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EARTHDATE: June 5, 2016

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FEDTERM BUGS FIXED, NEW VERSION AVAILABLE

by Hazed

Two more bugs were found in FedTerm in the last few weeks, as well as one server bug, and Alan has fixed them all and provided a new version of the front-end.

Here’s a description of the bugs:

  • “Say” messages were not being displayed for people using non-FedTerm front-ends. This was an issue with the way the server was sending the messages so Alan fixed this soon after it was reported.
  • FedTerm was not saving all of the map data when you explored new planets. It turned out to be caused by apostrophes – the front-end wasn’t handling them correctly so as soon as the map contained one, all the locations after that were lost.
  • The new exchange page was not displaying commodities that were in balance correctly – that is, where the exchange both buys and sells at the same time. The exchange prices are now also displayed on the main display and the repeater on the exchange page. This means that not only do you have a record of the prices on your main display, but you will also have a record on disk if you have the logging switched on.

You can download an upgrade to FedTerm, which fixed the bugs, here: http://www.ibgames.net/fed2/fedterm/winupgrade.html. This is only if you have already installed new Fedterm and are using version 3.0.

If you haven’t yet switched to using new FedTerm, then you can download the full installation (which contains the new version 3.00.002) here: http://www.ibgames.net/fed2/fedterm/winfedterm.html.

Thanks to players Idiotjones and Jarin for reporting those bugs.

If you spot any more bugs (surely not!) then please email feedback@ibgames.com to tell us about them. Don’t forget to put Fed2 in the subject line.

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