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Or maybe perhaps since the bug does have the side effect of giving the other zones an inflated population, PB felt it wasn't fair that their pop should inflate those zones? Not right, but seriously, everyone would rather look at this being the motive, and not the true motive of the people originally behind the idea. The fact we wanted to share our population, and allow our players the ability to hop around the zones just by the arena list. Something many (including myself when I don't login as sysop) use and enjoy on a daily basis. So nice to see when EG is running an event I enjoy, and I'll hop over there to play it, and then back to chaos pub to continue where I left off.

yeah, only works in Google Chrome. For me atleast.

Inserted all "Frequently Asked Questions" into the Tutorials Section. Also turned off Spider Logs. Dunno why it turned on again, but was really hogging down the mysql server at times, and the table was nearing 150mb. Forum DB down from 400mb to 250mb now.

Gotta give em credit, they always think of something unique, mhmm. http://www.google.com/

Actually he is still one of the lead developers iirc.

Quite a few old projects and games, a p2p backbone, and skype. Dunno what else, never have dug up. Skype made him all his money.

I will say this, I play detective more than I really should comparing multiple names, mids, ips etc. to match names. Sometimes I'll go through a list of someone's aliases just to find a matching bit of data on it that matches their name, or another name that then has data that matches their name. I'll trace IPs, dig through alias dbs, check multiple different spellings (this is a case many times... one in particular, I ended up having to show the guy info I was not suppose to just to prove to him the name spelt wrong was actually his), etc. The old ops / system. If login info, and registration didn't match, you're done. Our system is to try and match and dig for anything we can. But as with the old system, we have been burned by trusting word of mouth, and so we learned quickly not to and wrote that in our rules.

Every year the navy shuts down our shipyard for a week, and well next week is that week. So I'll be home, and between painting the baby's room, assembling the crib and stuff, I'll be trying to do some work here on the site. Got a few ideas for the actual content section, but as far as the downloads and tutorials, need some help there. As always some people stepped up, I told them what they need to do, and nothing happened. Sadly with the downloads section I really had high hopes, and honestly dunno what happened to Xog. Hope he is alright. I wanna make this next week really productive, so hopefully will make some leaps and bounds. On a serious note... Pastebin & Twitter feed. Anyone actually see a use for them? Or am I just wasting space at the top of the site. Please lemme know.

Quite a bit more than 6 yrs ago he created it, and played on it for quite a few years too.

Actually one of those 3 tickets, the person had the same full name as their computer's owner, and had filled in their real name on their new name on the registration. It isn't just computer hardware that it pulls. On top of that, there is 3 zone's alias dbs we trust that are rather old and we regularly use that to find matching login data.

Continuum was not a ground up operation. I think anyone looking at the timeline could figure that out (Priit's announcement to the first test release). Priit was not the solo coder of continuum. At the time continuum technically was illegal due to it having subspace code owned by BDE, & other code that was technically BDE's property included in it. It is a big messy web of crap that Continuum is stuck in. Really the only reason I think BDE never touched us beyond us being non-profitable to them, is Priit's work on KaZaA.

There is a lot of other data to fill in, and a lot of computer data also pulled upon registration we can look at / match. A lot of the time people just refuse to do the simple things we ask to help them, so they get denied.

On a side note: priit didn't create a command for it anyways. And I just retrieved 4 names off 3 tickets no problem

Typically if we deny someone, it is truly their own fault for not filling in proper information. I would say probably only 1/50 tickets get denied, and maybe 1/20 the person never replies to our questions. Most of the time we are able to find connecting info, and the name is retrieved. We have retrieved people's names who haven't logged in for more than 7 or 8 year before. But again hat is because they properly filled out all the registration info.

no rush, covered for a couple months right now anyways.

Syntax highlighting has been added. Also tweaked settings so will list all public pastebins for sharing purposes, and so it will save to file not database (this wiped all current pastes, sorry.).

looks more ice than rock, but unique nonetheless.

Yep got it, thanks man.

Don't see any of the zones up. Temporary issue or Snrrrub shut it down?

5b2 = to 5 deaths, and you have to win by 2. Meaning if you get 5 kills and they have 4 kills, you still have to get another kill (6-4). But if you get 5 kills, and they have 3 kills, you win. And if you have 5 kills and they have 4 kills, and get another kill, you need to get 2 kills to win still.

Thought it might be useful for developers and such. Toy with it. If doesn't look useful, we can remove. Lemme know whatcha guys think, honestly.

Think it is obvious. Just a way to award members for the things they do with some recognition. Maybe nothing special, but something none the less. Might find something better in the near future.

Noone has asked, but thought I'd say. I am going to pay this and next month's server bills regardless. Should end up with ~50 left of my money in paypal. Not going to list it in the donations, as I don't think of it as a donation. Anything donated over the total needed will just be used until it is used up. Hopefully by then I'll be good again, or atleast figure out what the next move is.

No. Might be able to be, but don't think so. I already know your first name and where you live anyways. Don't care really. Continuum grabs more about you than you'd care to know, trust me. But that is another topic. Decided to keep current server though. As I was reminded, just too much bad luck in the past with not hosting ourselves. Sa'll good. We've all got commitments, IE: why I am asking for any help.

Donations Updated. Thanks SD