Samapico

Had it on, it's off now... it's a bit rougher, but nothing close to your screenshot, still easy to read

No If you want to make a free game with the source engine, the only requirement will be to have installed ANY source game (like Team Fortress 2, which is like 5$ on steam). This gives you access to the Source SDK (of any publicly available version). Would probably be possible to get some kind of license to use the engine in a stand-alone game, but that'd certainly cost money.

Pretty sure Trackmania doesn't use Source. But you're right that Source is a very flexible engine... though I also think one of the strong points of Source is its 3D physics, so I'm not sure if it would be very advantageous to use it for a 2D game. It would certainly allow for a lots of physics stuff though, like pushing stuff around in space, collisions, etc. The whole multiplayer thing is also covered by that engine.

Steam Engine... do you mean the Source Engine?

1 word: Awesome ... Ok... maybe another word: Excessive? But anything Risk is awesome in my book.

The problem wasn't the sequential id's... it was downloading each file with a connection, which kind of killed the server.

Continuum is closed source and you won't have access to the code, and probably no one ever will But check out the project Discretion... It's basically Continuum being remade as an open-sourced project. There's a sub-forum in the game projects category here

Good point But it looks like 9 px to me , and it looks fine... Something must be screwed up with your fonts :S

And then we'll laugh at it

They should go Rambo on the gangs, with tranquilizer darts, and just stuff them in a cell

Nope, that was Bjorn... But why did he give the code to you, CHambs, if you don't code?

I don't see how a script that downloads 1 (publicly available) file at a time can really be "damaging"... It's not like if they hacked in your server and copied directories or whatever... Sure 1.5 gigs in a day is a lot of download, but it seems exaggerated to me that damage was done. That said, I do agree that it probably wasn't probably done in the best way, but...... well... refer to above picture

imo: http://www.redzone.ie/image/Storm-in-a-teacup.jpg

That is pretty cool

I thought this was kind of related. And funny

it works for me

Not so sure about that...

He was the first to make a MERV AI bot too, so I guess that would kind of make sense, right?

I'm lost

I have no idea what you are talking about. I think this topic is interesting Sooooo, let me guess... 4 zones... 2/3 population... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm But the end-user would never have to know it's a "hacked" client... just pass it off as 0.40b or something, keep the whole thing "secret" in the "elite" part of the community, and just don't post the information about this to the public................. ... oh crap.

OH, YEAH, AWESOME wait... what?

Salutation, earthling, I am feeling average. Thank you for your time.

Only issue with that is security. It would be very easy to steal passwords. It would be BAD. It's not just the password for an alias, some people use the same password for their emails and a bunch of things. The current system is not much safer, since it only relies on trusting the hosts. It's a lazy way to "fix" the problem. This issue would be (from what I hear) pretty easy to fix, but you'd still have to update/replace the whole biller, fix subgame/move everything to ASSS, and update the client.

The FAQ has some suggestions to fix that (sadly) pretty common bug... Though it's far from guaranteed to work. Some computer specs might help, too (especially OS)

By 'as good as anything else', you mean 'that's where the navbar should link to', or is there something that is actually better than anything else? Edit: oh well, it seems my FTP doesn't work anymore, can't update it