Bargeld

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Welcome back to the real world! You've done a lot for the game and you shouldn't have any regrets about stay or leaving. Life goes on... You'll always be a newbie to me!

The tiles are still 16x16 though, in the end you will end up fitting 2 ships thru each empty tile that provides a 'door'. We did this same thing years ago too, we had a mini in alpha. It makes you feel like there is a ton of space, but it doesn't actually DO anything for you. Take those screeners, and scale and crop them to 800x480 and imagine yourself reading chat and trying to control your ship and all your weapons. An external keyboard will definately be required just to play & use weapons & chat. I really really WANT this to not be true... but seriously, just imagine trying to play like this. Also consider that most other tablet and phone games have much less functions/buttons and are mostly 'point and click'. I'm not suggesting that anyone STOP developing SS/Continuum/anyOtherClient, I'm just suggesting that those who are going this route, trying to bring the game to the mainstream platforms of today, might consider taking a couple steps back and re-evaluating what they can do to further the community. Basically, forget about making a mobile/facebook/etc client, and focus on the game on a PC, where it's pretty much guaranteed to stay. Along similar lines, has anyone made an external chat client that is stable, multi-platform and doesn't require anyone to be on spcial VIP lists or have sysadmin access? I've always wanted that on a phone

Subspace is/was a great game. Awesome community, awesome people (most of em). To put this simply, the game requires high resolution. Most PC monitors and televisions now are 1920x1080 for HD video. For those of you who used to drool about the dell and apple monitors that do 2560x2048 know what I'm talking about. In this day and age of handheld devices and HD mainstream, subspace can never excel. The game simply isn't anywhere near as enjoyable at 800x480 as it is at 1600x1200. Even dropping to the resolutions of HD is like playing through a mail slot in a door. The game with thrive only as long as there are players out there with monitor purchases dedicated to this game. But playing on a tablet or phone... never gonna happen. Sorry to be a downer, but I just dropped in after many years and saw this topic and thought I would share with the community the same struggles that were apparent 5-10 years ago. And hi Polix, Ulti, Jenn_B, NfS, hallu and all the others that are still lurking about. Glad to see some of ya all are still keeping it going. Have fun! http://bargeld.us/storage/alpha.gif

I found this post in an attempt to figure out why Alpha was showing up in the directory servers with 10 population, but with the inability to connect to it. The zone *should* not be available or listed at all. I will throw a curveball into all of this ownership stuff and mention the idea of commonlaw. After 7 years in many US states, a couple living together is regognized by that state as a married couple. Apply a similar concept to Alpha Zone (east west Zone, whatever you wanna call it.) I was one of the original 3 sysops to the zone, appointed by Minbari Warship back in 1997/98. I was the last standing of those 3 sysops for roughly 7-8 years, running the zone solo, with a staff. The map is from the CD. The original tileset is from the CD. The orange/blue (newer) tileset is MINE, I created it (not psyops). The zone settings are 98% SVS from the CD, with the exception of new lag settings, which were introduced sometime in the middle when new software was developed, as well as some changes to the amount of greens and freq size (due to lower population). The zone was up and running until one day psyops shot me an e-mail that went something along the lines of 'btw I made some changes to pub, come look'. I looked, and sure enuf, he had added this dynamic 'wall' that expanded and shrunk as population changed. After some bickering (as was common between us, as Psy was for change, and I was for preservation) Psy refused to accept my wishes. Because the zone had an average population of 4 (2 bots and 2 afk in private subarenas) for more than a year or two, I decided that it would be better to shelve the zone and house it's arena in Chaos and secure an SSC slot for Psyops so that he could continue his development in his own zone BattleSVS. At the time (and also recently) Psy refused to accept the slot and so BattleSVS never came to fruition. Most recently, I heard that Psy had purchase a website for alpha and was petitioning to have Alpha reinstated as a zone under his management. This is when I stepped in again, had it out (again) with psy, and came to the same result (again). He took his new alpha site down for a week or so, but brought it back up again. I have learned that Alpha West has been listed in the directory servers in the aforementioned state for about as long. Back to square one... I still exist. I still have continuum installed. I'm still on the council forums and my account still functions on this forum. I still pop into Chaos from time to time. I have also dedicated about 12 years to Alpha zone. Circling back to the concept of commonlaw marriage, shouldn't this continue to allow me to call the shots for Alpha (Zone)? If you want to really get into ownership... BDE owns SVS and could very well shut down continuum in a legal battle if they decided to take the proper actions. Priitk made a copyright infringing client for a dying game that got shelved, yet maintains a feeble population of 1000 players or more. It is unmarketable from a financial gains standpoint, which is why we are allowed to persist. Everything else here is based on respect and long term relationships forged over more than a decade. SSCouncil are not Vangels. We do not own the game any more than anyone else. As any long term member of the SSC should attest to, we have been at the whim of Ghost Ship for a decade. Once Priitk abandoned this project, GS was left in the wake and still remains to this day. Ultimately, any requests and any ability that any player make or has, can be removed by GS alone. This is not a slight to you at all, Ghost. The game has run quite smoothly given the aforementioned reality that we have dealt with. The SSCouncil has the needed organization to maintain order as needed amoungst those connected to central billing. The billing ops and other high-end admins have also played their roles throughout the years. But I will mention that there is almost NO member within these circles that hasn't been accused of some form or corruption at one time or another. People have come and gone and the only thing that has persisted through all of this are the memories of friends and acquantances, and the knowledge and respect that these Sysops, Admins, 'owners', and the like have kept. If there are still requests with regards to Alpha Zone, I can bring up the sentiments of many from our community... some are for it and some are against it... for many differing reasons. But ultimately I would request that the zone continue to stay down, as Psyop's 'version' of Alpha Zone is not Alpha Zone. Psy deserves BattleSVS with his battleBot from UDP and his own decision making. But that zone should stick to the guidelines that have existed for years with regards to infrigement on other zones. BTW, hi everybody

It's not really a bug, it just happens because that's how the multiplayer part of the game is made. There is really no way to correct it.

You need to create a shortcut to the new continuum039pr1.exe. The shortcut you are using is referring back to the old .38 version and throws an error. View the FAQ thread at the top of the Tech support forum for more info.

The way that all 'ongoing' traces function allows it to happen. It doesn't trace to the destination and then take hop times from there. It determines the path during the initial stages of starting the trace, then I queries each IP address along the way, one at a time. So if you happen to have a moment of network traffic at an earlier hop, you can get an ms ping. The latency clears up and the next hop reports back normally, at 10 ms. Client -> Hop 1 (10 ms) Client -> Hop 2 (10 ms) Client -> Hop 3 ( ms - cuz there was some network traffic while sending to this IP) Client -> Hop 4 (10 ms - the temporary network traffic has subsided and therefore doesnt impact this ping) Client -> Hop 5 (10 ms) etc. Then it repeats. This is why, when you watch a trace from the main menu of Continuum, the time it takes to update each hop, as it progresses, takes longer than a single ping to the destination. The time it takes to update each hop should be about the same as the latency to that hop (which it reports) + the latency of the return trip (which isn't reported) + processing time.

Put them in the "skins" folder. If you don't have one, make it (c:\program files\continuum\skins)

If you can find out what device is having the problme (video card, sound card, network card, etc.) physically remove that device before booting and see if you can reload drivers for it manually.

Some DNS servers don't properly route to certain IP addresses. If you are using a router/gateway, use DHCP to dish out the IP addresses and DNS servers to your computer (set your network TCP/IP settings to "automatic". That's probably not the prob tho, seeing as how you can ping it... my bad. I think it's firewall related, because ping uses a different port and application to hit the directory server vs. continuum. You probably need to disable your firewall or confire it to allow continuum unlimited access to the internet. It probably worked on your old computer because a warning popped up the first time and you allowed it access... after that it never asked again, nor caused probs.

DNS problem?

Yeah, this really has nothing to do with ss/continuum.

turn off 3d sound

Run some traces and watch it and see what is happening when the ploss goes crazy. It's probably some program in the background acting up... figure out which one it is and uninstall it. Run some anti-spyware apps and an anti-vrus.

Choose a Playername that starts with a letter or number... no odd characters.

I think they install it into a "sounds" directory, instead of "sound"...check the spelling. Also, make sure you have 3d sound turned OFF. What sound card is it too? We might be able to find something.

If the refreshed zones still do not work, there may be a firewall in place which is blocking your gaming connection to those zones.

It's a permissions problem, reinstall into a different directory.

Re-install DX.. cuz it's definately ponting in that direction. There is a stand alone installer which will re-install, in case you have a problem with it refusing to update cuz you have the most recent version already.

At least stretch the cable out so it isn't in a big coil (this is how electromagnetic interference is created) and move it away from the power if possible. I used to take my long cord and do 3-5 ft. lengths back and forth over each other... it's not perfect, but it's better than a ball (coil) of wire.

I just noticed the 40KB max download... What kind of connection is this? Although you say 'cable modem', that is often used generically. Often times people say that even if they have DSL (in which case it's technically a DSL modem.) There are all kinds of connections available and service providers and it's very important to know exactly what type of service it is: Cable (and the advertised speed of the cable service) DSL (and the advertised speed) ISDN (and speed) Satellite High-speed dialup etc. If you are connecting directly to the 'modem' and there is loss, I will go back to what I told people back in the dialup days: wiggle the wires, wiggle the connectors, make sure you arent running the cable near strong power lines, and make sure you dont have a 50 ft cable with half of it rolled into a loop sitting in the corner.

Windows themes may be the problem... possibly any windows cuustomization programs like windowblinds, etc.

Please veiw the FAQ, as this is a common problem for many people. Usually it is the fault of an anti-spyware or antivirus program. You ma need to add continuum to an exception list or white list, or possibly disable your protection program in order to play.

Choose a Playername that starts with a letter or number... no odd characters.