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But even getting SSC won't get you anywhere. Yeah, you can talk to people in other SSC zones. But if you can't get players to support your zone off SSC, getting SSC won't help. In all honesty it cut my zone's pop in half, and killed quite a few zones over time. Look at Fusion for the most recent example. The 1st zone in years that got population off SSC and had a large following. Once it got SSC it slowly began its downfall. Not saying you shouldn't get it, cause by todays standards, you've long met them. Just saying, SSC isn't everything. Don't expect it to turn your zone around overnight. If anything, you'll have more work ahead of you, as most players think SSC zones without pop are dead, or noone wants to play them. Can thank all the merged but still online and dev ssc zones for that.

When I was working on/running zones (2000), you only had SSCE (Ghost Ship's SSCE), SSCU (BD_Vine), and SSCX (Was only Xalimar at the time) as choices for SSC (Besides T3 The Gauntlet itself having SSC). If non of those servers picked you up (VERY rare) and gave you SSC you didn't get it. I had a zone with constant 60+ pop, and peaking over 100 a few times, and it took almost 2yrs to finally get SSC, and we we're the 1st server in 2-3yrs at that time to be allowed SSC access outside of the major servers. Now adays you just have to know the right people and be on 1 of the many with access. Lots of SSC zones and zones who get SSC who really didn't work for it, or don't need it, but they have or got it anyways.

There is advertising and then there is advertising. Most zones don't care, if you ASK. Even some with rules against it will occasionally be nice, or you'll catch the right op in the right mood and they'll zone it. Starting a zone in the current state of this game is hard if you expect it to really go anywhere, which is why most developers have just attached onto zones. Though trust me, it was harder in the past, much harder.

Ah. So SSA. Snrrrub is part of those things going on that will somewhat be announced shortly. So doubt he's had anytime to think about SSC zones. Also, just give it time right now. Patience for all will pay off in the coming months, all I can say there.

Never assume you know everything going on. Just wait til SSForum's next newsletter. Going to be A LOT of interesting updates on it. And it won't even be everything going on as of late. Now as for the SSC, I honestly myself can't say I've seen any non-ssc zones pulling any sort of population. Nor do I even know what zone it is you run? I'd say this is probably your problem. If your zone isn't well known and popular, it probably isn't going anywhere. Edit: Was just told your zone is Armada Assail? A zone that in the past month has had an average pop of 0? And it doesn't look like you yourself have even spent anytime in?

It all depends actually. A lot of levels have hidden mechs that you can find and use, or just run them on foot. I'd say its 60:40 foot:mech if you use all the mechs.

Tried re-downloading your zone list?

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I didn't even get more than 2/3 of the way through before I got bored of it. Buy it used if you do. Was 10.99 used for 360 for me. Normally like 29.99 or 39.99 new still.

Jay-Z - Brooklyn (We Go Hard)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28672018/?GT1=43001 I never liked the guy (family stuff), but I give him props for the way he's bowing out. I can give him that.

Moved.

Yeah, he accidently put the post # as the topic #. Post 222,229... forgot how many we've lost round here over the years, being yours is 242,335. Though that also counts rightfully deleted posts, posts from deleted zone forums and squad forums, etc.

I think I may have finally found a reason to get a PS3 besides an updatable blue ray player.

Look through all his posts... Well, you can't look at all of them since not admin, but in his profile you should be able to see last 5 posts and topics. Show me one that had any worth. Really I'd honestly just ban him from SSForum, but he'd probably be one of the ones to re-register another name and be even more annoying. -Back to Topic-

Machu banned from World Discussion forum... Not quite Jail, internment (sp?) camps... Kinda like the ones in Germany, just without the testing and killing. And also when they we're freed they we're treated like shit still.

Within 100miles of the ocean and of the canadian border, hmm...

I learned mostly from finding open source programs, basic ones. Looking at what they did, and comparing the code they used... Granted this was back in like 99-01 era, so there is sure to be LOTS more info on the web now.

Yeah. The server has been having issues for a lot of people on both sides of the US. It is central, so only natural there. TT is really good about monitoring it, so must be something outta our control.

Windows 7 is previous to Vista and has had even more time spent on it than Vista (which began dev even before XP was released). Then they took some of the features planned for Windows 7 and built them into Vista. I never really heard much about Vista pre-releasing except when it was codenamed "Longhorn", but I have heard lots about Windows 7 from a friend who got into MS. They've been taking lots of feedback from Vista into Windows 7, and improving on what they had before even. The GUI has changed something like 20x, and I guess Ballmer wanted it to have the same feel as Vista upon release, so you get a lot of the current Vista crap in there. His company, so goes his way sadly. I've switched between *nix and Windows for a while now, but a Vista built laptop w/ XP on it has been my fav so far. Though I will give Windows 7 a good thurough play once it is released.

Well I was slightly dissapointed to see noone had posted up links to Windows 7 beta on my fav warez forum, but this did cheer me up: http://technabob.com/blog/2008/08/06/bbq-grill-casemod/ I'm not big into case mods and stuff, but I give this 1 an A+ for creativity.

Well XP was outbenching Vista on some things, but I guess Windows 7 outbenches them both on almost everything. Might need to look to see if it is up on my favorite forums yet or not.

Entered the new years curled up with the g/f, a drink, and Star Wars Music... Yes, seriously: http://www.king5.com/video/index.html?nvid=317851&shu=1 1st song on the needle was the star wars theme, amongst many others (IE: g/f's favs being Beauty and the Beast and Lion King songs). Glad to see my tax payer money going to some good, mhmm. It's a fun 7min to watch, granted wish I coulda made it down there this year.

Do you have a "logs" folder? If not, try making one. if so, make sure that it isn't read only. I don't remember what other settings vista has with writing files privleges.

^ Little over reacting I'd say... Hopefully sarcasm.