Dr Brain

I though the whole idea of having client side modules was a very bad one, and sort of stopped paying attention to discretion. It's a huge security risk, after all. I don't think limiting it to scripts would be sufficient, either. Better to extend the protocol to allow more client<->server interaction and make it server side. That fundamental design decision has caused me to pretty much ignore discretion. In response to your C++ notion: All of the truely horrible code I've seen has been written in C++, and I've never seen and *good* code written in C++. I'm sure writing good code in C++ is possible, but it's an uphill battle the whole way. I used to think that having ASSS written in C rather than C++ was a mistake (as I'm a big OO fan), but the more I looked around, the more I realized that objectified C was the correct decision.

I concur with your assessment. Stagnation is the enemy.

ZOMG BACK UP

DC may stand for direct current, but its meaning has changed over the years. DC doesn't *mean* direct current any more. It means low frequency portion or no frequency content, depending on the usage. OK stands for all clear, yet when someone says "OK, clear" you wouldn't challenge them on it. After all, an active circuit can easily draw an AC current from a DC voltage supply (class A amplifiers are a simple example). If you took the literal interpretation, this would be nonsensical. Not at all. You're thinking of a current limited voltage source, which is a protection feature. A current source provides a constant current independent of the load. Voltage sources provide a constant voltage independent of the load.

DC current is a bad example, as DC means average or low frequency, making the phrase DC current correct in most instances. NIC Card or ATM Machine would be better examples.

Me too. "Use Runga-Cutta"

People who call ASSS "as3" just show that they don't know anything. They are to be ignored or ridiculed: your choice.

They'll never replace Continuum without player run servers. Cosmic Rift didn't, and any Rapid Share clone won't.

Star Trek was easily the best movie I've seen since the Dark Knight, and better than that too.

Don't forget that some people are talking about high school classes and some are talking about college classes.

If we had enough time to hack together a fix, we'd probably have enough time to fix it properly.

Eh? I don't recall thinking that, much less discussing that with anyone.

I have a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering (not to be confused with Computer Science). Hopefully I'll have my Master of Science in Electrical Engineering soon. I'm defending my thesis tomorrow. My only advice is to pick a degree path that you love. Picking a degree because it pays well won't help when things get tough (and unless you're pursuing some wishy-washy degree, they WILL get tough).

I'll be serious and tell you why they're disabled: Runwinners get an insane amount of money. It's as if they're a single man pub playing against a team of 19 players.

You're not helping your case. I was complaining about monopolies, after all. If you can't switch, then of course you're going to get rotten service. They have no incentive to treat you well or give you a good price, since you're going to pay either way. Telecom monopolies are just as bad as the DMV. High barriers to entry = few companies & bad service.

Bomb damage doesn't change per bomb level. The blast radius is all that changes. So a direct hit will do almost the same damage on each bomb (minus the ship radius effects). The difference will be in what an indirect hit does. This is true for all subspace zones.

If I have trouble with a business, I don't go back and instead go to their competition. Tends to make businesses pretty friendly.

DMV is a prime example of how much the government can screw up something simple. It'll be great when everything is government run, eh?

If they're lagging, or you're lagging, that can happen. It's especially prone when you're warping next to them, rather than attaching (as when you're attaching to a lanc). It happens because the server tells your ship to warp to the last location they had for the player.

I think it's the height of arrogance to think that you (replying to the "we'd", not you personally) have enough control to hand over the game. That should have been the very first email: "We can't speak for anyone else" P.S. Ace: my post was saying that no one person has control over this game, I have no idea how you got "I'm God" out of it. And if you were replying to Arnk's post, why did you attack me personally?

You guys are also assuming that it's difficult to make a clone. Truely, it's not. Hire a decent programmer full time and you can have a knock-off game functioning in 6 months. The problem we've got as a "community" is that our programmers don't work full time. In many ways, Rapidshare would be better off making a subspace clone and trying to attract the current community, rather than working with the current software.

Your posts are very unclear. You say you weren't selling the ships, but later contradict yourself by saying you were selling them.

There is no "our" or "us". We're a diverse community that has no central governing body (SSC can do what it wants, but zones are free to leave at any time). No decision can be made by the SSC, or by PriitK, or by Polix, or by anyone, that will mean *anything*. End of story. If they want to recreate SS, or assimilate it, they'll need to keep the community aspect of player created content, or they'll have a lame 1995 space shooter game.

The sever has never lost ships that weren't sold with ?sell (the warbird part is believable since you were ?selling it). Several people have said this happened to them over the years, but in every case it has been human error (such as "forgetting" that they sold their ships three weeks previously) or their little brother logging into their account and making a quick buck.

Well, if you'd prefer to play with people lagging 48 seconds, be my guest. Just ?find Polix to see where he hangs out.