Ascention Requirements Buggy

[The Real Me]

Hi guys,
I've been fighting with this thing for several days straight now, and just can't figure out what the problem is that it will not let me ascend.

It says I have all the requirements, but its just no go. Keeps running back in a circle to the original ascension page after I click for what race I want to become.

I've been playing for I guess about a year and a half, basically as a builder, and haven't ever gotten it to let me ascend yet. It was cute to me at first, to be so high in rank and the only person on the page that hadn't ascended and wasn't part of an alliance and was completely on my own... but the novelty wore off when I started getting massed a while back, and I'd like to be on a chain and maybe even in an alliance for some protection now.

I'm hesitant to post my exact stats because I'm such a sitting duck here with naq and soldiers coming in and no defense or even covert left after shipping my soldiers out preparing to ascend...

I'm all out of ideas tho!!
Tried more assets in every category than it said I needed even... still no go!

My last thought is that perhaps it lies when it says that the super trained count as trained soldiers???
"Total Trained Forces -- 1,828,892 (minimum 362,789 required)"
but as you can see, it seems stupid to train out another 362,789 soldiers just to test the theory.

I've got this message at the bottom of that same page too:
"You will need at least 1000 glory and reputation ( you have 15129 ) and 1800 Ascension Power Points ( you have 494926...yup 494926 )"

I've tried having the naq requirement in both the alpha site and out in the open, plus a few bil extra hoping it just couldn't count. lol

Any help would be appreciated, but please don't waste time posting a lot of silliness here if all your gona do is assume that I'm just some ignorant noob...
This ain't my first annoying bug in this game either...
and yeah, its getting pretty darn old hitting brick walls.
Shoot, most of my planets have been broken for months and months! Putting more naq into their attributes only raises the price of the next attribute level without giving it any more actual increase in usefulness.

[ramen07]

Did you check that you have enough UU? The first time I ascended I thought I had enough out, but I was short 2k Another time, I somehow thought that miners would count towards my UU, but they obviously don't, so I didn't have enough. Other than that, I don't know. What ascension is it?

[Clarkey]

Did you check that you have enough UU? The first time I ascended I thought I had enough out, but I was short 2k Another time, I somehow thought that miners would count towards my UU, but they obviously don't, so I didn't have enough. Other than that, I don't know. What ascension is it?

Considering he gets to the race options page (i.e. INDU, TOLAH etc) then he must have enough resources as it would not let him get that far.

As for what ascension, I assume it must be Prior because he said he hasn't ever gotten it to ascend because of the issue.

As for the issue, I don't really know what would be causing it. I know some people have issues with ascending if their name is already taken on ascended... but I don't know what issue that produces.

[ramen07]

Considering he gets to the race options page (i.e. INDU, TOLAH etc) then he must have enough resources as it would not let him get that far.

As for the issue, I don't really know what would be causing it. I know some people have issues with ascending if their name is already taken on ascended... but I don't know what issue that produces.

1. I misread the race options section.
2. It might be that issue. The Real Me: If your ingame name is really The Real Me, it is not taken, therefore it can't be that problem. If it isn't, PM me your real ingame name and I'll run a search for you.

[Sarevok]

just outa curiosity...

Do you have Nox or realm alert set to "off" and "none"? And did you have any planets merlin'd?

I have no idea if these will be affecting you, since i last ascended probably 12+ months ago, but just some suggestions

[BenjaminMS]

Weeeeirrrd.... Uhm - did you put a 'check' on one of the races - because you need to 'trigger' one of the races and confirm, then you should be able to ascend

Edit: mmm... somehow there's something wrong... it certainly isn't the problem with the naq, UU etc... either what I just said, or there's an bug.

[The Real Me]

1- Hi Sarevok, nope, no Nox or Merlins in effect. Actually stopped worrying about my planets long ago and kinda thought it would be funny for some jerk to steel some of them since they are broken and wasted billions and billions in naq before I gave up on them. lol

2- Hi BenjaminMS, when I click to select the race I want is when it starts the infinite loop and goes back to the first page for ascension showing what I need to get it done instead of going to a confirmation page.

3- Hi ramen07, yeah, my ingame right now is The_Real_Me (with underscores), and nope its not taken in the other realm as to my knowledge. (never gets to the point of picking a new name for the ascended server). And its my first ascension that has never worked. I even gritted my teeth and tried a race I didn't want to be instead of clicking Indu, but it still didn't work.


4- Hi Clarkey...
I had hoped that I would see your name in response here along with a couple others I saw in the older posts about such weird problems and bugs getting figured out... thanks for your time, but I sure was hoping someone would have an answer for me.

General Remedy Attempts:
I even thought that possibly there was some page it was supposed to go to next that had an add on it which I had blocked at some point, or a popup that was blocked for the next step of ascension... I read through thousands of blocks tho, and nothing on there and no messages about anything being blocked even, just the infinite loop process while in mid ascension.

The only thing that leaves me to guess is that perhaps the next page I should have gone to has had something hacked onto it which caused it to be reported as a web forgery or a reported attack site which Mozilla would automatically block for me.

I'm considering loosing all the hard work and simply starting over with a NEW account... sure hate to loose all the goodies on this one however. I know I should be able to rob most of the stuff out of here to re-use, but loosing over 16k gnr work would sure be a bummer, and loosing the UP I worked on and still not being ascended even, well, thats a terrible loss to face just cause of some stupid bug.

Is there any way I can give this account to my son to man as a farm for me while I get a new account up and running without me being thought to be a cheater and getting banned on here??? Hes only barely willing to help me since he spends his game time running alliances and stuff in what he considers 'real' online games. lol
On occasion I use his com to set my ppt or bank while over there visiting, or the one at the office, but would open the new account at my own house and internet connection.

Lately I lost interest in this account over and over when it continually would come out of ppt a couple hours early and gets trashed even...

I seriously think that theres just something really weird wrong with this particular account... I've always had trouble with it since month one.

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Any more ideas from anyone besides me just GIVING it to the jerks that have been trying to make a farm out of me lately??? Cause I'll delete it first and move to some other game before I'll give it to them.

Oh, and urm, I'm a female longtime gammer.
I like text based games cause I stay pretty busy with business and just need something as a distraction on slow days and for breaktimes.
But this AIN'T Relaxing!

[Sarevok]

Is it possible a planet/red title/user name/SOMETHING is to long in text? Like maybe, you named it, then they adjusted the length (shorter I'd say), and so, it doesn't like trying to fit the name into a smaller sized name field?

Just an idea that came to me then

[The Real Me]

I have no idea about that length allowance being changed... but if you say it has been changed I can rename them all and see if it helps. Funny tho, the longer named ones DO work for the most part.

I'll go rename them anyways and see if that does help any. Why not, I've tried everything else... even tried emailing admin a long time ago and never got any response at all for ANY of the bugs I reported.

And weirdly enough, this is the only thread that this messageboard ever let me post on too! lol

doomed I telz ya... SGW just don't like me! lol

[Sarevok]

The ultimate account imo.

You can take any planet, and break it, that's some ability

[The Real Me]

A thought in my bug chasing here...

Even tho others have ascended recently (my commander for one) while having things safe in the private broker setup, maybe its NOT supposed to let you ascend with incompleted open trades on the books???

I'll send those almost 5mil soldiers back to him and have him accept them this time, and see if it will let me ascend as my next attempt... who knows... maybe that will do it.

But I still have that ability to encounter every bug and weirdness that any text based game ever had just from playing it. lol. Yep, call me imo if ya want, but I think I'm just cursed by the computer gods in general.

[Sarevok]

You'd be an awesome beta tester

[BenjaminMS]

LOL @ Sarevok *puts him in the betacage* No kidnapping of potential betatesters!
@ TRM: open brokers should be no probs. Saturday I ascended with open brokers (not the first time), it should be OK.

About the comment about the board... reminds of the fact that it is phpBB - thereby it uses PHP-script. Might it be possible that whatever you use to log in doesn't accept php the right way? Because if I recall it OK, the game is a mix of PHP and HTML - and that possibly explains both your board aswell as game problems.

I'll stop by later to check once more >>
-Ben

[Sarevok]

I don't like cages, so... metally...

Also, maybe different browsers? (just a suggestion, but you've probably tried this)

[The Real Me]

Hi again Guys...
and urm... the answer to the messageboard problems was just plain weirdness I think... cause the last game I played much before this one I had my own messageboard for 5 years with usually around 250 members on the thing with no problems out of the ordinary. (Tight Security.)
Well, no problems that weren't accounted for in the server that it was hosted on for free at least.

I have btw noticed that there is a significant amount of the jerks from the hacker wars and stuff on that other game that are now playing SGW...
Their shenanigans might actually account for the rise in bugs and stuff lately. Especially the common ones like people loosing assets to oblivion and some people being able to attack with no damages in inappropriate situations for it and other bonus operations they can perform like magic.

That one jerk that used the game setup to hook into people's coms and use them to DDOS his own game program's peripheral programs in order to get sympathy and more donations for repairs of what he messed up himself is SOMEWHERE puling the same crap as I speak I'd bet too. Ingratiating himself with admin and getting them to let him help FIX the programming "for free" and 'fight the hackers'... while he sets up his personal cheats on it... Standard jerk things like that.

Don't get me started on the things I've gotten used to ignoring about standard online cheaters who profit (in real cash) off of innocent minded game owners by their confidence schemes... I learned to program using a mainframe back in the 70's myself and I've about seen it all right down to the offshore banking schemes. Lots more smarter crooks in the world than smart good guys. lol

but back onsubject...


Since it let you ascend with assets tied up in open barter trades, I give up on finding a work around for this bug. Perhaps it really is something old tied to my actual account number in here...
New account is the only rational way to find that out...
Just hope I can do it without being branded a cheater by admin and loosing ALL of whats left of my hard work. (I actually was pretty active at one point in SGW, and enjoyed it.)

Sooooo... Unless someone can give me a reason to have hope here, thats my plan. Surely admin and game owners will see that I'm only trying to recoup some of what the game ripped me off for by not deleting this first account for a few days before I have time to get the new one up and running on my tight schedule of late.

Nice meeting you guys and thanks for the effort!

Sincerely,
~TRM~