Not to be overly negative, but I downloaded 0.6 and upgraded from 0.4g today. I just finally got frustrated to the point that I managed to find a copy of 0.4g to go back to and did so happily. A short list of what I was struggling with, offered as a list of starting points for debugging.
1: All my settings were lost going from 0.4 to 0.6. Worse, when I went back to 0.4 everything was lost again (the original 0.4 settings apparently were destroyed by 0.6)
2: It was a lot of work to get my team added and showing up on everyone's list. I built the team on the master and added just the master to everyone else. This was the same as 0.4g. When I "pushed" to the team, however, nothing happened. This was because everyone (including the master!) was showing up as offline in the master's list. (Dont understand how the master can ever show himself as offline.) I did some reading, renamed the channel, made sure that everyone was appearing in the channel list, added to slaves to the master's 'friend' list, and it sort of started working.
3: The team list that is supposed to show everyones XP (and now health too!). I had values and percentage both turned on. Everyone had 100/100 (100%) XP and health. Except the master. For whatever reason, the master never showed up in the team list.
4: As I came in for a landing from a flight path, all but one of the slaves got D/C'ed. When I logged everyone back in, the master never saw the connected toon as logging back in (because it never logged out). This caused that toon to show Offline in the team list. Guess who never received and invites, and never showed on the team list?
--Items 2 and 4 lead me to think that the code is trying to be too 'clever', and only send data / commands to toons that it determines are online. The problem is that it is frequently wrong in that assessment, and there is no easy way to tell it that those toons are actually there. Code that ignores me because it thinks it is smarter than me is frustrating...
5: The quest watcher puts a large, invisible frame across the center of the screen. This interfered with the mouse when I try to click-drag to adjust my camera view. I had to click off to the side of the screen. in order for it to register.
I still think Jamba is practically required to multi-box properly, and can't imagine trying to play without it. That is why it was so frustrating when so many things didn't work properly. Luckily, I had a working version that I was able to revert to so I can continue to play.
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