Newbie need help

Elhohim · Post by **Elhohim** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:21 pm

hello all.
looks like an awesome job you re doing here but.....
I have a problem, I downloaded the files
(wcu-devel.0.2.3.zip,wcu-2006-patch1.zip&wcu-2006-patch2.zip)
ok
installed the whole thing
ok
launch the game
ok
then I dock at the 1st station...;and nothing! no commodity exchange no ship dealer no mission terminal no guilds ....no way back to ship either

so here s my question, what did I do wrong? do I have the right files?
please help me! it s been so long since I flied those ships...now that I know it s possible again it hurt to fail so close

Privateer Ferrius · Post by **Privateer Ferrius** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:38 pm

Which base is this? The asteroid mining facility in Troy?

I haven't been able to get WCU to work on it's own to be honest. Just the Privateer remake.

Spaceman Spiff · Post by **Spaceman Spiff** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:38 am

I'm no dev, so I can't help you. What I can do is telling you, that you have my deepest sympathy... cause I suffer from the same problem

Spaceman Spiff wrote:Hi guys,

I just went to try the two new patches you've released this year, but I didn't come anywhere...
The bug is this. As soon as I start the game I find myself on the ND landingbay. When I the enter ND, I see the ND background, but I can't do anything anymore. BUT: As soon as I grab my joystick I can fire my main guns (still the ND background) - the game seems to be back in space already . Perhaps important: I can fire using the joystick, but I can't fire using the spacebar. Not sure if stderr and stdout will help you because I gotta leave the game via good old ctrl-alt-del...

@spirit, klauss, chuck...
Do we still use the 0.2.3 bug-thread at all? If we don't you might wanna close it and make this the new bug-thread?

spiritplumber · Post by **spiritplumber** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:36 pm

What base was it in, and what ship was it?

Spaceman Spiff · Post by **Spaceman Spiff** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:57 pm

As I said, right after the beginning. The base is New Detroit, the ship is the beginning Tarsus... of course, if you can't go on in the game...

May installation:
WCU 0.2.3
Patch 1 2006
Patch 2 2006

in this order...

Spaceman Spiff · Post by **Spaceman Spiff** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:04 pm

spiritplumber wrote:eep major goofup on my side -- be sure to:

- Run setup at least once.
- Run vegastrikeR.exe instead of vegastrike.exe
- If it still acts up, run the "reset universe' batch file.

sorry, checked this thread first. I'll try it tonight...
Spirit, are you interested in some testing reports about the new patches or do you consider this as less important right now?

Elhohim · Post by **Elhohim** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:04 pm

thanks for the answers
and for the starting location: New detroit
tough I started in new detroit space and I had to fly to New D

spiritplumber · Post by **spiritplumber** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:47 pm

Testing reports are always good

thanks!

Elhohim · Post by **Elhohim** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:32 pm

following the advice I ran vegastrikeR.exe
(note: btw the launcher use vegastrike.exe)
and it start the campaign just like the original(except I don t remember starting with 2mil+ creds

)
so I buy a jump drive and head for new D, jump to pender star ok, jump to junction ok, then bad things happen
...jump point not working to new constantinople or any other destination

stranded again ...oh well there s a pleasure planet in system...I ll find way to enjoy myself until new development

Post by **chuck_starchaser** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:55 pm

Not sure which ship you're flying, the milspec variants consume jump fuel for the afterburner, so if you afterburn a lot you get stranded.

Spaceman Spiff · Post by **Spaceman Spiff** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:19 pm

Ok,

I started testing and the game works fine so far. I stopped testing and returned to my real work as soon as I noticed, that there are no automatic landingzones in WCU anymore...

Post by **chuck_starchaser** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:28 pm

Well, good riddance... who needs them?

Spaceman Spiff · Post by **Spaceman Spiff** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 6:42 pm

chuck_starchaser wrote:Well, good riddance... who needs them?

dito

it feels much better this way, and as I said, it made me start to work again...

Privateer Ferrius · Post by **Privateer Ferrius** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:23 pm

Aww, but it was -SO- fun trying to fly my Paradigm into one.

...

No, no sarcasm at all

Privateer Ferrius · Post by **Privateer Ferrius** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:42 pm

chuck_starchaser wrote:Not sure which ship you're flying, the milspec variants consume jump fuel for the afterburner, so if you afterburn a lot you get stranded.

Are you sure?

I've been jetting around in a Broadsword for a while now in Priv and haven't noticed any significant fuel consumption from afterburning - and I use it about 80% of the time.

Elhohim · Post by **Elhohim** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:33 pm

chuck_starchaser wrote:Not sure which ship you're flying, the milspec variants consume jump fuel for the afterburner, so if you afterburn a lot you get stranded.

I tried again, this time watching my fuel jauge (tough the starting tarsus isn t millspec) and still nothing

the "jump" indicator doesn t light up when I reach jump point just like there was no jumppoint.
stranded again. at least I hope it ll help troubleshooting

Privateer Ferrius · Post by **Privateer Ferrius** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:22 pm

You DO have a Jump Drive in full repair, right?

Elhohim · Post by **Elhohim** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:44 pm

Elhohim wrote: ...so I buy a jump drive and head for new D, jump to pender star ok, jump to junction ok, then bad things happen
...jump point not working to new constantinople or any other destination ...

I DO have a working jump drive (did 2 jump fine) and I still have 1/2 of fuel jauge...

Privateer Ferrius · Post by **Privateer Ferrius** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:39 pm

In full repair though? It can get damaged in a dogfight, and if it does, you're stranded, unless theres a friendly capship, or base to land at.

Elhohim · Post by **Elhohim** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:40 pm

I never had hostile contact so nothing could have damaged the ship .
I tried again and again and allways the same thing... I can make the jump to junction fine then no way out.
next I ll download again and reinstall( in case something went wrong in download / install)
dunno if it can help the troubleshooting but I installed PR 1.2 without any prob and it run just fine. can I try swapping .system file into WCU or are the engine separate ?

Post by **chuck_starchaser** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:48 pm

So, you downloaded and reinstalled and had the same problem again?
That's very odd; I would have thought it was a damaged system file or savegame. You reinstalled into a new folder, or over the old one?
Under the .priv100 folder there are some cacheing folders that wouldn't be overwritten. You could try running the reset_universe.bat batch file.
I don't think you can use the Junction system from PR; there are added jumps off Junction, in WCU.
In any case; you shouldn't expect a bug-free game; WCU is very much a work in progress.

Privateer Ferrius · Post by **Privateer Ferrius** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:50 pm

Elohim, there are plenty of ways to damage something without hostile countact. Ever heard of asteroid feilds?

You can put the WCU universe into Privateer (it'll just break the nav-comp), but you can't do it the other way, for the reasons Chuck noted.

micheal_andreas_stahl · Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:06 pm

Is Wing Commander Universe the same thing as Privateer?

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