Topic: BMJ: Mining Simulator (pre-pre alpha) - page 4. (Read 9630 times)

Thanks for report. I probably broke the variable which logs if the event fired. I'll fix it tomorrow ~when I wake up. Should (finally) have 0004 up tomorrow or the next day. Fwiw, without looking at the actual cause, there's a small chance you might not run into that if you load your most recent saved game and run it on the Main page if you run into it on the Stats page, or Stats if you ran into the bug on the Main page.

Bug report:

Date is 4/20/2011 6:00 on 4x speed. I get the message: "Bad news! A fire's broken out in your office! Roll the Dice of Fate to survey the damage." I click on the dice and it says "Whew! Looks like it was a false alarm. Nothing's been damaged." I click "OK" and get sent back to the "Bad news! A fire's broken out in your office! Roll the Dice of Fate to survey the damage." page. This is going on in a loop.

Works now, thanks a ton Kluge looks great so far

ETA2: Fwiw, I'll be away until Monday.

Ahhhh.... damn. I was able to recreate it.... I actually see the problem, now. One of the conditions for the button-clicking to work is for the year to be "11" instead of "2011." I'll get a new version up in ~10 minutes. Thanks for report (& sorry about that).

ETA: New version stealth-uploaded. Should be fixed, now.

It's definitely updated. I see the new loading screen and the bottom of the main page says '000399a testing'. I'll keep trying things.

 Thats sounds like pms , I hope you don't get pms (meaning I hope you are a man) , otherwise my miner in game might go ' hey hashing hashing all the time when will we do something different I would like to go see that movie and want to go to my moms , also give me your credit card I will buy some chocolate'

Lol, no. It's really helpful. I'm just disappointed I'm not catching some of things things and'm a bit moody sometimes. Give me 4-21 days and I'll be overly-enthusiastic again. Thanks.

Hm. Try pressing shift-f5 while on the page. Maybe it isn't updating. I don't see what could be causing an issue, anymore.

 I have past august 10/2010 but still no gpu function opened up  actually I am on 22nd september 2010 and still no gpu. Just pointing out.

edit : alright it opened

 I seriously believe you are starting to hate me ahahha , I am more like admirer rather than critique , the only reason I am sharing these info because I want you to be aware of them , not because 'fix it so I can play' reasons

I got the update, but I still can't get passed that 25% of bitcoins mined message :/

....... and thanks to the Professor for pointing out you can't sell BTC. Jeez. I'll put out the version I'm working on now. Gimme a sec to make sure I didn't break the game with the half-finished p2p lending feature.

ETA: "000399a" up.  I fiddled with difficulty and BTC price calculations a lot without testing, yet.

.... o.O I can reproduce that, but as far as I can tell, it's caused by magic. This one has me stumped.

ETA: Uggggh! Found it. It was hiding somewhere I didn't expect. That page is a freaking mess. The good news is if you save the game, it'll work normally when I push 0004. ~A couple days out on that, still.

Thank you, both, for reports. Sorry again.

Bleh. I see the issue. I'll have it fixed when 0004 is out. Sorry about that.

Funny game!
In the game I bought a computer, but it says "cluster 3 - nothing here", even if the table is filled with the computer information.
I can't sell or buy new computers...

Bug: For the news notification when it says '25% of all Bitcoins have been mined', clicking on 'Next' or 'ok' or whatever doesn't work. I can click the button but the page doesn't go away and nothing happens. Refreshing fixes it. It's on 2/28/2011.

I can't do anything in the game now :/ refreshing sends me back to my latest save which is before the broken page comes up.

0004 is going to take me longer than usual... I want to have a new "Opportunities icon scroll" (uh... probably a better technical word describing it). Opportunities will pop up in the lower-left as icons with hover-text giving a brief on what the opportunity is but not pause the game like a major event would. The game would, however, need to pause when you click it. The game also needs to clear opportunities from this window automatically if a user doesn't click it, and then a new screen needs to be made up going over all opportunities currently running their course which'll eventually have a faux tabbed window which'll include other categories of opportunities, like GLBSE when its time comes.

AFAIK, this is a browser issue which generally happens when the game's being played in a tab. Browsers (esp. mobile) generally either pause or slow anything executing down to 1fps. Games which may dare trying to get around this generally try to grab the time when focus is lost, then auto-update its info based on the time the game's brought back into focus, doing all its calculations at once. -Or for multiplayer games, this is much simpler since the client isn't really doing anything but acting as an interface between the user and the server, so whether or not the client's browser is permitting the game to run (at 1fps or 60) is irrelevant - but not here, because there's no server calculating things; it's all done locally.

The single-player method is possible, but unfortunately, not trivial to implement (and would need to be double-checked and probably changed every single game update), whereas running the game in its own browser window (rather than tab) is trivial and has the same effect (though it may still force the game to pause if it's minimized -- haven't checked). There may be other workarounds I'm not thinking of or familiar with, though...

Both of these games listed are very interesting.

on the OPs game I do not ike if you are not on the site it stops mining

Yeah... It's been a real hassle trying to get that to work right and it doesn't display properly. After updating, it's supposed to first try to force the browser page to refresh by itself, and if that fails (I'd assume because the browser disallows the game from doing that), notify the user to refresh manually. If something gets too screwy with updating, clicking "Ignore the update" should let you play, but it'll be an old version. I had to disable the "Next" and "Load Game" buttons during an update (and after download since the update won't take effect until after a refresh) to ensure the game would actually be updated.

Thanks for report.

I lost my saved game? The button for load saved game is grayed out.

Edit: Nevermind, for some reason (bug?) I couldn't click on the button when it said that the game was updated on the main page with a notification. Refreshing fixed it