Volunteers for testing Census and Excise Office

[Fliggerty]

The Census and Excise Office is well under way in development.  Most of the base functionality of it is working now.

Probably sometime this weekend I will be opening it up for a closed BETA (more like ALPHA honestly) test.  I would like to have volunteers for this.

I will send you an archive file that contains a Morrowind plugin, an exe program, and instructions on how to use it all.  There's a number of steps to get it set up, but we have simplified it as much as we can.  It's really not hard to do.

MWSE is not required at this moment, but it will be once we get a few more features implemented.

So please either respond here, or send me a PM if you would like to join in!

--Fligg

[Exorince]

I'll volunteer

Quick question, all I need is a direct HTTP connection right?  because at the moment my network admin is going ape shit on me and he has blocked every single port except for basic HTTP, POP3 and a couple more :/

[peachykeen]

It should work through a simple HTTP connection (if you can access the internet through a browser, CnE should have no problems). I didn't code anything funny in it, just using cURL's default port settings and such. It should also work through proxies, as long as they're set up in Windows, but I can't guarantee that. I do know it sends POST data, and receives a small amount of data back from the server. It uses HTTP for that.

As for setup and use, I don't think there's too many steps (unless you made the plugin crazy ). Right now you can't upload during the game, only through the GUI. That means no scripted upload spell, but no MWSE dependency. It might be a good idea to leave it like that, optionally, for people who don't use MWSE. However, that limits what can be uploaded.


To upload, all you have to do is save your game, run the CnE program, click a save, click upload, and it's done.

I have two things left to do before the exe is ready for this.

[Exorince]

There should be no problem then

I was only asking if it used some unusual ports or connections

[Chazz of Blades]

I volunteer

[Tes96 Modding Pelagiad Expanded interiors]

What exactly have you made, Fliggerty? This is a plugin for the excise office? What will it change in the game?

[Jac Making my way back]

Read the WIP thread here: http://www.bethsoft.com/bgsforums/index ... pic=980182

[Mireneye]

Volunteering =)

This is pretty neat stuff. Will there be some in-game thingy to show when you earn "achievements" eventually?

Cheers!

[Fliggerty]

Actually, yes.  I just realized today that this is the basis for yet another nifty mod.  Something like "Advanced Statistics" or so.  It will use the data collected for the badges here, and display all of that data in the game in some way.

[Dragon_Lance ...on a reconnaissance mission]

Yep, I'm in with my druid.

[Marbred]

I volunteer, if you still need volunteers.

[Haplo]

As you guessed over at your ESF thread, I volunteer I am willing to test out both "valid" characters and "cheater" characters if there's a need for testing saved games that have utilized cheats or the console.

[Mireneye]

Personally I was thinking of making a really dirty mw that corrupts a save really badly, and then try to upload just to see how things go.

[peachykeen]

Chances are the CnE program will crash. If libESM runs into bad data trying to load, when you click the save, it'll most likely return an error in boost and die.

[Fliggerty]

I've sent the package off to those who have volunteered so far.  Still willing to have more testers!

[Pluto]

I gladly offer to test this.

[Arkngt]

I'm also in. Sounds very cool. I'll PM you my mail if you've lost it.

[Teclis]

I'm eager to try this out. I hope this doesn't require any special skills from me.

[Fliggerty]

Nope, no special skills.  It's all pretty straight forward.  

[The Pessimist]

Wait, was I supposed to post here before uploading a character? Oops...    Anyway, uploading a character with a ' in it's name causes a / to appear in the name for some reason... Wait, if it's a closed alpha, how did I get it anyway? Or are the people who found you on twitter special?

EDIT: Not a /, a \... My mistake.

EDIT2: wait, my health is 49/10? Ad my fatigue is 163/150? Is this because of GCD?

EDIT3: What do I do with the alpha questionare thing? Just PM it to you, or post it on this thread?

[Fliggerty]

Twitterers are able to join in the test since they have been given all of the links.

We'll look at the health stuff, thanks for pointing it out.  PM the answers to me please.  

[Gallade664]

I'd like to help test, can I download from the Census and excise link, cause it has a "Download Census Uploader" button?

[Arkngt]

EDIT2: wait, my health is 49/10? Ad my fatigue is 163/150? Is this because of GCD?

I have the same issue and I'm also using GCD.

BTW, how do you upload an avatar of the char as Fliggerty has?

[Marbred]

I have the same issue and I'm also using GCD.

Same here.
Also, I just noticed that there are a few 0 skills with characters, including mine. Namely Alch and Security.

[Teclis]

Unarmored also shows as a 0.
I just noticed that also my health, fatigue values are wrong, and I'm not using GCD.