlerCallRef*, OpaqueEventRef*, void*) #20 0x969a2d0c in DispatchEventToHandlers #21 0x969a2fbc in SendEventToEventTargetInternal #22 0x969b5494 in SendEventToEventTarget #23 0x969b7258 in ToolboxEventDispatcher(OpaqueEventRef*) #24 0x969c8740 in CallEventDispatchHook #25 0x969b3c90 in TryEventDispatcher #26 0x969a4570 in GetOrPeekEvent #27 0x969a421c in GetNextEventMatchingMask #28 0x96a9cdb8 in GetNextEvent #29 0x00323a84 in 0x323a84 #30 0x00323448 in 0x323448 #31 0x0031d820 in 0x31d820 #32 0x002c9bec in 0x2c9bec #33 0x001a9c90 in 0x1a9c90 #34 0x001b3cd0 in 0x1b3cd0 #35 0x001b2ff8 in 0x1b2ff8 #36 0x001b2f74 in 0x1b2f74
Thread 1: #0 0x90073c48 in mach_msg_trap #1 0x90005f90 in mach_msg #2 0x901489f0 in __CFRunLoopRun #3 0x90180f58 in CFRunLoopRunSpecific #4 0x94d9c1c0 in HALRunLoop::OwnThread(void*) #5 0x94d911b0 in CAPThread::Entry(CAPThread*) #6 0x90020d48 in _pthread_body
PPC Thread State: srr0: 0x000000e4 srr1: 0x4000d030 vrsave: 0x00000000 xer: 0x20000000 lr: 0x001af90c ctr: 0x000000e4 mq: 0x00000000 r0: 0x000000e4 r1: 0xbfffec40 r2: 0x036f6001 r3: 0x036fede0 r4: 0x00000001 r5: 0x00000000 r6: 0x000000e2 r7: 0x00000380 r8: 0x036fecf8 r9: 0xa0220a00 r10: 0x000000fc r11: 0xa0004894 r12: 0x036ff238 r13: 0x0051d914 r14: 0x0050e237 r15: 0x00000000 r16: 0x00000000 r17: 0x0000018e r18: 0x00000000 r19: 0x00000000 r20: 0x00000002 r21: 0x00000000 r22: 0x77f7e309 r23: 0x00048860 r24: 0x0052b9c0 r25: 0x0052b9c0 r26: 0x0052be80 r27: 0x0051ad28 r28: 0x004b8348 r29: 0x02f77c00 r30: 0x036fc50c r31: 0x00000002
Date/Time: 2003-05-29 10:46:39 -0700 OS Version: 10.2.6 (Build 6L60) Host: bh.local.
Command: Uplink PID: 425
PPC Thread State: srr0: 0x000000e4 srr1: 0x4200d030 vrsave: 0x00000000 xer: 0x20000000 lr: 0x001af90c ctr: 0x000000e4 mq: 0x00000000 r0: 0x000000e4 r1: 0xbfffec40 r2: 0x0332e001 r3: 0x03337ea0 r4: 0x00000001 r5: 0x00000000 r6: 0x00000082 r7: 0x00000320 r8: 0x03e1b708 r9: 0xa0220a00 r10: 0x000000fd r11: 0xa0004894 r12: 0x033383d8 r13: 0x0051d914 r14: 0x0050e237 r15: 0x00000000 r16: 0x00000000 r17: 0x00000181 r18: 0x00000000 r19: 0x00000000 r20: 0x00000002 r21: 0x00000000 r22: 0x77f5845b r23: 0x00048860 r24: 0x0052b9c0 r25: 0x0052b9c0 r26: 0x0052be80 r27: 0x0051ad28 r28: 0x004b8348 r29: 0x02f77c00 r30: 0x03336f5c r31: 0x00000000
I'll post anything more that I find.
Just forgot one, the funiest one...
- i made myself an acount on every bank in order to have better bouncing than with Public servers. For some reasons I got scan by a server witout I could do anything (I clicked on the link instead of + in the servers list...) and I received a mail with a 1000cr fine taht I paid, but count I had to transfert my credits to was mine, and so, another money transfert later, I got all my money back...
I had also an other one, but I can't remember what... :frown:
Sometimes, I can't type in text fields. For example, I was trying to clear my logs from the Uplink Test Machine. I attempted to type cd log. Nothing happened. I waited, literally, a full real-time minute for the text to appear, suspecting it was lagging. It did not appear. Yes, I hit enter. Yes, I hit Post.
This has happened more than fifteen times. Why is this?
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You are in the directory. I do not think it does anything to acknowledge it. Or is the message not dieplaying on the console?
Scope: I meant to reply, but for some reason it dissapeared. What I was going to say was that you have to start a new Uplink user after you add new LAN's because the map is already generated. This seems highly annoying, and I doubt they will fix it as they want to keep it equal with the PC version.
If you had already created a new user, I'm not sure what it wrong, Sorry about the slip up above.
Andrew
Originally posted by Andcarne: **You are in the directory. I do not think it does anything to acknowledge it. Or is the message not dieplaying on the console?
No. It's an interface problem. You know how when you hit keys on your little keyboard? And they're supposed to show up on the screen, right? Sometimes, that doesn't happen.
Well, this game is starting to piss me off 'cause I've lost something like 12 user files because I somehow always get caught. I don't know how someone can read an empty log and figure out my IP, but they did...
Here's a real bug... whenever trace_tracker v4 shows over 433 seconds remaining, it just shows 433 seconds and beeps repeatedly until it goes below 433.
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I encountered one today. I hacked into a real low-security server to just steal a file and get out. I had something like 450 seconds before they caught me, so I was in no hurry. My mom comes down and wants to talk to me, so I pause the game. Once I restart the game, after about ten minutes, the trace tracker (v 4.0) tells me I have 0 seconds left and beeps constantly. But I wasn't actually traced, and I was able to finish up what I was doing and get out. It seems as if trace timing doesn't stop when the rest of the game is paused.
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What about if I never installed a new LAN?
Originally posted by Andcarne: Unfortunatly there is no way to do this. The music and sound effects are also locked together. Hopefully this will be fixed in a later release, but from the sounds of it, it will require quite a few code changes.
I'll help. That is to say, I, too, will enthusiastically come down on the side of favoring a shush patch. The music is inoffensive enough, but sometimes I wants the musics and sometimes I wants the quiet, the shush shush very nervous need to concentrate steady steady don't get caught now quiet.
However, we all have to stand up and give a big hoo-ah to you folks for keeping the Mac version bug-for-bug compatible with the original.