Server Help

General Questions - Biller

Cancer+ - Wed Mar 21, 2007 5:38 pm
Post subject: Biller

Well, I am a newb at the whole biller thing. Got the zone set up and everything, just curious about the biller. I am not really making a zone, I just want to learn about the biller, maybe host in the near future. I have searched on these forums for something that would help me but didn't find anything.

Anyways, can anyone show me a site or documentation or something on how to set the biller up and make it good and running.

Thanks.

Maverick - Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:33 pm
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There are two main billers for subgame:
- subbill
- Catid's SubSpace Billing Server

The first comes with the standard server package but is not recommended for use since it uses your CPU for 100% when used. It also doesn't feature a ban(g) feature.

The second one is recommended but has its quirks but works quite well once you get the hang of it. It features a ban system, chat system with owning capabilities (but disallows staff chats) and a few more that I can't name right now.

Cancer+ - Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:35 pm
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Thanks Mav, but I already downloaded it. I am just not sure what to do from there. Do I start Catid's biller and then Subgame and it should work? Or do I have to mess with the INI, etc.

Maverick - Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:38 pm
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You should always scan through the ini and check the settings if you should modify it. There are certainly a few settings that need to be changed. For example the IP/Port and biller password (that need to be the same as the one in your server.ini).

Once you are sure you got everything done right you can try to run the SSBilling2.exe first and then subgame.

You will probably run into an error message at the subgame console. Do a search on this forum and the wiki for the error message to see how to fix it.

Good luck

Cancer+ - Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:52 pm
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Alright, well it says it is connected, but I'm getting a debug error.

Run-time check failure #2 - stack around the variable 'buffer' was corrupted.

It is talking about the SSBilling2.exe

It says press retry to debug it. I do that and then it doesn't work.

This is when I try to enter the zone.

Maverick - Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:11 pm
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That's odd, I never got such a problem.

What operating system do you have? XP/2003 ?
Are you sure you extracted SSBilling2.exe and the subbill.ini ?
If you checked all that then it is probably a problem with a subgame .dll or a windows .dll :/

Maybe someone else here knows the fix.

BDwinsAlt - Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:12 pm
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This may be becuase your running from the same network. I've heard of it crashing like that. Try getting a friend to login or go somewhere else to do it. It has never done that to me.

Cancer+ - Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:35 pm
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Edit: Nevermind, I got it all working now. Thanks alot.

I still have to use a "registration form" ? Can anyone help me out on that?

The message is this...

WARNING: You have not sent registration form data. Some commands
will not function and some settings will not be saved.
To send registration form data, enter any zone on the network with Subspace

Cyan~Fire - Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:46 am
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Just do as it says, enter any zone on the network with the VIE client.

You don't need to, though.

Cheese - Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:21 am
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was going to ask that myself...

any known way to disable it?

Cancer+ - Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:06 am
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I don't have a VIE client.

And why don't I need to?

Cheese - Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:06 am
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almost noone has the vie client xD

thats why i want it disabled.

Maverick - Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:10 am
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I only see that message when I do ?man ?

Anyhow, you can ignore it, it isn't important.

You can disable it by editing the biller (code-wise) and recompiling it.

Cyan~Fire - Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:40 am
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It's not some artificial limit that catid put into his biller. It's a real limit that commands such as ?details won't work because the biller has no clue about your name or email if you haven't sent in a reg form.

Cancer+ - Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:38 am
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Yeah, I seen that ?details don't work. Is there any other ones that won't work? No other way to fix it than editing it?

Animate Dreams - Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:57 am
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There are other problems... like ?info doesn't work in AS3 zones, because it's an AS3 command. I assume ?alias wouldn't work if you had the alias module loaded. But those are just AS3 conflictions. Hopefully, Doc will finish his biller soon, and all AS3 zones can just use SkyBill.

L.C. - Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:49 am
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Quote:

?details

All the commands have worked perfectly fine for me. :\ Strange?

Cyan~Fire - Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:00 am
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I looked through the source, and I think details is the only one that won't work at all. Others (alias, etc.) are limited slightly.

Cancer+ - Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:49 pm
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Ok, so will only lvl 0 ops see that message or other ops as well?

Maverick - Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:09 pm
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every player does