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Xenar
2003-07-30, 07:33 PM
http://gregorywe.netfirms.com/Screenshots/Screenshots.htm

Click on the PopLock.jpg link

Hmm let's see here... shall I got to Sanctuary, Sanctuary, or, uh... Sanctuary?
CrazyCrazy
2003-07-30, 07:45 PM
that's what happens when 3/4 of the subscribers play VS to try out the new toy.:p
1024
2003-07-30, 07:47 PM
pwned.
sniper4evr26
2003-07-30, 08:00 PM
hehe didnt really think that was possible, seemed like just an idea to me :D
Cyskoraeban
2003-07-30, 08:45 PM
My god I would be so pissed I'd cancel my subscription
Strygun
2003-07-30, 09:02 PM
I don't think that's possible.

I was looking for signs of image tampering.. only thing I could find was that some of the lock icons are different than the others.

I don't think it's possible to Empire Pop lock ALL continents.
Streamline
2003-07-30, 09:36 PM
Prolly just a bug or some crazy shit the devs are doing to toy with our minds. Last night at around 3am i saw every base on Solsar drain within a few minutes. The entire continent was green.
Queensidecastle
2003-07-30, 09:39 PM
This happens if you crash to the desktop after the hart takes off and you quickly reload the game trying to get back in
Xenar
2003-07-30, 11:08 PM
Well I can tell you for sure I did not doctor it... took a regular screenshot opened it up in paint, converted it to jpeg to save space.

Probably is a bug, but still was annoying and surprising as heck. Weird thing was I was about ready to drop my pod into one of the continents then it kicked me out (back to global) cause it just got pop locked, so dunno.

Once again, I assure you, this is a REAL SS. It COULD be due to a bug however.
Incompetent
2003-07-30, 11:12 PM
It's gotta be a bug, or a doctored SS, no way in hell that could happen with the numbers these days.
Xenar
2003-07-31, 12:09 AM
I should've turned the weather on so it could be more obvious that it's a real SS, but oh well. I hate having weather on cause it obstructs a large portion of the map so you can't see a lot of what you want to.
Trebor95
2003-07-31, 12:49 AM
At least the sanctuars wasn't pop locked unlike on Monday on werner when the sanc became pop locked and no-one on the TR could log in
1024
2003-07-31, 01:26 AM
After looking at the SS carefully i have come to this conclusion.

http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/PopLock.jpg
Xenar
2003-07-31, 01:43 AM
wtf are you talking about - duh the picture's not gonna be totally clear cause I converted it to jpeg which distorts the image. :rolleyes:

Bitmaps are MB's in size so it'd make much more sense to convert it to a smaller format (~200kB) so people can see what I saw, rather than have them overanalyze a screenshot to see if it was doctored or not.

And after taking a look at the SS myself more carefully, I have determined that it definitely has to be due to a bug (I think someone above posted that this could happen if you crashed on the HART - which I think happened, I remember boarding it and then crashing and logging back in ASAP to make sure I didn't miss it). If you look at Forseral and Hossin, it would be VERY unlikely that it'd be pop-locked considering there's absolutely no VS bases on it.

So, picture of a bug, yes... doctored SS, no. Can someone please back me up here and explain that this is a bug, perhaps repeatable?
Xenar
2003-07-31, 01:46 AM
Originally posted by Queensidecastle
This happens if you crash to the desktop after the hart takes off and you quickly reload the game trying to get back in


Yes, that's EXACTLY what happened to me... I was entering the HART and I crashed, then immediately I logged back in and caught it before it left. Then I saw this :) I just happened to take a SS of it and upload it.

And I reitterate my point about bitmaps being converted to jpegs resulting in being distorted. Try it out for yourself. Do you know how the size gets reduced so much? It doesn't just magically happen.

AND to disprove you, take a look at the in-game map closely. Look at the area where you said "darkness" existed. What's that? Oh right, there's a dark spot there! Duh! And the lightness? Oh, yeah that's bright blue, for the water that's along the coast!
Joe-Azlin
2003-07-31, 02:12 AM
Originally posted by Xenar
AND to disprove you, take a look at the in-game map closely. Look at the area where you said "darkness" existed. What's that? Oh right, there's a dark spot there! Duh! And the lightness? Oh, yeah that's bright blue, for the water that's along the coast! [/B]

PWNED!!!!!!!!!!
ThundaHawkPS
2003-07-31, 09:46 AM
It's a bug that happens when you crash as the hart leaves. If you relog afterwards it spawns you on the roof of the shuttle building. I've seen it happen twice.
Xenar
2003-07-31, 12:32 PM
Yep we've determined that that's what happened... and thanks as you're another person who can back me up in that the SS I took was not doctored since this has happened to other people.
Queensidecastle
2003-07-31, 12:35 PM
Like I said before this is a CTD bug after the HART takes off. If you load back into the game fast enough, you will come back in to the Hart drop map screen and all the conts will be locked. You can only spawn at the sanc and when you do you crash again. When you come back you are on the roof of the Hart building. Even after jumping off this building you cannot get into your map screen and must reload again to get all back to normal
1024
2003-07-31, 01:50 PM
Originally posted by Xenar
AND to disprove you, take a look at the in-game map closely. Look at the area where you said "darkness" existed. What's that? Oh right, there's a dark spot there! Duh! And the lightness? Oh, yeah that's bright blue, for the water that's along the coast!


Is a continent black?
Xenar
2003-07-31, 02:36 PM
Obviously you didn't understand my reply...

Looks like you're the type of person who needs a visual representation, so I'll help you out here - look at this SS of the in-game map in which I pointed out to you the terrain which lies undernearth the lock, which would be partially visible under the "arc" of it:

http://gregorywe.netfirms.com/Screenshots/Screenshots.htm

Click on "ForTheIgnorant.JPG"

So, would you care to enlighten us with any more of your ingenious thoughts? Or do I need to explain it to you further?
Xenar
2003-07-31, 03:01 PM
If you need any more evidence... look at the same link again ( http://gregorywe.netfirms.com/Screenshots/Screenshots.htm ) and click on the two new images - LockedWeather.bmp, and LockedWeatherNoSOI.bmp.

I just got this bug again (CTD on HART, relog in), so this time I took SS with the weather on and I didn't convert it to Jpeg so the colors are true. Examine the SS as long as you want it's totally legitimate.

Second one, takes away the SOI. Basically same SS as the first one except no SOI to show that I didn't simply edit the image.

Edit: Stupid free webspace... won't let me show images over 256kB, the bitmaps are 3.6MB! I'll convert them to Jpeg in a minute so you can see them, but of course the colors will be slightly distorted again.

Edit: Ok converted to Jpeg so now you can see them... same file name with just the .JPG extension.
Happyn00dlez
2003-07-31, 09:21 PM
That is pretty funny.. There must of been 4 gold dots on that server! Amazing!
Xenar
2003-07-31, 09:50 PM
Well it wasn't all pop locked, it was a bug as I found out, but yeah Emerald (my server) is almost always 3-4 dots.
Azenn
2003-07-31, 10:42 PM
Haha... pretty funny and yes the blackness is there on the continent Forseral