BlueGoku

Remind me again why it is that SSC has such a bad rep when stuff like this seems to happen all the time on the non-SSC billers? This is what happens when instead of a council of mature individuals controlling a biller you have one or two guys who are obviously not mature enough. The last big thing that happened within the SSC was SVS flipping out a couple of years ago, but even then the situation was diffused before it even had a chance to escalate, with GS removing him entirely.

I was more or less looking for an opinion based on gaming and stuff. Like, "I can run Crysis with everything turned up on very high at 1920x1200 resolution with 50 FPS!!" I don't think that's actually possible, but you get my point =p.

Very neat. Is that video card any good? I was under the impression the nVidia cards were rocking the ATI's now. Also, love the picture of your cat. Good stuff.

This is an outrage, I demand reparations! Thanks for the heads up though

It seems to me you're most likely NOT going to get unbanned. My suggestion would be to find another game, possibly a single player one where hacking won't affect anyone other than yourself.

Two things: from re-reading his original post, Ace already patted Riistar on the back for doing most of the work. And I completely disagree with you about the SSC forum. We've got something like 99% of the zone sysops signed up on it now. It's -already- served the purpose it was created for, a place where the SSC can easily communicate with zone sysops and where they can easily and safely communicate with eachother. But ya, I'm not gonna get into this whole thing again, as far as the SSC is concerned, though, the forum is serving its purpose.

Hey folks. I need a web developer for HZ's site, www.rshl.org. Said person needs to know PHP well enough to be able to read our scripts and be able to start helping out with minor pointers. If needed, the person that wrote most scripts is still around to answer questions though. Ideally this person would just be tasked with coding some new features we've been aching for, but the position can lead to a webmaster position (which is currently unfilled) from which you'd have access to all of our web designers and artists. Send me a PM or post here if interested. Please only contact me if you are very familiar with PHP, as all of our scripts are written in PHP. Thanks!

I've only browsed the old site twice, I mean, we haven't used bots in HZ since 2005 =P. From what I remember though, it wasn't very user-friendly at all nor was it organized well. Overall it looked like a pile of crap. Which is fine, because obviously Catid wasn't going for a website award, it was just a storage space for subspace robots. Was the make-over absolutely required? No. Was it needed? Yes. If Ace didn't make this post or was part of this project people would be saying the new site looks much better. Cut the guy some slack, it's not like YOU are the ones spending time working on the site. Jesus.

We need some Polix calendars too.

Iunno man, I've seen some pretty good charades =p.

We'd have to see some preview pics.

Yes, guys pretending to be girls is completely unheard of in SS, Samapico =p.

Are we talking tasteful pics or what? Also is audry female? INQUIRING MINDS

It was 6 months ago. Anyway, submit a ticket like Hoch said and the netban ops will take a look at it.

Cop got kicked off the force for that. Ya dood, a red flag should have gone up as soon as you got an offer for the video. Should have gone to the press yourself.

Haven't heard anything about a quality loss. Though there's been many comparisons between the quality of the PS3 and 360 version and the 360 version comes out on top in most of them. Like I said before though, I've got both a 360 and a PS3 so I'm not trying to say the 360 is better (though I prefer it for certain games).

Actually, it's the other way around. GTA4, like the upcoming Force Unleashed, was delayed because of problems with the PS3, not the 360. The PS3, while it may have more raw power, is harder to develop on. http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/50937 http://www.theforce.net/latestnews/story/d...shed_111577.asp

Haha Chamb, your analogy is awesome =p. I dunno, I tend to agree with Samapico. The more exposure the game gets the better. I'd sooner be worried about square-enix closing its doors than Sony shutting the PS3 down. Besides, I'm still willing to bet the game will look better on the PS3.

Just for some background: I've had a 360 since December '06, though it was starting to RRoD this year so I grabbed an Elite in January. I've gotten a lot of mileage out of it. When MGS4 came out, I went out and bought a PS3. I wanted the 80gb special edition one but I couldn't find it in stock anywhere near Toronto, so I had to settle for the 40gb with no backwards compat. Oh well, my PS2 is still hooked up since my TV's got 2xHDMI and 1xVGA. But I digress, I bought the PS3 namely for MGS4, Drake's Fortune, and FFXIII. I honestly don't see why the -players- are getting so upset that FFXIII is coming for 360. Why do non-Sony employees care that it won't end up pushing out more PS3s? They're making money (as of recently anyway) so it's not like Sony will suddenly go out of business. I see no reasoning as to why one wouldn't want FFXIII available on both 360 and PS3. If you like the series you should hope that it gets as wide a release as possible, to ensure they'll keep making them. As for me, I'll probably end up getting it for PS3, just because Square is used to developing on the Playstation systems and with games recently pushing the hardware to its limit (MGS4), I think it's safe to assume the game will look spectacular and noticeably better on PS3.

I <3 ya Phong, but that's something you'll need to take up with GS directly. I don't like going over people's heads. He's a reasonable guy though so he'll at least listen to your request.

Names: If you aren't the rightful owner of the name, I won't reset the name for you. Sometimes there are exceptions if, like Polix said, Cancer+ wanted to use the name Cancer as his main alias and it only had like 10 hours of usage and hadn't been used since 2001. Squads: If the squad is unknown and you would like to use it as a league squad, I'll usually reset it for you but then follow up and make sure you are actually using it and not trading it or something. As for the automatic reset formula, it only works on names. It DOES work, but it's not the most accurate way of resetting inactives. I've had an experiment running since 2005 now, a name with only 10 hours of usage but squadjoined to a squad and wearing a banner. I don't think it'll ever reset. The formula takes into account: whether it's joined to a squad or not, # of squads owned, whether it's wearing a banner, usage, logins and when it was last used among other things. As well, squads that are unknown MAY have reset at one point if no one was squadjoined, but this is no longer the case.

Worked for HZ with no proxy. Are you recycling the zones and waiting a good minute or two before the connection is fully up? I noticed that after I set it to the old IP, HZ still said it wasn't connected to the DB, but after about a minute or so the message came up about being connected and I had to relog in.

We're back on the real biller now. We were on a temporary biller hosted at a different data center while the old data center was trying to get that fire put out =p. If your zone isn't connected, tell your sysops to change the biller ip back to the old one.

Trace it when it happens and PM the trace to me.