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  The problem with disconnecting is that often doing so will hang the game. Its a glitch that pops up from time to time. The game thinks someone is still playing and won't allow another to enter the game till it's un-hung. (usually manually by the sysop) I have seen games stay hung on some systems for 6 months to a year, as the sysops rarely check OOII.
 
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Convolution BBS
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game reset about 1 1/2 weeks ago, come on down!

There is an active game at convolution.us - great BBS there.  Would like to see more players there (only 3 atm, reset about a week and a half ago)

 
    Actually.. if you found a BBs where OK is dead.. that probably means that there are players there to play against/with. I'd just drop the sysop a note and ask him to re-set the game.  What BBs was it ?
 
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  Howdy folks.     I recently ran into a bug in one of the normal OOII games I play. I loged out of a game on Convolution BBS. (version 1.20) and now the game boots me when I try to play again. I am able to plug in my game password, see the days interest gained, see a charecter screen of my stats and inventory. After that screen, it boots me out. I am past where it would boot me if I was trying to play a round too close to a previous round. I see no error message. I have talked to the sysop and he has manually run maintoo.exe and he can log into OOII with no problem. For a test I made a dupe account on that bbs and was able to start a new character and play it. Since I know the passwords to my own bases I took the dupe to a few of my bases and strangely on one base was told I used a wrong password. On the next base I was admitted. After gaining entry to that base, (the same base my main charecter is camped in) I was booted from the game on that account, and now I have two accounts that can't play OOII.
 

   Any ideas on what causes this?  I was prepping for a run on OK and this is frustrating me.   Thanks in advance
 
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This is a strange one.  Do you think it might be related to the boot you get when you pick the last item in a base?  With the last item bug you can usually log back in though.

A few minutes ago I was at telnet:\\bbs.memphistw.org playing OOII (even though someone beat Overkill a long time ago).
I was walking around on map 3 of Purgator mapset, near the mid-top left area where all the pits are, and was in such a hurry to get to
the hole down (to grab more duroplast hehe...4 days: 5 bases breached/looted, 1 destroyed) I didn't even notice I had 2 hp left.
Suddenly a Hexman appears....I have 3 choices...

1) Try to fight him with 2 hp...if I survived the LR hit, I could surrender half my crystals and live....hmm no way!
2) Full Surrender...and lose my nearly 20k crystals?  No way!
3) Try to Flee, and get shot in the back...no thanks!

So how did I get away with all my crystals and my life?

Simple....DISCONNECT!  Hehe...old-school trick.  You then wait 4 minutes or so and log back on (unless your plays-per-day is 1)
and you're right there where you left off before the combat.

This is not how the game was intended to be played and what I would consider to be cheating.    Unfortunately there are several ways to cheat int he game, and even more unfortunate is that there are many willing to take advantage of these things.

Are there plans to make this game multiplayer?  That would definitely be an excellent addition to this game..

No, neither the game design nor the code base could handle the conversion.  It would take an amazing amount of refactoring that is basically "unaffordable".

On the other hand the port to C++ was designed with the ability to handle hundreds of simultaneous users.  Indeed the Operation: Overkill Internet Server already supports multiplayer.

Um what?  Port to C++?  So the real answer to the question is not "No" but "Yes"?

Hi, I haven't played this game since the early 90s or something... I tried one of the games on the bbs list but it said overkill was already dead.  Does anyone have a fresh game available with overkill still alive?