Admiral Kirk

So long and thanks for all the fish. Leaving SS is like getting unplugged from the Matrix, welcome to the real world bud Good luck

@Hakaku My appologies if my comments were inflamatory, no offense was meant and I appreciate your level-headedness in replying to it. My fault for letting my frustration form my response. I believe you are correct in your sumation of the situation. I just wish it could have turned out differntly from the start. I owe this game a great deal for where I am in the word today. A professional programmer making good money with a loving wife who is several months into the process of creating our first child. None of it would have ever happened if not for this game, quite litterly. I just wish we could have all worked together to do more, but I guess everything has its time and perhaps the bell for this game has started to toll.

Snrrrub, long time no talk, send me a PM if you happen to read this, might be nice to catch up. As for the rest of you, all I can do is shake my head. SVS never understood, and niether do most of the rest of you. I personaly know 5 people with sufficient information in thier possession (myself included) to code a cheating client that would pass as Continuum. The reason you dont have a horde of cheaters on your hands isnt because of Priit's masterfull encryption (although what he did with the exe was pretty impressive from what Snrrrub has described) but because no one realy cares anymore.

Holy crap on a stick this post makes me feal old... I cant believe your still at this Pol

kirk.sscentral.com is gone. If their is any continued interest in this code or any of the other SS source i have drop me a line at kirk56k (at) gmail (dot) com and I'll find some other place to put the files, if i can ^^. But since I think anyone who actually wanted it already has it I'd save myself the trouble unless someone else actually needs it.

Well, first time I've been back here in about a eon... Not sure why I started googling Continuum to and stumbled accross this forum again. And even more not sure why I happened to remember my login lol. Anyway, point being if anyone is actualy interested in starting MG back up for whatever reason I believe I have the only complete copy of the entirety of the server files just before the server was shutdown by Freakmonger. Including bots maps, settings, SSC biller pw's etc. Not that I expect most of it is usefull now some odd what 6 years later? Anyway, if any of it would be usefull to anyone you can send me a line at kirk56k (at) gmail (dot) com. If anyone had a serious interest in it I could probably dump the files on an FTP server or something. Honestly I'm just kind of surprised that this game and its supporters still exists ^^ its impressive realy.

If you live in NewEngland dont bother with FairPoint Fiber, I tried for a month and a half to get them to activate.. ACTIVATE!! an existing fiber connection in the house I bought and they couldnt do it, then I told them to go screw themselves and got Cable, a week later.. i got a bill.. no service, just a bill. Bloody morons. Dont much care for cable but at least they got the service thier and activated inside a few days.

Kittens! Your argument is invalid...

Mmm, Narcissism, yummy

Shock has the gist of it, although the boot failure is probably due to data corruption and not as specific as inaccessible boot device. Lenovo's are the only laptops we buy here at the shop one of the biggest reasons being the shock protection built into the harddrives (Lenovo = IBM Thinkpad). http://www.ubcd4win.com/ Thats your best bet for trying to run a chkdsk which is realy your only remote hope. If that fails than its a new drive. Replacing drives in laptops is generaly very easy, the important part is finding out what kind of drive it uses, most take standard 2 1/2 size laptop drives, but some, like tablets, require special smaller drives. Check the bottom of the laptop, one or two screws should have you the drive in hand. Good luck ^^.

Ragnarok is game whos server code was reverse engineered many years ago. Thier are several server emulators available now and even the official server code in some of its earlier revisions can be had. Thier are somewhere around 200-300 "private" Ragnarok servers available. Each with their own styles, settings, customizations and levels of professionalism. Some server operators do a good job of putting together an easily download-able and installable client package. Others only know how to do the most basic setup, which usual involves a combination of installing the Korean client, the English Client, and then a customization on top of those two to make the resulting client connect to their servers. A little googling will provide the top lists for private Ragnarok servers and you can usually go from their. Some of the more professionally run servers are almost as good as the official ones, but 90% of the private ones are a joke. Cant speak for this one in particular though.

Long time no see bud, hows things going? I've almost finished my first commercial coding project, in the QA dept now man they are ripping it to shreds though, getting bug reports almost every day for 3 weeks now . Anyway, drop me a line!

As per Cre>'s request, I finally got around to packaging up logicbot2's source code with the appropriate license. This program is written in C++ and uses several very advanced techniques. If you can only just barely manage a working MERV plugin, this code is definitely not for you. Again, I don't really think anyone will find this source code as a hole very useful. Plenty of people have done the SS protocol in C++ and much better than me. Thier are some interesting C++ tidbits in here, like a working Plugin architecture and an advanced exception handling mechanism that can catch exceptions within the plugins, unload the plugin and write an entire stack dump without crashing the bot itself. Anyway, as always, no warranty express or implied, use at your own risk. If you have questions feel free to post em, cant guarantee I'll answer them but I'll try. Have fun! http://www.gnu.org/graphics/gplv3-127x51.png LogicBot2 - Code Only LogicBot2 - Code and Working Builds

As per Cre>'s request, I finally got around to packaging up logicbot2's source code with the appropriate license. This program is written in C++ and uses several very advanced techniques. If you can only just barely manage a working MERV plugin, this code is definitely not for you. Again, I don't really think anyone will find this source code as a hole very useful. Plenty of people have done the SS protocol in C++ and much better than me. Thier are some interesting C++ tidbits in here, like a working Plugin architecture and an advanced exception handling mechanism that can catch exceptions within the plugins, unload the plugin and write an entire stack dump without crashing the bot itself. Anyway, as always, no warranty express or implied, use at your own risk. If you have questions feel free to post em, cant guarantee I'll answer them but I'll try. Have fun! http://www.gnu.org/graphics/gplv3-127x51.png LogicBot2 - Code Only LogicBot2 - Code and Working Builds

After being a zone owner for 6 years you kinda loose your taste for actually playing the game. I stopped playing the game 8 years or so before I actually left it. Honestly, their just isn't enough tactics in SS to interest me anymore. I used to play SVS zones when they were actually popular, basically once Realms became MG I stopped playing. I loathe one shot kill settings, its like playing counter strike, nothing but a bunch of lame head shots. No energy management, no rationing of specials, no perfect timing for that final shot. All the zones have dumbed down their settings, basically _removing_ aspects of the game. Why? Because the 4 y/o's that this game is most popular with now, demand it. So I'm not saying that anything should change honestly, whatever the majority demand is the best course of action. But that's why I personally left.