Battlezone 1

I just got an email regarding the fact that I joined without posting. I realise that phpBB boards (including mine) have come under stress of rampant spam botnet issues so I'm just making this post to prove that I'm not one of those annoying things. Err, as if the animated captcha and plethora of adverts during registration wasn't proof enough, heh.

However the only reason I "joined" the forum was to view replies to a post regarding booting TRO via Microsoft's ACM. Without being logged in, visitors can only see the first post of any topic. This has me curious as to why that is given that if someone posts merely to read something (e.g. troubleshooting TRO on a 64-bit system) but never post; does their account get deleted or somesuch merely due to that fact? Because it's actually my situation.

Quite frankly I'm not sure if I'll be posting much here as it is, but it'd be nice to have the account in case it becomes necessary. I just hope it doesn't get deactivated due to inactivity.

Welcome!

As far as I know, BZ 1.4 and RO are identical when it comes to issues they have on new systems. So if you know how to troubleshoot BZ, you can do the same thing for RO. It's of course heavily dependent on your hardware and operating system, so posting your system specifications in Technical Support would be a good idea.

That's not true, so your whole post, based on it, doesn't make sense.

Then perhaps I'll take that as a sign that I'm not welcome here. If it wasn't true, I would not have bothered to register in the first place. I actually had thought I'd get my question answered, seeing your other posts made me think you were helpful nearly all the time. Eh, I've been wrong before.

I'll just say that BZ is a great classic and it's great to have been playing it again. It's just a shame that the primary forum is moderated by those who would sooner deny something is true than to admit they possibly made a configuration mistake or something. Unless I'm mistaken, you seem to be a moderator at least.

Anyway, I went to visit this topic when looking for further details on how to use the ACM in order to launch TRO. I'd already gotten BZ1.5 to work without problems but it didn't include TRO so I had to use the 1.4 download. (Though I guess that's not true either and I just didn't see TRO1.5 and therefore I'm still making no sense. Right?)

My point is that my initial issue was solved just by registering in order to view the other posts in that topic. I just wanted to know why people had to register in order to see them is all. I wasn't expecting to be told that I'm havering, making things up for no reason. It's quite rare I get treated like a troll. But if that's how you want to play it, go ahead and ban me like any common troll. I really don't have the patience for this kind of nonsense.

Sorry for wasting your time. Yikes.

I just now logged out and viewed this topic, and I can see all posts. Try not to make stuff up in the future.

What part is not clear? You are not limited to first post only, when not logged in. The forum doesn't even have that option. Instead saying that I'm in denial, you should log out and re-check.

Among many things, I made those installers you are currently using, so even when I'm not playing this silly game called "things are not what they are", you can't say I'm not being helpful.

Get your facts straight, then ask any question and I'll gladly answer.

So I checked again. Lo and behold I can indeed see all posts when not logged in. Magic? Coincidence? Apparently that's what I am supposed to believe. All I know is that before I registered I could NOT see all posts after the first.

I appreciate you making the installers and any other contributions you've made to the legacy Battlezone. However I don't appreciate being told I am making things up for no reason, nor do I appreciate being treated as if I joined a forum just to make an issue over nothing.

The facts as I see them are that I only registered to see replies to a topic containing helpful information (written by you nonetheless) and that instead of getting helpful answers as to why, I am instead told that I am making it all up. As far as I see it, you're the troublemaker here. Obviously that goes both ways, but the facts remain the same. My reasons for joining are as I stated them, not to make this into an ordeal.

I suspected, but now I'm sure; you have serious issues. When realizing your stupidity, instead apology for everythng you said about me, I get that?! Go seek help. In the meantime, I'll limit your account, so you could see how that really looks like (when logged in).

FYI, it is impossible to restrict your guest account without affecting other guest accounts. Meaning, if what you said was true then all guests would have experienced the same. But nobody did. If you have a medical history (delusions?), I'll apologize to you and remove restrictions. So, do you?

So instead of including the other part of that statement pointing out that you obviously see me as the troublemaker as much as it is likewise, I get told I'm stupid and that I have mental issues. That's real mature. Do you always take things out of context like that to make yourself feel like the Big Man?

Apparently it's too much to expect of someone to think of a possible server cache fluke or something of such nature that would cause someone browsing to think they need to register, et cetera. Especially with all these adverts floating around -- I'm not complaining about their presence, mind you, I'm just saying that certain adverts CAN cause one-off issues. I've experienced them before, just never with a CMS like phpBB and especially not affecting post views. If it wasn't for your supercilious attitude I would have offered that as a possibility before now.

Heck I'm even willing to admit it could have been because I use Opera as my main browser on Linux. Chromium (and Google Chrome, same thing) sometimes have issues that make the browser unreliable on Linux boxes, and Opera has a bit more flexibility. Anyway it's a thought. Again I would've offered it as a possibility if I had not been dogged with an onslaught of accusations and insults rather than actual helpful information.

Oh and before you go and point out that I'm making things up again, I run a dual-boot machine. I have WinXP Pro 64bit on one partition and Linux on another.

FYI - Don't expect an apology from me for something I had no intention of starting. I only asked an honest question which resulted in nothing but false accusations, and now this.

EDIT: I will however apologise for being long-winded, so to speak. I can understand if it seemed like I initially blew things out of proportion, but it's how I took your reply saying that I had reported something which wasn't true.

Really people, just chill. What the hell is the point of getting caught in the popular trap of finger pointing? No big deal, so zharrteth you just screwed up on laying out your facts, or maybe there really was something with the forum that made it appear just so. Im no senior member but I hate conflicts!

Respect due. Although since I've zero reason to be posting here anymore thanks to these two elitists, at least someone here has the decency to see things both ways and see the silliness for what it really is. It's sometimes hard to believe some fluke of technology could lead otherwise reputable people into throwing insults around, sad really, but at the end of the day there's just no point.

I still appreciate everything done by all the senior members here, including those originally involved with the game--even if some are indeed quick to judge and condescend. I'd at least like to apologise to any others who might end up reading this silly thread as I honestly never intended for this to go all awry left and right like it did.