Two suggestions, one is cargobug (Linux), other is payment ARX

[ALemonNamedDuck]

Hello CMDR's (and Frontier staff),

First of all; I don't really know if this is the right place, but if not, feel free to close it (of course)....

However there are two things I want to adress...

The first; I found a bug (on (Manjaro)Linux, and I believe Linux is unsupported)), and has to do with an error when your ship's cargo is empty.
When you want to fill your cargohold from absolute 0 to an completly full cargohold, it won't allow that.
Now beeing an softwaretester in real life, I decided to test it out with several settings.

Found that all types of cargo, and multiple types of ships has this. Therefor universal.
However, if you first buy 1 unit, and after that fill your hold, it will work.
In my newly acquired Type-8 I first need to buy 1, and after that I can get the rest of the 403 units/tonnes (with exception of the planetary appr. suite and an Advanced Docking computer, its all cargo)
Version is: 4.0.0.1902 (is FID needed?)



The second is; is it deliberate that only creditcards are accepted, when buying ARX?
I actually want to buy some ARX for the Mandalay, but only creditcards are allowed, and not debit.

In my specific case (and for the rest of the 95% Dutchies who use that protocol)iDeal/Mollie, is not supported..
Are there other, LEGAL, ways of buying ARX?
It was in the past it was possible (otherwise I couldn't buy ARX in the first place)

Thanks in advanced
o7

 

[ALemonNamedDuck]

I use a debit card. Have you checked to see if it’s something to do with your bank?

Nothing to do with my bank. I just don't have a card I can add.
I also checked my profile, but nothing indicates that I can add any card other than a creditcard.

Are you still able to buy ARX with debit?

P.S: sorry for my late reply

 

[Ian Doncaster]

The first; I found a bug (on (Manjaro)Linux, and I believe Linux is unsupported))

It is - though for what it's worth, I don't get this bug on Debian (using Lutris to manage the Wine install for ED) so it may be that you can narrow it down to some replaceable library version.

 

[SubitaNeo]

Linux is using Proton, do not have a native client.

Is not a Linux bug (I use ED on Linux since some years) and btw on Linux it crashes less than on Windows.

 

[varonica]

Nothing to do with my bank. I just don't have a card I can add.
I also checked my profile, but nothing indicates that I can add any card other than a creditcard.

Are you still able to buy ARX with debit?

P.S: sorry for my late reply

Debit cards will be seen as a "credit card" payment for many business transactions, it's just instead of going onto a credit account to be paid at a later date the money comes directly out of the account. Just enter your debit card details in the credit card section and see what happens, I have done this many times when my mother wants to buy stuff online and she only has a debit card, it works fine, well here in Australia at least.

 

[ALemonNamedDuck]

It is - though for what it's worth, I don't get this bug on Debian (using Lutris to manage the Wine install for ED) so it may be that you can narrow it down to some replaceable library version.

Then I will try it on a different distro (platform), a Debian/Fedora will do nicely.

Linux is using Proton, do not have a native client.

Is not a Linux bug (I use ED on Linux since some years) and btw on Linux it crashes less than on Windows.

Linux indeed works better, I mean take folder tabs for example. An staple in Linux for (maybe) decades, but a fairly new feature in Windows (whaha)

Debit cards will be seen as a "credit card" payment for many business transactions, it's just instead of going onto a credit account to be paid at a later date the money comes directly out of the account. Just enter your debit card details in the credit card section and see what happens, I have done this many times when my mother wants to buy stuff online and she only has a debit card, it works fine, well here in Australia at least.

Ah it looked so creditcard page-like, and I assumed it was. Many shops just offer a range of payment, and yea it costs something to license. But what do you get for it in return?
And thats why I want to use debitcards. Frontier has their money. I have my product. Done. Easy

As @varonica says, I just put my card in and it works.

Its all okey to ask on the forum. But it would be even better if it is on their website... Thanks.. Will try it

 

[varonica]

Ah it looked so creditcard page-like, and I assumed it was. Many shops just offer a range of payment, and yea it costs something to license. But what do you get for it in return?
And thats why I want to use debitcards. Frontier has their money. I have my product. Done. Easy

Yes it does, because on these cases the debit card is treated as a credit card payment except for the way the money is transferred, it is a credit card page, it has nothing to do with the site, it's the bank that does the processing in the background.

 

[Ameeleean2]

In my specific case (and for the rest of the 95% Dutchies who use that protocol)iDeal/Mollie, is not supported..
Are there other, LEGAL, ways of buying ARX?
It was in the past it was possible (otherwise I couldn't buy ARX in the first place)

Once in the past I have used something like virtual debit card- it was working like real one except there was no physical card. It was meant to be used in internet payments and it worked well in my case.
I have multiple bank accounts and I can tell that whatever card is accepted or not might be related to bank. I had one of my card rejected all the time while other one was accepted and both had sufficient funds, so I guess this might be related to how Your bank is processing card payments. You might also want to check internet payment limits set on card (it is easy to forget about that and it might be set to really low value by default).
It is also good idea to own separate bank account with debit card attached to it which will be used for internet payments only- this way You will have better control over funds and even if card data is leaked due to hacks, damage will be minimal at last from financial side.

 

[Nowski]

Then I will try it on a different distro (platform), a Debian/Fedora will do nicely.

Conty might be worth a look, avoiding an install. Instead you just download a single executable, chmod +x it and run it with suitable params. It unpacks itself each run into an up-to-date mini Arch container and comes with wine-proton, lutris, steam, etc. as well as its own (contained) system libraries.

I'm using the "lite" version to run ED via steam with no problems (other than having to supply LD_PRELOAD="" as per this Steam issue ). I think it's a very nice project!

Regards the cargo bug, does it still happen if you just visit the commodity market without actually buying anything?

 

[ALemonNamedDuck]

Sorry for the lack of update, but I buy my ARX through Steam. Way easier and glad I did. Mandy is a fantastic ship. Thanks for all the replies, and I will try that Conty @Nowski