Jason

oh, good deal. i'll try a search then. :]

i apologize if there's already a thread for this, but the search is busted. kept getting a php/sql parsing error. so anyway, i was wondering if any of you fine, talented graphics artists would be kind enough to make me a banner that is an acoustic guitar. after several miserably failed attempts, i've given up. all mine ending up looking like fat turds.

Physics pisses me off. It's all educated guesses pulled out of educated !@#$%^&*es. We're not sure of any of it.

I'm definitely skeptical of those statistics, basically because of what Dr Brain mentioned, "Now, are those figures balanced by how much of a percentage the server group represented?". I mean, no -*BAD WORD*- there haven't been many successful Mac OSX attacks... no one's bothering to attack in the first place. And the same goes for FreeBSD. Linux has a much larger market-share than FreeBSD/Mac OSX, so logic would dictate it's going to be subject to more attacks. In conclusion, statistics are evil. They're too selective in the information they present, and context, which is key, is most often ignored.

I get the that message when entering HZ with SubChat, but I don't get booted and I can chat just fine indefinitely.

Nothing will ever top ZippyDan's font. Everyone's just so -*BAD WORD*- used to it. =p

When at the main screen of the client, highlight Trench Wars in the zone list and hit Ctrl+T. That will run a traceroute from your machine to the TW server. Hit the export button, which will save the results in a txt file. Copy and paste the results here, and we'll see where the problem is.

Cygwin and gcc all the mother-*BAD WORD*-in' way baby! I need to get a linux box built so I can stop -*BAD WORD*-ing with cygwin and just go straight gcc. :/

It's pretty much the same, only the one in SSI TWDev Testing is touched up a bit and more complete overall.

If you want ideas for a race type track, go to SSI TWDev Testing and ?go rally. Don't even think about simply copying the map. Ari and SuperDave put a ton of work into it, and they'd cut your balls off if you ripped their work.

Hockey Zone will let you in as well. That's where I hang out when I'm using SubChat.

Indeed. I agree wholeheartedly with cypher. Use someone else's bandwidth for something as superfluous as a buddy list.

D1st0rt, you really need to draw up more explicit plans before you can expect anyone to want to help you out. You have a very vague outline at the moment, which is discouraging to those would could potentially be of service.

Dude, just add these buddies to your messaging program of choice (AIM, ICQ, MSN, etc) and have it agreed upon between all of you that whenever someone logs onto SS, they also logon to their IM client and send a message to everyone they see that's currently online. As long as no one has an away message up, the message should kick everyone's Continuum client into alt-tab mode, and voila! You're notified of your buddies logging into the game. :] Personally, I say screw adding on to the chat capabilities of SS. It's already got one of the best chat systems of any MMOG I've ever seen. Let's see new gameplay features instead!

I hear you cypher. ssdude1> need website, help plz? ssdude2> can you make me a site? ssdude3> want to rework my site, want to help out? ssdude4> got a little dev project going, you in? client1> i like the design but i want this this this this and this feature can you have that done by next friday? my mom> You're living here free of charge. Get off your -*BAD WORD*-, away from that -*BAD WORD*- computer and do something around the -*BAD WORD*- house for me! It wouldn't kill you to vacuum once a week or something! [EDIT] No offense to those who have discussed websites with me. I have offered my services to a few, and I'm not referring to those few in the above little ditty. I do get at least four or five newbies a week, people whom I've never heard of, asking me to make them a personal site though. Talk about mother-*BAD WORD*-ing annoying. Some of the dev projects I don't mind working on, but I usually end up working on them with people who don't know what they are doing and just get in the way or ask stupid questions. And then there's this one client I'm working with (Yeah, a paying customer! Woo! =p) who basically wants me to write a ridiculously complex CMS for the website I designed for him, and he wants the site to launch a week from now. Do I look like superman? Okay, enough ranting. -*BAD WORD*- that felt good though. :] [/EDIT]

One of these days SS is going to be nothing more than another IRC. =p

Please note, you cannot use SubChat to login to Continuum-only zones as it is recognized as an SS client by SubGame. This means you won't be able to login directly to TW with it. However, you can login into another SSC zone, such as HZ for example, and still yack on all your chats.

Reboot kicked some serious -*BAD WORD*-. It was done with sad looking 3D rendering, but at the time the technology used was cutting edge and I was all, "HOLY -*BAD WORD*- BATMAN!" As a matter of fact, I have every episode on one of these harddrives I have lying around. :] As far as L1K, I'd venture to say I'm at roughly L0.01K, maybe you could slide the decimal to the right one place. Still, it's fun as -*BAD WORD*- using small SS development projects as a means of expanding my programming horizons.

That makes sense, SVS. I expect in time though he'll be singing a different tune. ASSS has a long way to go before it's ready for a zone like TW, but surely at some point it'll surp!@#$%^&* SubGame in terms of a balance between stability/features. Or at least I hope that's what happens. :]

DoCk> says a lot of things. He just doesn't ever want to see the switch take place because it would probably make his Java bot core obsolete. Who knows what the future will bring for sure though! =p

There's no need to incorporate voice communication into the client or server. Third party apps are just fine.

The real test will be when ASSS is stable enough in PriitK's eyes for him to try it out in TW. If it can handle TW, it's as good as gold. And don't tell me he'll never abandon SubGame. I know for a fact this isn't the case. He just won't be abandoning it any time soon. =p

I know it's been discussed to death, but what can I say? I like to beat dead horses into a bloody pulp!

Thanks for all the info cypher!

You don't exactly have to go wide open source. At least we could have a dev team of half a dozen highly trusted invidivuals or so. It would be so much better for the continuing advancement of the game.