Dr Brain

Pretty much, though Arnk unfairly gets the blame for most of thing things that were actually my fault (e.g. ammo).

Pretty much... Sorry about that, but not sorry enough to care again.

Yes they are squares. The "radius" varies by zone, but the default is 14 pixels, which would make the box 28 or 29 to a side, depending on how the math works out.

Sounds a bit like you've got a stuck button on an attached joystick.

It'd probably be worth your time to poke around in SSCE Hyperspace.

Don't forget to collect the various versions of Twister... for the complete SS 1.35 experience.

Can you use colors that colorblind people can distinguish? That'd be awesome, thanks.

I laughed at this (for the uninformed: Lone Outlaw has on multiple occasions criticized other people for "assuming" things). Then I found couldn't continue reading your insanity. If a ban is equivelent to kicking someone out of your establishment, then a netban is equivelent to kicking someone out of your entire franchise. Getting kicked out of every McDonalds or Walmart is not the same thing as murder.

Priit isn't gone, but he's very hard to get a hold of. Usually you have to go through 2 intermediaries. I don't know the right person to talk to, but someone high up in the biller netops might. Once you get the message to him, it'll take 4-8 weeks and multiple prods to get the IP actually changed in the firewall. I don't defend this, and I personally think it's unforgivable. It is, however, the reality of having one man in charge. It killed my zone for 6 weeks one time (this was many eons ago).

Everyone in this thread is lying to you. Sorry.

Yeah, after all he clearly loves the game. He pays gobs of money to keep trench wars up and running. Why wouldn't he pass on the source to some reasonably trusted person to keep the game growing? My only explanation is that there's some legal reason. There are other possible sources of this legal impediment, such as the following scenario: he really did write continuum from scratch, but he incorporated some code from Skype into it. That'd put him in an even bigger legal pickle. Not sure I buy this one, but it's at least possible.

No, it's one of the most ridiculous questions I've ever seen asked on a SS forum. Everyone is taking the opportunity to respond sarcastically. I almost did the same, but then realized it wouldn't help and took the lazy way out and ignored the question.

There are many theories about how PriitK did what he did. He was never an official VIE developer, and I doubt he ever had access to any documentation. The "official" story is that he reverse engineered the protocol and physics, and created a new client with that knowledge. My personal theory is that he hacked the new features into the old client and obfuscated most of what he'd done. Then for legal reasons claimed to have written the client from scratch. There are holes in my theory, but in my opinion it fits better than some of the others.

It's not complex, but don't confuse complex with hard. It's a large project, and completing a large project as a hobby is a monumental undertaking. I'd wager than more than 50% of the developers in this game (and the actual number is probably closer to 90%) have given it a shot at one point or another. Yet no one has actually finished one (unless you count PriitK).

Yeah, the amazing thing isn't that it's been dying, but rather that it's held on as long as it has.

Open up wireshark and see what happens.

Rogue squadron fan, eh? I was always partial to the Thrawn books myself.

How about you check the post where you actually posted it: http://www.subspace.co/topic/27184-installation-of-continuum/

English is an important skill. If no one ever tells him he's not asking properly, he'll go right on doing what he's always done. I think letting him carry on with his misconception is a disservice.

That's a statement. Where's the question?

That only applies if he were the sole copyright holder. Since the very first public release of ASSS it has had modules written by many different people. Now it's even moreso.

ASSS isn't really GPL (after all, everyone has been distributing it with closed sourced security binaries since it was first released). And hyperspace never has been GPL. The real issue with SS and me is lack of motivation. There aren't any projects in SS that are appealing to me, so I've moved on to other hobbies (e.g. laser tag). I only check this forum because it's part of my daily routine; if that were to ever change I'd effectively disappear from the community, like so many others.

I use a similar thought process for why I'm against the GPL. The GPL prevents freedom. I don't spend any of my time working on projects that use restrictive licenses like the GPL. Everything I release these days is either public domain or, more usually, BSD license.

Amen.

In my opinion having to store passwords in cleartext on the client side (or not storing passwords at all) is unacceptable.