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^^ there was an extra question

Subspace in its current state, with no work being done on the client will die. Accepting the above statement as true. What if anything should be done?

The same can be said of any website.

they will force u to get it to play new games as only vista will support directx10

but the forum has so few.....threads we need more and fast!!!

Regardless of the other politics.... From a purely nationalist view, what i dont understand is why lebonen is letting israel bomb the crap outta their country. They have a resposibility to protect their citizens, why is the army not defending the country. If you dont defend your country and citizens you dont deserve independance. Support for hezbolla has grown alot in lebonan, why? because the lebanese government is doing !@#$%^&* all to defend their country. If another country was bombing the crap outta mine i would definatlly be wanting my country to fight back, and to protect its citizens!!!

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is this a problem with my installer too as they are related (both use inno setup) or just the getcontinuum one?

deleting threads == burning books stop it.

The installer at SSDL uses innoSetup. http://www.jrsoftware.org This doesnt need much scripting knowledge if you are doing something simple and you can download a free gui program for it. http://www.jrsoftware.org/is3rdparty.php There is also a decompiler http://innounp.sourceforge.net/ so you can extract the script of the orignal setup and use that as a starting point. If you want you can use the decompiler on my setup as well as the SSDL and see what changes i made (I am happy to give the raw script if u want it as well) I cut a few files out to reduce download time.

Just something to think about... Before making it the main installer you may wish to consider making the installer a plain .exe file. Windows Installer (msi) is not installed on some computers and also may mean harder setup on wine (correct me if im wrong im just guessing here..). The existing .exe installer at SSDL (which my 0.39pre1 installer is based on) needs no third party components is also a smaller download...

how do you update the directory servers? In my installer i currently have it write them to the registry.

if you still can't find it.... theres always ssdir.playsubspace.com I know for sure its on there

the guns that let you shoot like the lanc from TW on crack need changing

i'd like to see 3d ships and possibly maps! While keeping the 2d (top down) perpective. Would mean you could have some cool lighting and explosion effects (client side obviously, server doesnt care how stuff blows up), and it would make it easier to design new ships, you would just need to create one 3d model, no more splitting etc. You could allow people to design new types of guns and lasers and even have a sheild effect when u get hit I suppose it also would give you the option of piloting the ship first person style (like a car though no up and down this is a 2d universe!!!!) however if u did u would die quick me thinks EDIT::::: Hammer of Thor

on my own i doubt i would ever complete a client. it would take about a year to get a alpha/early beta quality new client with a team of programmers, if someone started an open source project and a group of peope got involved it would be a more productive use of my time to help with that. Modeling it on other Os projects that are sucessfull you would obviously have to have a group of people who were the core team. You would operate a monthly rotating presidency who would have final say while he/she is president. Each member of the core team would would be responsible different sections, such as UI, graphics, sound + music, physics, anti hacking etc, these tasks would then be availablt for all the programmers to do, core team member would be responsible for code quality control etc. You would start with the basics, and build modually on them, Each month you would focus on one thing. Like for example one month would be, banners another could be basic ship settings. etc etc.

I wasnt asking for help My idea i have wont involve and changes to the exe, it will be a client ONLY based change that will allow u to "plugin" things such as winamp into the game. The reverse enginerring is being done for the purposes of interoperability which "IS" legal, at least it is in my country and has been supported by a number of court cases. Think similar to xfire, only the subspace chat interface does all the work. But im thinking now this might be kinda a waste of time (gonna take at least 6 months to get it to work and im being optimistic) why not just start workin on an entirly new client with this support already inbuilt...

so?

Well theres always rentacoder, then u can outsource it

reverse engineering or hacking the continuum client to do more stuff isnt impossible...I'm working on a plugin system, dont hold your breath though, it will be at least 6 months before i have anything workable to show...my low level language and windows internals knowlege is poor and this requires alot of it...but i think it is possible...im sure someone smarter than me would find it easy...