MOULa Update, Feb 13, 2012

[Mac_Fife]

You're probably well aware that we're expecting an update on MOULa during the regular maintenance downtime on Monday.

As there will be a change to game content as part of this update (a secondary part of the Minkata sparlie fix), your Minkata Shard installations will need to be updated too. This will mean copying the changed content files over from your MOULa installation into the Minkata installation, similar to what you had to do when you first installed Minkata. However, this time you should only need to copy a few files, not whole directories.

As soon as we know what the affected files are we'll post a note here to make things easier.

What you'll need to do:
1. Update MOULa. Note: You should not need to delete the tos.txt file for this update. Simply launch MOULa, allow it to update and get to the login screen. That will get you any updated files.
2. Refer to the list we'll post, and copy (don't "move") those files into the equivalent folders in your Minkata shard folder.

That should be you ready!

[Mac_Fife]

Given that the update has affected well over 100 files, I'd suggest that the easiest way for most people to update their Minkata installation will be to copy the entire dat folder (and only the dat folder) from their updated MOULa install to their Minkata shard install.

However, don't copy anything just yet. Once rarified has new manifest files available for the shard we'll post again to let you know when we're back in sync with MOULa. In the meantime you can continue to use the shard .

[D'Lanor]

I wonder why the Cyan build process updates so many files that have nothing to do with what we tested here and provided to them.

[JWPlatt]

I asked Chogon about that when I saw the update. "There is a random bit in some files that cause re-downloads" - they never figured out where it was. Good issue on which to raise a ticket.

[Ehren]

Over 100? That doesn't make the slightest sense... How many exactly?

[JWPlatt]

135 files in the dat folder.

[rarified]

The shard has now been updated with new manifests that match the build 905 files from MOULa. You must copy updated files from your MOULa dat folder to your Minkata game area in order to use the Minkata shard.

_R

[charura]

Okay. I copied the dat folder from Moul(a) to Minkata. All is good! One question though....The welcome screen still says UruLive.Live 1.902? Is that okay?

[rarified]

Yes, that's fine. It's a side effect of not having a Minkata-specific build number in the code. I probably will do something different the next update, but for now it should work fine for you.

[a'moaca']

I asked Chogon about that when I saw the update. "There is a random bit in some files that cause re-downloads" - they never figured out where it was. Good issue on which to raise a ticket.

WHAT!? I know exactly where it is. Here:

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diff -r 2e5a53a35b5f MOULOpenSourceClientPlugin/Plasma20/Sources/Plasma/PubUtilLib/plFile/plEncryptedStream.cpp
--- a/MOULOpenSourceClientPlugin/Plasma20/Sources/Plasma/PubUtilLib/plFile/plEncryptedStream.cpp        Thu Apr 21 14:33:35 2011 -0700
+++ b/MOULOpenSourceClientPlugin/Plasma20/Sources/Plasma/PubUtilLib/plFile/plEncryptedStream.cpp        Tue Feb 21 08:14:01 2012 -0800
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@
                }
 
                for (int i = amtRead; i < kEncryptChunkSize; i++)
-                       buf[i] = rand();
+                       buf[i] = 0;
 
                IEncipher((UInt32*)&buf);
 

Do this, and while the next MOULa update will differ again, no more will after that.