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grand_diablo
January 6, 2006, 11:48 am
Strange bugs appeared these days...

At first my Soldat didnt want to start at all (Soldat.exe kept running in the background, but the game itself didnt show up). Then I started it another time while the first start was still running as task. Now it did start (and I could close the first Soldat.exe in the background), but showed me the registration screen after a "banner something couldnt be loaded" msg. Tho, it ran as registered version, as its supposed to (a clanmate of mine reported that his Soldat was suddenly running as unregistered version). After a few times of starting it twice, it now starts at once, but opens a internet browser window calling http://cpanel24.fuitadnet.com/suspended.page/ (which gives out a 403 Forbidden error).

I suppose it has something to do with the banner showing up for unregistered users, but why on earth does it affect registered users?

b00stA
January 6, 2006, 9:29 pm
http://archive.forums.soldat.pl/topic.php?topic_id=30760

[03:02:14] <elephanthunter> And the reminder window just is set to visible=false for regged users

(Michal should understand, but..) This is most likely the reason why it happens to unregistered users too. The whole nag screen is loaded for everyone, registered or unregistered, however it's only SHOWN for unregistered users.

Elephant_Hunter
January 7, 2006, 9:16 am
That's just a theory. I don't really understand the inner-workings of Soldat :) If at all possible, MM might hard-code a link to his site instead, which would 'redirect' to an ad site. This way he could control the ads without updating Soldat or depending on an unreliable ad site.

I will create a redirect for you in PHP if you're up to it :D