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That's hard to imagine, he's a very sensible sort. Even if he were to do that, he'd probably make a backup, give it to people and say what's going on. He's been in-game since it went down. Maybe he's just playing with the server to help curb spam, which has become an increasing problem over at server help. Left him a message in-game.

What's odd is that the ASSS site is also down, and has different nameservers. I suppose that could mean there is some DNS magick and they're both on the same server and it's just a server problem.

If you know much about Unix systems or programming, you can help get Discretion & ASSS into Linux repos.

Yay, Ground Warfare is back.

Zone by committee? And you wonder why the population suffers. Leave the poor game alone.

Back in the day in Chaos freqs weren't totally equal. It was fine. Of course they didn't have such a small allowed number of players either.

Couldn't all the spam be disabled instead?

Funny, never seen anyone of notable skill using a Shark very long. But by all means, change Chaos even more, everyone likes change, just look at the pop.

I came.

SLI?

Most of those are pretty distinctive.

Powerball's just as old, isn't it?

He was in control in 1997? I guess he just had a good run of not screwing things up, then. 10 yrs? That doesn't sound remotely correct. Pretty sure I remember (and I have a good memory) playing Chaos less than 10 years ago and it not being so changed. The only people I've seen in Chaos in recent visits that are interested in putting any time into it are old timers, people who prefer the classic settings, leaguers — but they find these sets only in subarenas. See preceding. I think you underestimate the satisfaction people get out of having to work for something, and the motivation someone can get knowing there will be a fully greened person to kill soon, or an ungreened person to neg immediately. Eh, well that's what the original zone descriptions said, but Chaos always had plenty of newbies. I think I spent all of 30 minutes in Alpha before going to Chaos, and it wasn't because I was amazingly good after that much time. Seems worth a try, but I think you'd want it to be a matter of excluding people with certain stats (without booting them instantly when they reach them ), and not forcibly excluding newbs from being cannon fodder in other zones should they elect to be. In sports maybe, but I don't see this applying to SubSpace or Chaos. Are we talking about the same game, the same zone? A game where EG and TW exist? A zone where chirp flew a lancaster back and forth in a tube all day long holding down the TAB button? Where people vulched negs constantly? Mine rep? Port & burst? I'd love to know what game chock full of honorable players that only enjoy themselves in fair fights you've been playing. I'm no negger, but I have plenty of fun killing newbs and fighting players closer to my own ability and beyond it. I don't play Chaos because it's not the Chaos I know. Others don't play it because it's empty. If the sets were right, I'd play it, and it wouldn't be empty. ;p Like I said, you can satisfy old players or you can satisfy new ones, but you can't have both, not without calling the zone something else.

And that's why Chaos will probably never recover under this management. Luckily everyone has the sets and proper maps.

Stop using PHP.

You'd know, being the destroyer of an entire zone.

...you're losing me. If they haven't been fully greened, then they were at least incredibly well greened compared to classic Chaos. They already have population-based on-the-fly adjustment, and it doesn't work. For that matter it hasn't worked in any zone that has implemented it, including Powerball, and if memory serves even EG and TW have some changes in place. You can't preserve existing players (that like the altered sets) and encourage other players that prefer other sets (like the old ones) simultaneously. You can only aim for specific sets you think more people will like... but if you can't make up your mind and _stick_ to one for a while, you will never accrue a decent pop regardless.

Last time I was in Chaos every ship started fully greened — did they finally undo that idiocy? You have to green in Chaos, otherwise you're in some diluted substitute.

title.dat At the moment Discretion has the greatest potential to endure as a client (even moreso with ASSS as a server) — think you might ever want to start calling the game Discretion? I don't. The game is SubSpace, it has multiple clients, just like many other games, just like many other server-client software packages.

Would it be better to eat living flesh? In some ways slightly, yes.

Make sure DWM isn't running, just switching to the classic theme doesn't stop it. Makes Windows 7 almost as tolerable as other versions of Windows: http://classicshell.sf.net/ Performance opts: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/51174-visual-effects-performance-options-shortcut-create.html But yeah, use Linux.

Kingsmen - Louie Louie

Nothing between 1 and 0 so I can't answer. Breath like excrement smells worse when you eat dead flesh constantly.

Stop using ASSS on Windows, newbs.

See I didn't even read all this. Infantry? You really want to follow the lead of a game based on SubSpace that can't even maintain the population of _one_ of our several popular zones?