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this happens from time to time. make a post on forums.trenchwars.net if nobody helps u here.

So basically this is what you are suggesting: Invest into something, such as a business. Once business is popular, advertise SubSpace via that. something like that

hey cool now i know the tw staff chat

Does anyone here have the time/money to turn into a person on youtube that reviews games? We could literally have a team here set up to reviewing games, gain a ton of subscribers, then do a huge special on continuum. Or, if we know of any big youtube game reviewers, we could band together and beg him/her to do a special review on SS? Just a thought after reading polix's post.

Why not open your project - perhaps there are some folks here who can take a peek and suggest / help you ?

yeah the decal program for AC reads the memory from the game client and reads the packets. If nobody's down to make it, oh well. Thought I'd throw it out there.

http://forums.ssgn.net/topic/25802-menuresdll-issue/

I wasn't asking someone to write it for me. It's just something I proposed what would be a good idea, and it is, and if anyone wants to take on the responsibility of making it then that would be a great thing for the game. That's all. No need to jump down my throat. And samapico, it doesn't need to be built in to the game client. The decal I use for AC is a completely different program that I run on my computer. I can play with or without it enabled. Without it loaded, I don't get any of the programs associated with it. It's not a part of the game, it's an external application. http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/8145/decall.png

I apologize, my language was vulgar. however I still won't delete that.

1) I never said I was going to write it. I said "If this ever gets programmed," etc. 2) Doesn't need to be implemented into the game client at all. It's a third-party program. The screenshot you see, is a program running over the game client. It was not made by the Asheron's Call dev-team. It was made by some random jo schmoe, and is used by 99% of the game's community for various things. AC (Turbine) doesn't provide any support for it. 3) Stop being a pretentious dick face.

Continuum Decal Platform (CDP) - A third-party program that lifts many of the game client’s limitations. This program is a platform for several potentials that would enable developers to program what are called “plug-ins,” or programs that are loaded and ran by the CDP. These plug-ins (decals) can perform pre-determined actions, run scripts, read for specific events, track and record specific events, and display additional information on your screen, over the game-client, while playing in real-time. A “decal” for the game. The CDP, if programmed, would provide a completely new alternative to the development for this game, as well as how you play it. The decals can be used by players across all the zones, since they are ran by the user themselves. Whether you want to make an entire game event or zone have the players required to use a specific decal for the game or not, there are many unique ideas that come to mind right off the bat, for both sides. Here are only a few that pop into mind right away: 1. A Graphical HUD that displays your kill history, no matter what arena or zone you’re in. It loads different profiles and kill histories based on which zone or arena you’re in. Examples below. 1a. Killstats (Location / stats can be added, removed, and moved via the decal’s pre-defined hotkeys) Zone / Arena: EG - Pub1 Kills: 123456 Killed most: Name Deaths: 123456 Killed by most: Name Last killed by: Name Your Highest Bounty: Last kill: Name Kills per hour (local)*: Deaths per hour (local): Kills per hour (overall)**: Deaths per hour (overall): Points per hour: Total Points Earned: Average Bounty: * , ** - Differentiates between the arena you’re in, and your overall kills per hour ratio throughout the entire zone. 1b. Hunt Say farewell to the old-fashioned bot-hosted games of “Hunt,” where you are given a player you must find and kill, by a bot. Enter an arena with this plug-in loaded, and you can have your own personal “Hunt” game, wherein a name is displayed on the player’s screen telling them their next victim. When said player is in proximity of the hunter, the program sends a private message to that player, “I’m hunting you on Decal Hunt!”. You then gain a score for each kill, and can play as much as you want. Different stats can be tracked, like Points per Hour, Points per Session, total prey kills, total kills by prey, etc. Each of these are saved for each arena + zone they’re in (so as to prevent cheating). Stats can then be shared and compared to other players throughout the entire game, not just zone-specific. You can also play Hunt with a friend or even as a squad event. Enter a pub arena or elim match, and play hunt. Person with the highest amount of points, wins! ---- A plug-in is not only useful to the players, but it can also benefit bots & developers as well! A bot can be programmed to read things a plug-in might be displaying, or if an event happens and the plug-in is programmed to respond to it, the bot can also interact with it. Plug-ins can also be used to completely replace some bot functions, such as displaying, calling, and loading LVZ’s, which will also reduce bandwidth for servers. Some unique ideas for interaction between user, game-client, and decal has also popped into mind, and that’s by using commands like “?display top 5” which would graphically display the top 5 players in an arena, based on statistics. Another idea is: “?PMLog,” which would graphically display a private message log between a list of players. Upon using the command, you’d be prompted with a list on your screen such as: 1. TheJackRipper 2. Reaping Death 3. Foregoing Disaster 4. Dr. Brain 5. Smeagle 6. A Space Pilot Use ?PML <#> or ?PML to recall a specific log. Player> ?PML 4 [displays all the private messages exchanged between Dr. Brain and Player, ever. (scrollable)] The logs can also be accessed offline via the C:\CDP\PMLogs\Logs\Player’s Name.txt file that the decal saves to your hard drive. ---- Let’s say some crazy person decides to make a zone that requires its players to use the CDP for everything (otherwise the zone will seem senseless since those not using it, won’t see anything happening on screen). Let’s say your visions for the zone are very graphic intensive. A decal for CDP can, based on certain actions in the game, react. Say you’re designated a mission through the decal plug-in. The plug-in can show arrows, provide additional overlay information etc. all very easily, based on what you’re doing. If you need to go to an area on the map but don’t know the way, the arrows can point the way - like a guidance system. The plug-in can also call for large files to show on the screen, so there is less loading time in the game, and a much smaller download for the zone itself, when first entering the zone. A big scoreboard, for instance, can be used based on the zone or arena’s gameplay. The scoreboard can even update live, on the spot! ---- It’s also possible someone can write a plug-in that will load up different in-game radio links in your media player, automatically! A major problem many hosts face is the fact that there are so many different radio stations around. Not only that, but some people just like to listen to their own music. Well, if someone were to write a plug-in (that also installs VLC lite) the plugin can literally stream at the type of a command! See below: Radio Host> Listen to t3h uber radi0 stashun! http://uber.radio.com:8502 Listener> ?radio http://uber.radio.com:8502 The plug-in then opens up VLC.exe and streams from the link. Or, the player can even save them to an easy access list. Listener> ?radiosave http://uber.radio.com:8502 “Uber Radio” Listener> ?radiosave http://ssgn.radio.com:8080 “SSGN Radio” Listener> ?radio [displays a graphical, numbered list of pre-saved ss radio stations] 1. Uber Radio 2. SSGN Radio Player> ?radioplay 2 The plug-in then opens up VLC.exe and streams the SSGN radio station Honestly, the boundaries are lifted. The programming bar has also been raised though.. that’s a downfall. I hope someone takes interest in this though, and makes it. Could do a lot for this game.. a lot more than what I just barfed onto these forums. I got this idea from another game called Asheron's Call. Here's a screenshot of a plugin (called v-tank, for the Decal program for AC), in-action, that I took right as I posted this. There are a ton of plug-ins that do various things. The one I'm running, literally plays my character for me (and is not against the rules, as long as I'm at the keyboard watching it). Decal is a third-party program. http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/4377/screenshot00004qm.jpg AC Decal Info: http://decaldev.sourceforge.net/faq/ <== SOURCEFORGE AC Decal info: http://www.decaldev.com/ v-tank plugin info: http://www.virindi.net/wiki/index.php/Virindi_Tank v-tank plugin info: http://vnboards.ign.com/ac_utilities/b5432/106600406/p1

what monitor do u have update the drivers, if any could just be your monitor readjusting to the different aspect ratios

Actually, during the day at work when I'm on a smoke break, I open up ssgn.net in my phone's browser to read if there's anything new. I do this multiple times a day, just out of habit. Mainly because I don't feel like going to forums and clicking on a thousand links on my phone. And props to hallu (and you).. ss needs more people like you guys.

Well, I deleted everything possible continuum-related, restarted computer downloaded, installed opened it up, worked fine. closed program. restarted, opened it up and its working fine now. Certainly was a strange issue, considering I've done those steps before, save for deleting the registry entry. Thanks Now back to d/ling UT3

C:\Games\Continuum I've been told to avoid the programs directory because it causes permission issues (with another game I play) so I just put all my games in the C:\Games folder ok, hard deleted all the files from my computer and removed that registry entry. going to reboot and re-d/l. will post results

fyi, the uninstaller doesn't work either. it ran, said it removed continuum, but everything's still there. even the .exe runs from the directory. rofl. edit: nvm, it removed the start menu entry for continuum. but the files are still on the computer. is it possible this is a permission problem? im running windows 7 ultimate edition x64

does continuum make a root key thingy (probably not what its called, i forgot the real name lol) that I can delete and completely remove everything continuum-related from my computer to try it out?

this one http://forums.ssgn.net/files/file/6-continuum/ and i have the menures.dll in my continuum directory

http://img861.imageshack.us/img861/8291/continstall.png That's from clicking the Continuum button from the Start menu directory

try restarting your computer and opening the shortcut from ur desktop. it works fine until i restart the computer. I've also re-downloaded the install files from the banner link the other day and encountered the problem opening up the game today, which is why i came on here. I dunno what the problem is. I can open up continuum just fine by going to C:\Games\Continuum\Continuum.exe Also another strange thing, when I click on Start > All Programs > Continuum > Continuum, it acts as if it's an installation package. Look at this.. sec

Are you sure you have the correct installation file up there? When I try to use the game's shortcut from my desktop after I restart my computer I get that really old message "Failed to load dynamic link library menures.dll" http://rshl.org/foru...hp?topic=9398.0 http://rshl.org/foru...p?topic=10931.0 http://forums.minego...opic.php?t=6630

So how do we do it? If it's as simple as running a program on my computer (for free) and then playing the game, I would have no problem doing this every time I played. I would just have to make sure to not type ?chat

Oh and i found my usb!

I tried putting it in again and it didnt work. I also reset the cmos using both methods a few months ago

Yep, so it can be added as a 2nd video card you also need two 6-pin power supplementary connectors