Dr Brain

I hope Hyperspace would kick someone lagging like that before they'd ever get to ?lag it.

I think he means you can't have a bot. The bot blacklists is like a restraining order. We don't go around checking it for every bot all the time, but if someone tips us off to a bot, or we see it pushing the boundaries, it gives us a clear reason to kick it off without thinking further.

yeah, #3 is where you're getting the large ping variation from. I don't know what's up with the loss column for #2. I'd speculate that the server has some sort of filtering to ensure that it can't get pinged repeatedly.

Presumably it was classified as an emitter because of balance reasons. Need to have enough variety in each of the categories.

It's human nature to give the first few ships more attention than the later ships. Meaning people will generally know how to utilize the Warbird the best.

Closed due to infestation.

We've discussed doing something like this before, and it certainly has merit. The only issue is rewriting the flag module, which no one has had time to do. Once that's done, it's just a matter of balancing everything.

We don't have any issue with you posting your opinion. Arnk is just blunt (if you read carefully he didn't say anything against you, instead just stated a fact that solutions are hard).

When have I ever given the players the illusion that I care about the general population? I care about the zone, and if they like the gameplay then they're welcome to stay... That's always the way I've felt.

Just because the current population has been bred to like a certain type of gameplay doesn't mean we can't change the style and breed the population for something else.

The point is simply to express frustration, which I, at least, understand.

Just because your computer makes ships fly in a smooth path instead of having them jump around doesn't mean it's a bug. You also misunderstand how the game works (your brain has a bug). The server doesn't know anything about when your bomb explodes. If your bomb explodes on your screen, it doesn't mean that your bomb exploded on everyone's screen. It only means that *your* computer thinks it hit something. People may still die to your bomb if *their* computer didn't think it hit something.

We moved away from the old system because it had problems. Yes, the new system has problems too, but that doesn't mean the old system has any less problems than it did before. The reason we moved away from the old system was simple: I didn't want long games. I wanted players to be able to play for 30 minutes at a time, and be able to see the conclusion of a flag game during that time. I haven't fixed the "ragequit" because I haven't had *any* time. I also haven't had any time to coordinate with Arnk or D1, so I don't know if they've given any thought to it. Fixing it isn't a simple proposition, either, since there are many ways that a quick fix could be exploited, either by quick cash (obviously bad) or by making the rewards greater for milking the flag victory (avoiding milking was the whole point of removing the jackpot).

It's like saying he's only going to believe in things that are green. That's SeVeR's decision, but he shouldn't expect the rest of us to bow before his superior intellect.

Logic itself proves that logic is not enough. That's all I was getting at. Only believing provable things isn't enough.

In a sufficiently complex system, there are truths that cannot be proved. Conversely, in a sufficiently complex system if all truths can be proved then there are things that are not true that can be proved. This is the incompleteness theorem, in a (very small) nutshell.

plz grant yourself HS$500 Next one: Name this airline South African. The fact that it's practically their flag helps.

Austrian airlines

If you can hook into the SSC database and start transferring authentication information, then I'd switch.

Those 20% that know how to bypass the blocking system will still make the entire blocking system worthless. Don't put dumb restrictions in that only effect people that play by the rules. I'm talking about the alias database that makes sense to have an objection to, yes. I don't mind host level alias databases, since a player can choose to not play on those servers, but I really don't think that a biller level one is a good idea.

Bad idea. It'd be so easy to get around that it would only effect players that aren't trying to abuse it. I'd also like to reiterate my objection to a biller-wide alias database.

The whole thing is making fun of you.

I don't know exactly where people got confused, but we're not taking suggestions for items. If you think there's a niche that needs to be filled, talk about the niche and NOT about how to fill it (since we've got a lot more experience at designing the items). And don't talk about it in the thread that's discussing item names, for God's sake. Make a new thread.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm

I've always thought that race is silly too. But maybe that's because I'm not any good at it, either.