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14240 points per kill sound good?

First, the discussion from chat (some emphasis on points that seem important-ish): Anyway, my thoughts are that if we make freqhopping illegal some people will leave (one or two at the moment but that's a big number for Deva...). That's the major concern. A drop in the sea is !@#$%^&* big if the sea is so small... Of course it cannot be denied that most people are in it for the points, even though the actual fun is in the fighting. And it does aggravate people if someone else !@#$%^&*es their points away. And there is also the issue of balanced teams... in a smaller game, freqhoppers can distory the balance badly. I'm not really sure what to do... on one hand, it can drive people away to disallow it, but on the other hand it might drive people away to allow it (less likely, though). And of course the unbalancing and all that... Hrm... perhaps we should indeed disallow it... and make the bot just record who changes freq when music is on so there are no false accusations (of course what if they do it right before the music...). Talk to me.

Well, yes... I guess 1340 points might be better?

Why? Kill values are pretty much random in Deva. Depends on how much the person greens and how many flags you hold. I see no reason to give extra credits for killing greened people or holding flags.

Since you get them from JP only, newbies don't really get the "credit whoring" feel during the actual game. Perhaps say... 250 credits per kill? Any objections/suggestions?

Well, that's not good. Perhaps encouraging people to start up a new game by prizing everyone 10k bounty or so for the first 30 minutes after a jackpot? To make it rise faster. Or some way to encourage dogfights? Or some way to just relax after a heavy flag game? Wild idea: after flag game, three boxes will randomly appear on the map one after another with 15 seconds in between. Whoever gets to one first gets 5 million credits. They time out in 3 minutes (each one).

I must admit I have very little idea what you're talking about

See the FAQ post about the "wrong password" message for more help. It has a link to a password request form you can use, as well.

I have something in planned to help out with that, but not exactly like it is right now. Oh well, time will tell

All ideas go here please As for the last one, I have no plans to include arena ownership at all, so... meh :sos:

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You can also try changing the sound quality in the Continuum options.

It has been rumored that Windows themes could cause this... try disabling them or try others.

Yes, might go away faster if you complain. However, I once had packetloss for over 3 months... so... it can be bad.

Both, hmm? Indecisive, aren't you

This should fix it: move "C:\Do!@#$%^&*ents and Settings\Sam\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player\Temp\*.*" "C:\Do!@#$%^&*ents and Settings\Alain\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player"

Well, first of all: you can't fix it. All you can do is wait until it goes away. Looks like the packetloss is coming from your ISP but also maybe some other route down the road is contributing as well. A really really really big trace might help track down the problem more specifically, but it all comes down to this: There's nothing you can do. Just wait.

Stop after 50 or run with timer? Pick one, I can do either pretty easily

Note that that bot is very very very old and might not even connect anymore. Most do!@#$%^&*entation is also a bit outdated... The best resource is the C++ MERVBot. Catid also posted some protocol (RFC-like) stuff on catid.ssihosting.com

Too bad I'll miss it, whenever it is

All ready to go

Some

Holy crapolium, that is impossible to read

Would be a lot easier to read with proper capitalization! The buzzwords were cool, but it seems awfully complex to make... good luck, I guess.

Happy Festivus!