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If your'e getting the orange handprint and then seeing the galaxy map, followed by a crash chances are you've not run enbconfig in admin mode. EnBConfig being as dated as it is writes its settings to your registry, something that User Account Control (UAC) a.k.a. the annoying little pop up "Are you sure that you're sure that you want to let this program do something?" prevents all changes in system directories, program files, and the registry. (The latter being the key to this ) You can find enbconfig in teh game client's folder under the subdirectory "ebconfig", on a default win7 installation this would be C:\Program Files\EA Games\Earth & Beyond\ebconfig\ or on a 64 bit version of win 7/vista: C:\Program Files (x86)\EA Games\Earth & Beyond\ebconfig\

You'll know eventually, that's how I see it.

We're actually actively working on a turn-in system to power the repository among several other cool features/quests/missions/jobs/andotherstuff

Give me your TE's name and I will glance at it tonigth to see what's preventing your progression.

you make a fair point but I'm not sure if I checked for available credits at the start of the mission or not right off. In either case 222k is more than enough. What's your character name, Nihu?

Got plenty of credits? There's a credit cost.

If we told you that, it wouldn't be much of a surprise now would it? Better to just give hints so you can wonder when it'll happen I think...

Mimir and others: Please do vote, and get everyone you know to vote. This will be helpful because I plan to have a look at this (faction system game-wide) as one of the next two major things I'm doing.

There's no looting test that would require percentages anywhere near as high as they were, no player is at fault of anything really. You were just doing what was there, this was something that probably shouldn't have been "tested" in a sector where it would go public when data was pushed to the live server for a patch (this is in reality what happened). Tests like this occur usually in our test sector, that way there's no way for a player to reach it unless they are part of the beta team or a member of staff.

Assuming they mean my team member, Peteburn. I'll ask him about it. You may as well sell or space them though, since they'll be lost anyway. Appearances can be deceiving. If you see one of us out there doing something like that, it's not to give anyone items. We're most likely being shown something that someone suspects to be a bug, keep in mind that if we wanted to give someone something it's a simple matter of a slash command for us. Sometimes this does require testing, these AAs are a good example, they should have a low drop rate (0.05-2% or so to be accurate to live). To determine if it's working as intended we would have to harvest at least 100 to get an accurate spawn percentage that wasn't too small of a sample.

Yes, that's correct. As for the e-mail function like I said before each user can choose to disable it. I'd need to know the user name and I could have a look.

also if it's still int he taskbar and you're running Windows Vista or Seven, try putting the launcher in Windows XP compatibility mode to see if that will make a difference.

Next time you see it happen record anything you can, then log out of Windows and back in, I assume you're on vista or seven. It's been seen there before, presumably something with the User Account Control, but precisely what we haven't yet tracked down.

Probably using the e-mail buttons, I think they may all be disabled aside from administrators. Just use the forum PM functions. Go to someone's profile page and there should be a link that says "Send me a message" under their picture in the upper left side. This will enable you to privately message someone on the staff. Members can also opt to disable the e-mail function to everyone else except administrators.

Sure, how does March sound?

Oh we do now, ever since some of the past incidents we've made daily backups since, even if we were to go and delete the whole db right now, the farthest back you would go is 12:00am CET (think that's the right timezone) of the previous day. @Phorlaug: I'll just put it this way, when we ask for people on the PTR, show up so that we get our testing needs to confirm things, and as long as that happens, there won't be another wipe until the day we go live barring some catastrophe that is somehow unrecoverable (like the simultaneous failure of 5 hard drives since we have a proper raid config with them now. Which of course would require teh datacenter to more or less be underwater....)

aha but systems with UAC don't treat the first user account as a full administrator. The purpose of UAC is to assign administrator accounts two tokens. A default token that treats them in some ways like an administrator which is used for most actions and a token that comes into play when they are requesting to modify something that could be dangerous to the system (registry, program files, etc.). When it has to request this token, this is why you receive the "Do you want to allow this program to modify this computer?" In XP what you said is entirely spot on though, there's nothing to interfere. A virus scanner shouldn't make a lick of difference to the game except at installation time since it's placing files and writing in the registry. I'll have to go look over tech specs, but the only differences I recall between home premium and pro are that mainly you lose access to use the XP emulation mode, some of the security features, and the price with the home version.

That is very strange. I've had Win7 64bit professional since the day it came out. My files don't require that change to run. In fact, all I have to do is run the install as admin to make sure everything is modified by the existing installers and run the config. After that I can log right in. I wonder if anyone else can provide their experiences? Knowing what causes it might allow to fix it up.

Alright guys, my current project is actually something else that everyone will find beneficial but I can see my words had a profound impact. First, I don't know that someone was testing it, thus the (possibly now) thing; however, I know some of you are disillusioned with how it's working so here's what I have to say, if one of you would be so kind as to gather all of these opinions about what would make faction better and make a short list for me, I will set it as the next thing on my list to review and improve where we can. I don't want anyone to have to GRIND because I know what it's like and it's a outdated concept in modern MMORPGs for the most part. Discuss it to death, like... U.N. Summit on Faction Grinding. I promise it'll be the next thing I look at and we'll fix it all up. (Note that all suggestions may not make it in, but they will be taken into account to try to make it all more interesting)

Not sure how these rumors get started, but yes Cdel is definitely spot on. There's no plan to do any more wiping if it can be helped for certain. Even if we have a dev show up in the main room of TS and say something like that, we don't really mean it, its usually just a joke. Let's put it this way for the future, if you don't see a post from an LDEV or Admin that says we're wiping, you can assume we're not and that its just a rumor. (Short of catastrophe with the db or something. )

When we go to actually test faction stuff (read: possibly now) it may be necessary to test each facet of the system even if some of the rest of it doesn't work Grendwal, if we didn't do it this way we'd never find the bugs that do exist. We realize it's annoying, but we want it to work. The only way we can make it work is to provide something for everyone to complain about, because that tells us where we went wrong. If we mask the problem indefinitely by allowing everyone to use those gates for convenience we'll never get anywhere.

Based on the original except.txt you posted for me, the fix was actually the enbconfig run as admin or it sure looks like it was. You were exceeding the budget(s) your computer had set would be my suspicion, either way it was causing the program to read protected OS memory and crashing you. I've never found the compatibility changes to be useful on a Win7 system, only Vista. Though CDel deals with a lot more of the Tech support than the rest of us do.

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ms.net make sure you have 2.0 and 3.5. vc++ redist 2008 (required for net7Proxy.exe)

Make sure you also run enbconfig as admin, both that and the game client write to the registry to save your settings, UAC doesn't take too kindly to anything writing to the registry, even if run as admin it will still ask you, if not run as admin it will just ignore any command to write to registry. At least such was what I found while working on some stuff for this project.