Samapico

Do you mean if people actually receive them? Well I received a ?message, which is why it is stuck in my ?messages list

Maybe it simply was not advertised the way it should have been, but even if most players can't join it, I think it's somewhat re!@#$%^&*uring for a player to know that the SSC is making efforts to improve internal communication, as well as external communications with zone owners, sysops, players in general. They might not have made all the right choices to reach their goal, but their intention is pretty clear, and will obviously adjust themselves accordingly.

Some thoughts that came to my mind while reading the replies: -Brain brought a good point about dev people being more knowledgeable when it comes to hacks and such -Like I said, and someone else did too, like every zone forum, it has a staff forum... However, I suggest that most discussions should happen in the public discussion board to gather player advice and such. Only some more sensitive issues should be discussed in private... and even then, a summary once in a while of what was discussed, decisions taken, etc. should be made in the public section. Even if the issue is very sensitive, like 'how to deal with hack X', you could summarize it with 'we discussed on how to deal with some hack.' Hmm, well Sketter's post went pretty much in the same direction as this So yeah... Basically, don't split it with what the players need to view and what they don't need to; split it with what they 'CAN' see, and what they CAN'T see. Even if players don't give a !@#$%^&* about a specific issue, as long as it's not sensitive like something about hacks or bans, they 'can' view it, and it should be public. However, make sure to put a warning that the topics will be moderated, anything offtopic would be sent to the shredder

just remembered I downloaded one and did not install it...

LMAO!!!

It's like a food chain... small fish eats plant, big fish eats small fish, bird eats big fish... mouse eats leaves on the road, owl eats mouse, old woman hits owl, some dude hits old woman... In GTA2, that's worth 100 points.

What version is this for? 3.1.1? nolan, if you used that installer, make sure you run the update to get the latest version It should pop-up automatically at the first start-up, if not, click on the Help menu, Update Latest version is 3.2.1

But then again, most of the things discussed will not even be of public interest... imo the reason to have it private is the same reason why we have a private forum of admins right here in this forum, and the same reason (almost) every zone has a private staff forum... One of these reasons is just because if you want to talk about a player in particular (his actions, etc.), you can do so without having to deal with that player seeing it and whining, or other people whining about it or whatever.

Bak made some very basic "AI" bot... But it was just something that checked on your screen and hit keys to control the ship. It checked pixels on the radar and controlled itself that way. He released it, but really, you can't do anything serious with this

i got kicked out of my house? does that work better for you? 'Getting kicked out of' is a passive verb form, as opposed to 'Doing something' which is active.

Yeah the ?message I got also stays... should be fixed when they put the main biller back online

Just read carefully my last reply... should be clear enough, if you need more details on a specific part, tell me

Did you compile it with VS2005 or VC++6 ? I can run plugins compiled with 2005, but other people just can't load them in their bots... So I have to recompile it with version 6. If the plugin just won't load, might be the reason why.

Wasn't bad, even though we couldn't test pub cause my plugin sucked, and even if I didn't go for the full advertising (note the topic is still a "maybe") cause of lack of time and lack of confidence in the pub plugin progress. But we had some fun anyway I only took one screenshot of the very first 2v2 I think

You put comdlg32.DLL in there, not comdlg32.OCX small difference You most likely need both anyways Start DCME and check carefully which one it is asking for, if it's the dll, then in the regsvr32 command, put .dll instead of .ocx if it asks for the .ocx, download the ocx, put it there, and redo that same regsvr32 command line you did

First, try just to start DCME after placing it in the system32 folder If you still get the comdlg32.ocx error: Click on 'Start' , then 'Run...', then type in: regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\comdlg32.ocx If it says the module can't be found, MAKE SURE you placed it in the correct folder. You better double-check because by default Windows might give you warnings about changing stuff in a system folder. Not sure what you meant with that part... you seem to be describing the icon of the .ocx file... You don't really need to click it anyway, just move it in the right folder (C:\Windows\System32) or whatever folder is windows installed in

Freedom Call - Warriors cheesy happy flowery power metal at its best

Nah, it started before

I'm back... and still alive... barely... How I managed to get some kind of cold at this time of the year, I don't know... but I'm not feeling that well

Not really... somewhere in the afternoon? Say 3pm The power outtage (see thread in general forum) prevents me from preparing how I would have wanted to, that's kind of why this is still a 'maybe' and I haven't 'heavily' advertised it... But I'm sure there will be people around; probably not as much as last time, but we can hope. Spread the word

I don't even have a flashlight There are usually enough light from other buildings across the street to see, though

At 18:00 (or 6pm for you weird 12-hour system people), I won't have any electricity From 18:00 to 4:00 (10 hours), they'll be working on plugging a new building of university residences... the school, the residences, and everything in these buildings will be shut down during that time sucks

It wouldn't be hard at all, no, but I have a lot of work to do for 17th Parallel, and have several unfinished projects that I would prefer spending time on. I encourage any other developer to expand this plugin, though... The code should be clear enough to be understood by anyone. I agree that it would be much better if it read the sysop.txt file, but then again, it's a bit more complicated. Also, the plugin lacks an interface to read/change settings in the .ini from ingame... I might make a general template for an interface like this later, and at that point I might apply it to the plugin, but for now it's no priority. Enjoy

So every normal player would receive these weird text commands? For now, for simplicity's sake I just made it so SysopOnly means 'those with sysop-level bot access' And I won't do that spectator thing until someone asks for it... I gave the source, if someone wants to add stuff, have fun. But I have plenty of other projects