Here we are again to the thing I hate most: Updating the game. Not only that this sucks because I have to upload a lot of files via Dial Up, but it is also annoying that I have to update all the mirrors. Of course, I don't have to use the Dial Up for the mirrors, I just upload it on one server then take it via wget or ftp from that server and put it on the mirrors. But it's still a pain in the ass.
However, the biggest problem is making sure that the new update does not crash people's computers. For example, we had big problems with Win98 and XP computers, due to a bug in the Iconv library. Wytter rewrote one of the functions and now it works fine. We also had a problem with the Win98 users, because of the way the command line was processed. That bug is fixed as well.
Yesterday we had two preliminary update tests, the second one being almost OK, with the mention that we forgot to put some files, so we will need yet another release candidate. If that works well, we will finally update the main server (so far, the tests are done on a test server, which is pretty much an updated copy of the main server).
There is one more issue with one of the users reporting a crash when entering a building. Now I have to see if others have similar problems, and if they do try to to see WTF is wrong.
If others have no problems, then I have to see why it crashes for that user. Might be because he didn't update properly, or maybe because he has a drivers problem.