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Go up a folder, then hold Shift, and double click the affected folder. All names should reappear; or reappear the next time you open that same folder (at least it works this way for me). Hope this helps.

Not 150k, 1.5Mil... Which would mean I'd be indebted somewhere around 225 000 000$ to 300 000 000$

Well, I played during Christmas, then I went into exams right after... Everytime I do show up, I say !@#$%^&*o on chat, but the zone & chat are usually pretty dead (and if ppl don't pm me, I sometimes don't realize soon enough they entered the zone). It seems afaik, a lot of progress just simultaneously ceased at the same time. No more maps, posts, or randomness to be found (although it doesn't help that a few Deva players have been banned off these forums either). Perhaps an idea late, but get a Valentine's map up for February?

Yeah but the difference is, that Continuum says you entered the wrong password, not that the username is already taken. Most games have a registration form, not a direct login, so they'll tell you if the name is available or not. Not only that, SSC's name database is far older than any other game, and if you attempt to log in too many times (aka sign up/in), Continuum tells the user to try again in a few hours. People generally don't read the content of the error, so they get frustrated and don't understand, and eventually they give up on the game (it's happened to a friend of mine when he tried downloading the game to play). Anyhow, Polix/Sama's suggestion would be good.

Why not allow the user to create a name and password, but automatically suffix the name with randomly generated numbers instead. But numbers are still pretty ugly, and I'd prefer a name reset over that were I a new player.

Continuum's standard is now 0.40, so if you don't have it I'd consider downloading it (here). Just install it in the same folder, it should overwrite older files. And if you've lost your password, read here first, then visit here to request your username back. Hope this helps.

Continuum works perfectly fine on Drive C:\, if you're having write problems, it's because you don't have administrator rights. And even if you do or don't, it's still affected by Vista's UAC (Read here), which is a system built to protect your computer from harm, even from yourself. As for the rest, I highly doubt that it has anything to do with commands.hlp itself ; I can't seem to be able to recreate the problem myself, so it's possible it's related to the UAC, similarly how .log files won't work for everyone. I'd rather know if Inimitable can enter any zones at all? And if he's running any firewalls at all (other than Vista's)?

Try right clicking, "run as administrator"

Are you using Vista?

No, the problem to start with was the fact that american 'intelligence' alledgedly had evidence against M. Arar, which was false. The americans sent him to Syria, knowingly he would be tortured. It wasn't only a failure on Syria's part (which is also listed as a country of torture), it was a failure on the American side. M. Arar had no proven connections whatsoever, he was just a mere Canadian (not even a Syrian), who now seeks answers and compensation for what he was put through. Read the above statement. I think this is playing childish, his full name is Omar Ahmed Khadr; he was born a Canadian. He threw one grenade, at which point he was said to be 'forced to join rebels'. A lot of the information involved in his case is quite far-fetched, as some important key issues were witheld, and parts of the story have changed since he was first captured (the US keeps witholding information, whereas some of it which could be used against them was leaked along the way, but too late to be used). He was detained at the age of 15. Even if acting as a soldier, a child murderer, who could kill far more people, or serial killer under US laws are granted far more freedom and rights than Khadr will ever be granted. Is there that huge of a gap between soldier and civilian? Murderer and soldier? Is Khadr acting as a civilian being bound by shackles, masked, confined/waterboarded/etc. ? How is he being dragged in his own urine his own fault and acting as a civilian? He's not even allowed to speak, a freedom which all civilians elsewhere are granted, so how is he dragging pity on himself to be noticed? How can he have bladder problems if he can't speak, or ask to go to the washroom? -- You seem to grant them far more liberties then those detained actually have. Yes, but at that time, Geneva Conventions did not even exist, and neither did international organisations, such as the "United Nations" (read: Article 11.1). To further add, these prisoners could not be returned to the German to be judged, as they would just become soldiers again. Nowadays, the Canadian laws have changed dramatically from what they used to be (which were very similar to the US' current position). After events such as the Second World War, the FLQ, Japanese Canadian internments; people learn to change from their mistakes. So you can't compare fair trial in modern Canada to the US, because it exists in Canada; and prisoners of war, such as in Afghanistan, stay in Afghanistan and are judged according to their own government's laws, not our own (although their safety and human rights are !@#$%^&*ured by Canada). Unlike the US, who has never returned Khadr to Canada, or any other of its detainies. Anyhow, even today there are still trials happening related to 'german soldiers' of World War 2. And I should underline the word trial, where the people are free to choose whoever they want to have as lawyer and defend themselves. There was a recent one in the news, so claiming that no trials exist under Canadian law is false. You're mixing things up and making a very bad defense, M. Arrar was a victim of Extraordinary Rendition, not Khadr. -- Khadr (at Guantanamo Bay) was put into a stress position, waterboarded, and when he soiled/urinated himself, he was dragged back and forth in his own filth while still short-shackled, where they added Pine Soil, before he was removed. He was also refused any independant medical treatment, refused fair trial, and refused to be handled/defended by anyone Canadian. If these are treatments you want to be conditioned to, your children, or your own soldiers, then go ahead. But it's a value not shared by Canadians; and most US soldiers are not treated as so, so it's very biased to claim that you're treating others who 'supposedly act as soldiers' the same way american soldiers are treated. Were that true, wouldn't Khadr be dead? Wouldn't there be hundreds of detained and captured american soldiers out there by Al-Qaeda? 1. No (Did Americans live in fear of Vietnamese so much that they'd be captured and taken back to Vietnam to be tortured?) 2. They are in a number of places, you just have to visit them (e.g. Cambodia). 3. Pretty irrelevant question, but the answer is no (Canada and the US are partners, not ennemies in many situations) 4. Who said anything about extremists? Were there ever Vietnamese extremists? 5. To re-answer: Are/Were there huge city-wide riots in Canada or Vietnam against the US? etc. etc. Your questions can't really be applied to much (I fail to see how they relate in any way to torture), you can just take Vietnam as one of the best counter examples. The only difference is, Canada isn't going to war, and the list isn't even shared by the government's point of view. And no one ever said the list or even manual was an "Amb!@#$%^&*ador stay-away safety guide for fear of being captured and tortured", it was a list of countries which practice torture (listed in a manual intended for Amb!@#$%^&*adors), no matter how much you want to deny the fact. You seem to define 'terrorists' as almost anything relating to ennemy soldiers, whether in connection to Al-Qaeda or not, whether they practice actual 'terrorism' or not; yet you can't give torture any meaning. So why can't others be allowed to judge based on evidence? Why does defining a part of America where torture exists become a war about Canada vs. America? We aren't at war, but doesn't our freedom of speech allow us to judge each other's actions? I never claimed Canada as perfect, nor is it anywhere in the original post, but deviating from 'torture in America', to 'Canadians should stay away from America because they're neo-nazies' is a bit extreme, no? I don't see American amb!@#$%^&*adors running away from Syria, yet you acknowledge the existance of torture there. I'm sure americans as well as other countries have their own lists, should all writers be kicked just to become newspaper editorialists? Isn't the president's view on war only one man's opinion; should he too be kicked to become a journalist?

Looks like an idle refresh problem, you're probably not using the same resolution as your desktop. You can easily alt-tab in and out of it, or just re-enter the zone.

True, but all countries having a history of atrocities does not make them trailblazers in human rights. And if you want to cite how the US doesn't accept torture, and follows international laws; then that's not quite true. The war on Iraq and Afghanistan would have never occured to the same extent; and the racism and predjudism that occured all around people who originated from the middle east wouldn't have happened either. Although it's difficult to change people's mindset, especially after 9/11, were the US a trailblazer in human rights, you'd think they'd learn from events that have occured around them. As I recall, the whole form of prevention of terrorism and military acts that followed (which override both cons!@#$%^&*ution and UN human rights), were and still are largely criticized to being the same as Canada's history with Japanese Canadian internment. - This is where Maher Arar comes in, he was deported to Syria and tortured, in an example of the United States policy of "Extraordinary rendition". - And also Khadr, who had alledgedly thrown a grenade and killed one US soldier, and therefore was accused as a terrorist and detained without any fair trial whatsoever at the age of 15. - Which also questions the use of Guantanamo Bay and torture : How do you define terrorists when the US is the one invading other countries? How do you define terrorism to child soldiers? (in the case of Khadr, it is unknown as to wether he was forced to take part or not) The US is one of the only countries to use vaguely defined terrorism as an excuse, and the only G8 country to use any form of torture in war (and justify it) and detain prisoners without allowing fair trial if any whatsoever - in modern times. The US has 'refused to apply Geneva Conventions to prisoners of war from Afghanistan, and has misused the designation of 'illegal combatant' to apply to criminal suspects on U.S. soil. They further use the Military Commissions Act of 2006 as an excuse to allow torture legally.

Once in a while I'll just have a completely black screen at the exception of a seeing a random jav (as rootbear stated), the other times/most of the time I'll see this (what it's suppose to look like) : http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/8808/demomb3.th.png The controls are still too touchy though.

It's exactly as I wrote, and Samapico too. But for step-by-step instructions they're listed below. 1. Open up notepad and copy the code below : OutFile=ships.lvz File=Ship1.bmp 2. Save file as anything.ini (e.g. name.ini) 3. Make sure that Ship1.bmp is in the same folder as name.ini 4. Open up a program called BuildLevel (download from lvztoolkit) 5. Select the file "Name.ini" and press ok. 6. There should be a new file called "ships.lvz" created in the same folder as name.ini and ship1.bmp 7. Move that file to your zone folder 8. In your arena or zone .ini settings file, add "ships.lvz" to the misc section [Misc], so it looks like [Misc] (...) LevelFiles=ships.lvz I've also attached the .lvz file below for reference (feel free to use Debuildlevel to understand how it works). ships.lvz

In case you failed to read, it had nothing to do with any international law concerning torture, it was about a Manual created for Canadian diplomats, which list all the countries in which torture may happen if imprisoned. It's really just the United States' laws that are trailing behind, not the fact that the US is a supposed pioneer in securing human rights: Related article If the US was such a 'trailblazer in securing human rights', then things such as racism, slavery, death penalty. and the American Civil War should have never existed in the first place. It also shouldn't have taken international pressure to make the US join the UN (whose headquarters were purposely chosen to be situated in New York). You can praise the system all you want, but all humans should be allowed fair trial (reference to the Canadians : Khadr, and Maher Arar). Guantanamo Bay wasn't the only place listed as a reason why the US was stated as a country where prisoners risk torture, but was the main focus. The do!@#$%^&*ent didn't specify how torture was defined, but things such as 'forced nudity, isolation, sleep deprivation, water boarding...' were !@#$%^&*ociated to the US'. Canada (asides Stephen Harper) isn't the only one criticizing the US, but other countries have as well (although not as direct). MSNBC reports : 3pTJnIXlFgkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pTJnIXlFgk

There's your problem, it should be : OutFile=ships.lvz File=Ship1.bmp Put that into Notepad, save it as "Name.ini". Then you'll need the BuildLevel program and tell it to build your lvz (make sure that your file called 'Ship1.bmp' is located in the same folder as Name.ini). Then add it into your settings, under [Misc] Levelfiles=ships.lvz You don't need to rename your file as a .bm2 (it's just a coverup for a bitmap file)

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas...ref=mpstoryview This isn't so much about Canada or Khadr, it's about torture in the United States. More specifically (although by far not limited to), Guantanamo Bay. Although it's not something that most of us reject as a fact, we just tend to completely avoid mentioning Guantanamo Bay. So when the US Amb!@#$%^&*ador says "the U.S. (...) does not condone torture" (but they don't authorize it either), it raises questions. By this vague response, I can assume that if torture is just done without any form of approval, disaproval, or general concensus, it remains ok and justifiable? Same goes for Israel; just because the supreme courts condone torture, does it mean that it doesn't happen anyways?

Nah, peak hours are more unreliable than non-peak hours. The first was probably taken sometime at night (who knows), the second was taken in the afternoon EST.

Well, how long have you had the S2C packetloss? It could be a short time, it could be a long time. It depends how motivated they are to get it fixed really (which is why complaining can help add pressure).

You have to place it into your Continuum folder; then select the file 'Logmaker', select your profiles and click begin.

June 2006 (or before) : January 18, 2008 : The drops per year aren't significant, but there is a population decline, if you compare the last 5 year trend. Nowadays, even TW's population can fall under the 300's, whereas 2 years ago it would rarely break under 350. Rather than calling it 'SubSpace is dying', it's more that 'SubSpace's population is on a decline'. 2 years ago there were 30+ zones which could break at least 2+ population, there are less than 25 now. It's only to be expected however. With a game about 10 years old, that's not been significantly updated and geared towards the players for over 4 years, it's inevitable that the population will drop. It'll be a few more years before the decline of players becomes more noticeable (probably 2012, because that's when they say we'll all die anyways). But there won't be another major cycle of incoming players; it's like we're still expecting the aftershock of the baby boomers, but it never did happen.

I totally failed and managed second place; I don't understand how points work <.<

Well, the No Pants train event is nothing compared to the "Yamanote Halloween (gaijin) Train"... Which is basically a time where a whole bunch of westerners (and few Japanese) dress up for Halloween, drink, sing, cause chaos, and rampage the line and run around at every train station just to go back in the train. It's kinda... unique. q_YS0fp0TYYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_YS0fp0TYY Although the video doesn't show everything, it always ends up in a confrontation with the security/cops. And to Japan, this is quite a radical event compared to their very monotonous lifestyle.

You're missing the point BG, SSC rarely accepted any new zones in the past, even highly notable ones. SSZ became popular even without this supposable 'better safe than sorry' ideology you mention; and it took how long for any of its zones to be allowed an SSC slot? True, people don't come in the game saying 'SSC, corruption, blah blah, pff. I quit'; but they come in to play. Even after a few years you'd think some things would have changed, but not really. There's a lack of diversity, people tend to be nomadic, and change their tastes after a while. New Zones can add punch; but no zone was accepted during SubSpace's peek population, and now new zones don't have any chance because of a lack of population.

Huzzah, welcome back!