HI Aprone and all,
so, after a month or more of being left without a working computer as my old one broke and I had to search for an affordable and reasonable new one, then try to get used to Windows 8 to finally decide to downgrade the new machine back to Windows 7, etc, I was exhilarated to find out about the new Swamp update. Honestly, I think the Kaldobsky gamer accounts are in fact a good decision. They won't earn you anything significant in practice, I think the 2 dollars per month from each customer are barely going to be enough to maintain the server costs and everything, but if it at least helps to keep the number of hackers and cheaters to a minimum, then it's by all means a good thing. You should in fact have started charging even more for the accounts so that you would receive even more of a reward in return for your excelent, incredible work that can never be appreciated truly enough. And I'm saying that with the knowledge of everything you've previously stated on this forum regarding this matter - whether you should produce games just as a hobby and for free or sell them commercially. With the extra days remaining up until the end of the month during which the purchase was made being added to your total account time for free, the entire month not being counted against your time remaining in the account if you go that entire month without playing, etc, the whole thing is a more than fair deal for anyone sensible and mature. The others would never really appreciate the true effort behind the games anyway, so don't deserve anything better than the ordinary freebies they already have and had even before Swamp and your other games appeared on the scene.
So, I downloaded the game to my new machine, purchased a Kaldobsky gamer account and tried to run it. I got a "Runtime error 52: Bad file name or number" error. I installed Winkit, ran checkup.exe and then even windows64bit.bat manually etc but still keep getting the same error. The error appears every single time as soon as I start the game and there is no debuglog.txt or similar file. Any idea as to what could be wrong? Should I manually create files like progress.ini before trying to run the game or something like that? I know you had suggested things like this in the past to people in different situations but I can't remember the exact steps you were recommending for these people to try and under which circumstances they were valid.
Many thanks for a reply in advance, congratulations for finally taking the undoubtedly difficult but in the long run very beneficial decision, for you as well as the entire community, and keep up the fabulous work! :-)
Lukas
