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Re: Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

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Post by jweather »

neitsa wrote: post #30

Thanks a lot! I love programming games. I'm just writing a simple client in python, and when sending a HELP packet, I'm receiving a packet with byte 0x82 as the header, which if I'm not mistaken is packet type 0x10 (0x82 >> 3 = 0x10), rather than 2. Am I missing something? Sending HELP packet (5 bytes): OFFS DUMP ASCII 0000 00 58 52 32 4B .XR2K Receiving response... OFFS DUMP ASCII 0000 82 58 52 32 4B 96 23 53 - 50 4…

The bit fields are listed from Most Significant Bit to Least Significant Bit, so 0x82 is a type 0x02 packet with a two-byte length field.

Re: Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

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Post by neitsa »

jweather wrote: post #31
neitsa wrote: post #30

Thanks a lot! I love programming games. I'm just writing a simple client in python, and when sending a HELP packet, I'm receiving a packet with byte 0x82 as the header, which if I'm not mistaken is packet type 0x10 (0x82 >> 3 = 0x10), rather than 2. Am I missing something? Sending HELP packet (5 bytes): OFFS DUMP ASCII 0000 00 58 52 32 4B .XR2K Receiving response... OFFS DUMP ASCII 0000 82 58 52 32 4B 96 23 53 - 50 4…

The bit fields are listed from Most Significant Bit to Least Significant Bit, so 0x82 is a type 0x02 packet with a two-byte length field.

omg... I feel like an idiot. Don't know why I didn't see that. Thanks a lot!

Re: Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

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Post by xr2k_enjoyer »

I have 3 issues:

1. Sending GETSTATUS always causes the connection to drop.

2. Sending the first "correct" ROUTE packet causes the server to go down for a while.

3. Sending GETMAIL for the email after the hint email (4th one in my case) causes the connection to drop.

@richmans Happy to be playtesting your game, but I would be glad if you can reply to this comment so that I know this is being read.

Re: Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

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Post by richmans »

xr2k_enjoyer wrote: post #33

I have 3 issues: 1. Sending GETSTATUS always causes the connection to drop. 2. Sending the first "correct" ROUTE packet causes the server to go down for a while. 3. Sending GETMAIL for the email after the hint email (4th one in my case) causes the connection to drop. @richmans Happy to be playtesting your game, but I would be glad if you can reply to this comment so that I know this is being read.

Thanks for playtesting.

1. Not sure, i will look into it

2. Its not down, your message is traveling through space at the speed of light :-)

3. I think this is caused by my db issues, working on that currently

So, thanks for your patience and feedback. I did run a lot of tests before launching, but most of them did not use a real database… Learned a lot in the last few days!

Re: Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

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Post by jweather »

richmans wrote: post #27
jweather wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While you're looking at that - my user user-81574ce4 appears to have another e-mail now but the system drops connection when I try to retrieve it.

Should be fixed

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Re: Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

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Post by xr2k_enjoyer »

richmans wrote: post #35
xr2k_enjoyer wrote: post #33

I have 3 issues: 1. Sending GETSTATUS always causes the connection to drop. 2. Sending the first "correct" ROUTE packet causes the server to go down for a while. 3. Sending GETMAIL for the email after the hint email (4th one in my case) causes the connection to drop. @richmans Happy to be playtesting your game, but I would be glad if you can reply to this comment so that I know this is being read.

Thanks for playtesting. 1. Not sure, i will look into it 2. Its not down, your message is traveling through space at the speed of light :-) 3. I think this is caused by my db issues, working on that currently So, thanks for your patience and feedback. I did run a lot of tests before launching, but most of them did not use a real database… Learned a lot in the last few days!

No problem!

With regards to issue 2, I wasn't referring to the delay between between the route packet sent and the route packet received. It's when I finally send a packet with the right daily access code encrypted with the handshake key, I'm unable to continue playing for an hour or so, because the server stops sending anything (even the "hello" packet).

Re: Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

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Post by username44 »

richmans wrote: post #35
xr2k_enjoyer wrote: post #33

I have 3 issues: 1. Sending GETSTATUS always causes the connection to drop. 2. Sending the first "correct" ROUTE packet causes the server to go down for a while. 3. Sending GETMAIL for the email after the hint email (4th one in my case) causes the connection to drop. @richmans Happy to be playtesting your game, but I would be glad if you can reply to this comment so that I know this is being read.

Thanks for playtesting. 1. Not sure, i will look into it 2. Its not down, your message is traveling through space at the speed of light :-) 3. I think this is caused by my db issues, working on that currently So, thanks for your patience and feedback. I did run a lot of tests before launching, but most of them did not use a real database… Learned a lot in the last few days!

Hi, I’m having a lot of fun with this so far, this is a cool way to get comfortable with a new programming language. Two comments so far, first, the third email seems to be triggered by translating a certain word, but it can happen repeatedly. When tweaking my translation method I ended up getting multiple copies of the mail.

Second, after deriving what I presume is the correct access code, I am no longer authorized for transceiver usage. Is this an intended game mechanic? There doesn’t seem to be any indication of how to proceed if so.

Re: Show HN: XR2000: A science fiction programming challenge

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Post by jweather »

username44 wrote: post #39
richmans wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for playtesting. 1. Not sure, i will look into it 2. Its not down, your message is traveling through space at the speed of light :-) 3. I think this is caused by my db issues, working on that currently So, thanks for your patience and feedback. I did run a lot of tests before launching, but most of them did not use a real database… Learned a lot in the last few days!

Hi, I’m having a lot of fun with this so far, this is a cool way to get comfortable with a new programming language. Two comments so far, first, the third email seems to be triggered by translating a certain word, but it can happen repeatedly. When tweaking my translation method I ended up getting multiple copies of the mail. Second, after deriving what I presume is the correct access code, I am no longer authorized…

Check your in-game mail - finding the correct access code should trigger another message.
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