Banning Player's in 1.3

[General BlackDragon]

ai.autopilot

Yeah, i miss that.

I vote to re-enable it in bzone.exe

[Ded10c]

I never knew about that, when did it stop working?

[Zero Angel]

I never knew about that, when did it stop working?

PB3 at least

[General BlackDragon]

It still works, but only in bz2Edit.exe

[Ded10c]

I never knew about that, when did it stop working?

PB3 at least

Makes sense,that's about when I showed up.

[Feldheld]

Unfortunately the banlist.ini file gets overridden (= set back to default) with every patch. So better make a copy of it before patching the game.

[Red Spot]

Since the adviced install routine is to use a clean install, it should not matter as long as you follow that advice.

[General BlackDragon]

I never install 1.3 on a "clean" install

As long as you upgrade from an OLDER patch, it renames the addon/saved/logs/ folders involved, and, unless you've done something REALLY odd like put something in data/, it should work fine.

[Red Spot]

Doesnt it even do so when you install over the basegame (renaming folders)?
I recall it does, wasnt sure so simply didnt mention it.

[General BlackDragon]

Yes it does it on a clean install too.

But I found it doesn't do it if you install on a NEWER patch, like if you try to install PB3 over PB6.4.

[MrTwosheds]

Nobody wastes time trying to make software reverse compatible, downgrading or back patching is just not something people should do.

[General BlackDragon]

Pretty much

[Red Spot]

Yes it does it on a clean install too.

But I found it doesn't do it if you install on a NEWER patch, like if you try to install PB3 over PB6.4.

I actually find that weird.
As if the code says:

if 'addon' = empty or lesser PB
properly upgrade
else if 'addon' = higher PB
screw user
end if

Why on earth would you want to code something like that and not simply deny the installer to be used on a higher PB?

[GSH]

That's odd behavior. I thought I coded it so that it checks for a file w/ a specific name, exactly. (No nonsense of trying to find earlier/later or greater/lesser, just equal or not). And if the current PB's check file isn't there, then rename off addon and start anew.

-- GSH

[General BlackDragon]

Ah, that might have been the case. IIRC I was trying to install a test build onto a slightly newer version.