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[Ratsorea]

Stuck in Facility 1

[Guest]

I had the same problem with clicking the door and getting the message that the pathway was locked. I cleared cache and cookies then reloaded and the problem was solved.

[catherwood]

reposting from an existing thread (where it was kinda off-topic anyway -- where is our FAQ when you need it?)

Another recommendation I have is that when prompted* for "continue from where you left off" you instead select "start from the beginning". The flash files have been moved to new URLs, and while it seems silly, you'll have to wait for new files to download, even for areas of Facility 1 which you've already visited and have in your browser cache -- even the main globe of spinning rings!

Prepare to stare at black screens. And wait. A long time. Especially if the server is overloaded, or you have a slow connection.

*(if you haven't seen this prompt in a while, you must not be logging out! Return to the home page, log out, then log in again, and start fresh)

but yeah, the cleanest most-drastic solution is to just delete everything from your browser cache, or at least selectively delete every asset from the survivalcode.com base URL. Cookies may or may not be an additional area for cleansing.

[Ratsorea]

Thanks for Suggestions

[catherwood]

I need to amend what I said above about the URLs. I was on a different computer this weekend, and could not get any screens to load at all. Here's what I observed, appended to survivalcode.com in the address:

/games/f2 <-- new facility, but if you haven't been down the 1A corridor from Facility 1 yet, this won't work.

/games/f1 <-- new URL for Facility 1, but this also won't load the new flash files if you haven't been down the old corridor yet.

/games/f1?restart=true <-- even telling it to start fresh with Facility 1 did not properly load the new flash files for the old facility.

/game <-- the old way the URL looked when loading Facility 1 *did* get me back into the main room with the spinning rings. From there, I was able to walk down the 1A corridor and find the door now displaying the green indicator for an unlocked door. I felt like Dorothy opening her house door and seeing OZ for the first time, when I saw that facility door slide open.

So, if there is anyone else out there still stuck in Facility 1 or seeing black screens that never fully load the flash content, try changing the URL. I even cleared my browser cache and cookies, but could not get the new URLs to work until I completed the old pathways. Now that I've just begun to explore F2, I have yet to return to F1 to see if there are any more glitches about visiting old content with the new URLs. Wish me luck!