Aileron

The Current Clan Scores in the Subspace RPG, 8/17/07: SSCentral Gods 716 (18) SSCentral !@#$%^&*ans 517 (11) The Followers of Dav1 454 SSCentral Penis 374 (46) Best Attack: JDS Best Defense: Dav Best Covert: Rasta420 Best Sentry: Rasta420 Next Ship: Oldskool Spider will be introduced 8/30/07 Daily Comment: The Peon Revolution has finally been quelled today. What started as a strike by bankers quickly escalated to an all out revolution by peons from all walks of life. This started when Ailestani strike-breakers driving armored trucks with mounted machine guns attempted to negotiate with the striking bankers. However, the negotiations failed to come to the proper outcome when the strikers managed to produce some heavy howitzers. An Ailestani commander was heard exclaiming, "Where the f___ did those peons get those from?!?" News of this victory spread to peons of all walks of life. Soldiers were tired of having to constantly be sent to war for absolutely no reason. Mercenaries were tired of having to be human shields for regulars. Spies were tired of dying on futile sabotage missions just to possibly damage some weapons. All in all, the peon were tired of living in brutal dictatorships run by idiots. They decided to join their banking brothers, and started an all out grab to replace the fueding dictatorships with something that would respect the peons. The attacks started with this comm broadcast, which was down throughout the fighting, but is back up today. Ultimately, the peons were set back in line today by a combination of experimental knockout gas and new mind controll chips inserted into the more defiant individuals. Finally, order has been restored. No sooner did that happen than did chaos break out again. The brutal dictatorships run by idiots agained started waging war against each other. Notably, the often ignored nation run by Mega scored a major victory against Smarties today. At first, the defenders held their ground against Mega's forces. However, over time they did not hold out against the assault, and the attackers managed to take 2 billion points from the battered defenders.

The Current Clan Scores in the Subspace RPG, 7/28/07: SSCentral Gods 698 (26) SSCentral !@#$%^&*ans 506 (19) The Followers of Dav1 454 SSCentral Penis 328 (28) Best Attack: JDS Best Defense: Dav Best Covert: !@#$%^&*onearth Best Sentry: Dav Next Ship: Oldskool Warbird will be introduced 7/30/07 Daily Comment: The bankers continue to be on strike today. This comes as a result of some ridiculous hauls recently. The strike started with JDS's bankers in after the dozenth time he stole 200mil+ from Keiver. However, it rapidly moved to all divisions of the banking union as other nations started bringing in big hauls. Today for instance, the rather obscure nation lead by Knightflame took in a total of 723mil points from multiple targets. The sum of points these bankers are expected to count up is staggering in some places, while in other places bankers have to spend an equal amount of time estimating losses. A comination of having to work long hours, not seeing their families, and poor personal hygene, has pushed the bankers to where they can't take it anymore. As such, the Very Big Bankers Union is on strike and none of the nations can access the funds in their banks. The government of Ailestan, usually considered a dictatorship run by nutty towel-heads, has been chosen as a nuetral party to negotiate a settlement with the bankers union. The union demands shorter hours, an increase in number of workers, and more pay. The Ailestani government demands that the whiny ingrates get back to work. Negotiations broke apart today, but will re-open tomorrow. The Ailestani government remains confident that a settlement will be reached once the armored trucks with mounted gatling guns arrive.

Look, there is one thing to keep in mind. This is a free game where nothing but honor is at stake, and the amount of honor gained from winning is inversely proportional to your odds. If the odds are stacked against you, then if you lose, it is little dishonor, but if you win, great honor is gained. Also, if the odds are stacked in your favor, then when you win there is little honor gained and much dishonor if you could not pull a victory even under those cir!@#$%^&*stances. Thus, it is foolish to complain about the odds. If you think JDS's points are unfair, then if you can beat him you can say "I beat you even with your advantage.", and if you lose you can say "Okay, I lost but you had an advantage."

As stated in the above, attacks are now re-opened. As for the "income problem" which started all this, there have been complaints that a lot of people made a lot of money this way. There was a proposal to take those winnings away. However, also keep in mind that earlier, the followers of Dav1 joined the SSCentral Gods, and afterwards I meantioned that any subsequent decision would be made to benefit the clans which are behind. Well, guess what, its subsequent decision time. The people who made tons of points will keep their tons of points. If this has a drastic impact on the game, then the tallies will be merged.

Hey, us evil masterminds have our little tricks for acquiring a ridiculous number of minions to do our bidding. The problem is that they are as dumb as tacks, are knocked unconcious every time someone as much as touches them, are oblivious to everything going on around them, crash every vehicle I let them drive, (especially if there are two others nearby carrying a panel of gl!@#$%^&*) and have aim so bad that they couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, with an automatic weapon carrying 50 rounds, from the inside of that barn. However, they are excellent for fetching me a good cup of coffee. Seriously, I edited myself a large number of spies so as to make it easier to see what's going on. I'll get rid of them before attacks open up.

The SS RPG is back up. I'll leave debates as to what went wrong for the other topics. This topic is purely devoted to simply stating the situation. Over the course of the last few weeks, it has been down. During that time it had been closed to all players and income was turned off, thus freezing the situation. Currently, the clan list is still busted. The icons for the Warbird and Javelin did not survive the trip. Those icons will be replaced soon enough. When the game went down, the Oldskool Warbird was scheduled to be entered, and the Oldskool Javelin is scheduled to be entered now. Both ships will be added. As for the income problem, the result is unknown. Players still have a lot of money out, but that is a result of what they have left from when they had uber income, which has been frozen all this time, and is still here now. However, the language cache file which is believed to have caused the problem has been fixed. Thus, it will take a day to determine whether or not the problem has been solved. The plan at this point is to open up attacks at 1:00 PM tomorrow. However, if the income problem persists, there simply might be a reset. The poll above is in regards to whether or now the round should be resetted now or when it was origionally scheduled.

FYI, over the course of the last few weeks the entire forum has been moving. It did only take a couple days to solve the income problem. Its just that other problems on the admin end of things kept popping up. To use an analogy, it was like a lightbulb with a switch located inside a room with one door. The bulb went dead, so the switch was turned off, and the lightbulb replaced. However, just as the new one was put in, the whole house was moved, the doorframe collapsed, and the electrical wiring was damaged. Basically one week was spent waiting for the rubble to be cleared so that somebody could access the switch, and the other week was spent fixing the electrical system. While the delay was deplorable, the root cause is mostly related to the forum moving, so if someone is to be blamed, it should be the persons who were being paid to provide lousy customer service and thus causing us to seek services elseware.

whew.... I thank God first and Polix second, for the rpg is now up and running. Income was shut down intentionally. Its back up now. Game open, attacks closed, topic closed.

(PMs Polix the details) I had a vacation last weekend and was busy with work yesterday, sorry.

Okay, new !@#$%^&*essment of when the RPG is coming back up: It will be up when it will be up. Obviously its a problem related to the move. I know what the specific problem with the RPG is and how to solve it, but like the last time I can't access the files I need to.

It should be fixed by tomorrow.

Currently working on it.

Whoops. I'll be turning things back on now...

Well, that's it. In my basement I have a little shrine to all the people who have contributed a lot to the Continuum community. There are little statuettes representing the SS Council, and little totems to all of the major zone and server owners, as well as to various long standing players. Due to his delaying the forum move and thus the RPG for so long, Swift is now off the shrine.

Its impossible to read numbers while dreaming. Its one of those right brain/left brain things.

Good lord! And I felt bad about having to take the weekend off to help my cousin move. Here I come back and its still down. Technically attacks are already closed. So is income. With as long as this is taking, even if the stats come back up, there might be a reset taking place anyway.

My control panel is broke. The RPG will be back up when it is fixed.

I am trying to turn it back on. The problem is that I can't access the componants right now, seemingly due to connection speed. And, yes, if it does come back on, and the system is reset, there will be a 24 hour no-attack period. (I didn't announce it because there's still a chance that a reset is what's going to happen.

attraction, the next round will be in September unless the recent bug blew up the game. (If the round continues then there is a new ship today, one with a deduction bonus)

If a reset will happen, it will be because everyone's accounts are fried, not as a result of any player's actions. And, the reason no-one can access the RPG is because I turned it off. I'll turn it on as soon as I can. Right now, its raining. My 56k modem is even slower than usual and I can't access the componants. I'll try again in a couple hours.

It wasn't just him. A lot of people attacked after things got screwy. The behavior doesn't count as "exploiting bugs" either. They are just doing simple attacks. Granted, they hauled about four times more than usual, but the fault was that people had higher incomes than they were supposed to. Trust me, JDS took more points from you during your two-day abscense, and in terms of the catagories that will count over the next two months you still have a big lead. Besides, if your goal is to keep Dav as #1, don't fear because he participated in the attack spree too. So many people attacked that if I resetted everyone who did so, it would amount to half the players. Thus, if the game comes back, those people won't be reset. Maybe a bonus will be given to those who didn't attack.

We are experiencing critical technical difficulties with the SS RPG. It looks the the language cache was set as read-only, causing the recent problems with the bank and the ridiculous income. Yesterday I thought it was just the bank, and figured that I could back everyone's accounts up with a hard-copy so as to not require a full reset. However, now this problem seems to be affecting the main SS RPG Core as well. Immeadiately, attacks are closed, income is frozen, and the SS RPG has been turned off. If this problem is solved favorably, it will re-open. Since I can't penalized everyone who carried out attacks during this period, no one will be penalized. However, that is only a best-case scenario, and an unlikely one at that. Most likely, it will take a complete re-installation of the core. That would mean a reset would have to occur immeadiately, bringing this round to a close. I'd bet about a 90% chance that the round will have to end. This should take at most two days to solve, but don't hold me to that.

!@#$%^&*. Well, attacks are closed pending an investigation. Also, don't worry about my possible sudden development of an elite covert. I won't use it to sab anyone, just to see what's going on.

sorry, I didn't reply to your pm because I don't have an answer. Most likely because the core does have features which prevents people from transferring via attack, features which seem to be doing their intended function in this case. As for the bank, I found the problem. Read the other topic.

Yeah, I see the problem. Something with the language cache. I'll have to fix it tomorrow, as it will involve reinstalling the bank. Doing this will take some time, and doing it in such a way as to avoid screwing everyone with bank accounts over will take even more time. It looks like only a couple of people have accounts, but I still want to do this right.