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Quote from: Adeon on March 19, 2010, 08:32:10 am

Quote from: lokis on March 19, 2010, 12:16:06 am

i'm having some problems, i logged into my server, everything seems ok, i can chat, but... the commands to the game does not work, simply nothing happens when i input something to the game, but the chat works normal...

anyone has any idea what the problem could be?

When you resize the terminal and see your nick to the right, does it turn red when you press CTRL+A? Means you have input.

And in case this does happen but you still get no input...

Take your configuration file (see manual) and write "VERBOSITY: 1" there. It will make any keypresses from clients to be outputted to the server console. See if the keypresses go through (almost certainly will...but I guess it could be double-checked). I've heard about this bug(?) once before, but at the moment I have no idea what could be causing it or if it's really dfterm related. Also check if input works on the same machine where you run dfterm and in DF window itself. If nothing works, I could take your information on what software you have (Operating system/DF version and dfterm version at least) for future reference if this comes up again.

I am also having this problem, so here's my info.

Server side:
Dwarf Fortress 0.31.01
DFTerm 0.1.3a
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit

Client side:
Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit
Running telnet in gnome-terminal
I also tried running it from the server machine via PuTTY with the same result.

I turned VERBOSITY up to 1 and verified that the server is indeed receiving the keypresses. Like lokis, I can use the chat interface, but when I hit Ctrl-A, my name goes red and I can't do anything.

I have tried both starting DF before launching DFTerm and launching from DFTerm. The game starts just fine and I can see the menu, but I can't interact with it.

When you upgrade to the latest version of the DFTerm, you must include the new 'glue' DLL and read the instructions.

My server blew up in the middle of the night apparently... So now we have some quite unhappy dorfs on the server. XD

It is back up and running now.

well that's a bummer, I knew getting a 64bit PC was a bad idea.

Considering that this is the only thing I have been unable to do so far with my 64bit computer... That is a bit hasty.

Run DF by itself and then exit. Try opening DFTerm and see if that works.

Features I think would be handy:

Send a bell to all terminals (or at least the administrator) whenever a new client connects and authenticates.
Have a 'chat hotkey' that you press when you want to chat when you have control, without giving up control. (when there are timers for control, this will be important.)
Showing the bandwidth usage/stats under where the client names are.
Instead of color, could we put standard IRC symbols for OP/Admin Voice and just regular users? that would make more sense to most people I would think.

Would it be possible to have it send a terminal bell command whenever someone connects to the server? I tried to edit the file, but it did not like when i put ^G into the line where you have 'CTRL+A' when the client connects.

VPN you say...

OpenVPN (or Hamachi) and you can map drives from anywhere so long as you have a semi-reliable internet connection. Just turn off saving every season, and your game never even knows it is running over the internet.

Quote from: Blargityblarg on March 13, 2010, 06:39:18 pm

I really only ever play DF off my USB. Portability outweighs save times.

Truth. And that it takes a whole season for DF to copy off a low-bandwidth USB drive. So...many...files...

If you guys would buy really high quality flash drives instead of the ones that are tossed in the bin at your local electronics store (or the ones you buy on ebay for really cheap from China) you would be amazed at how fast some drives are.

I have one from OCZ that gets me anywhere from 45-60MBS versus the 20-35MBS one that i bought in the bargain bin.