Dr Brain

Even so, I think it still needs work. I just don't know how to improve it.

I've been hammering aceflyer in game over this for several days. I finally got the main point of this board out of him: zone staffing issues and exploits. Lets face it people, devs know way more about the technical details of exploits and bugs than "VIPs" ever will. Until developers are let into the forum, or VIPs are taken out, HS will not be a part of it (not that anyone but ace cares). I also will not contribute further to this thread.

I wish I'd seen it.

Hyperspace Bowling League? Sign me up!

I'm sorry I haven't made myself clear here. In no way am I mad about the creation of the forum. I'm mad at the way Aceflyer has handled himself in advertising it. I'm mad at the way some sysops have been denied access and others granted access. I'm mad at the way it's closed to guest viewing. And before you guys spout out your "we can't allow everyone to read it because there might be sensitive info", you've already allowed people access that don't have any "right" to be there.

Then it should be owners or zone ban admins only. Sysops is too broad.

All I'm saying is that you guys are deciding things left and right. Make up your mind, or stop claiming to be unbiased. What's your definition of a sysop? I guarantee you've let people in that don't fit whatever definition you come up with.

Well, ace has specifically said that my sysops can't get access since they're not listed in game. I call that deciding.

Are you deciding on a case by case basis or not?

I've yet to see someone state the purpose of this forum beyond "asking questions". I asked ace what kinds of questions and his reply was "Iunno". The person most heavily advertising this forum don't even know what it'll be used for. To further compound the failure of this "forum", the sysop portion is closed to public viewing. I believe the idea behind it was to increase communication (though what kind of communication has still to be addressed). Well, guess what, having it private doesn't help. The qualifications for being a ssc sysop are virtually non-existent, so why not just let guests read it? On top of that, the admins have taken it upon themselves to decide which sysops can and cannot have access. They've denied access to current sysops, and given access to people that don't technically qualify.

What would be an example question we might have to ask the SSC members? What sort of time frame are we looking at for a response? It took them 9 weeks to approve Hyperspace's box when we got booted of SSCI. Should we have any expectation that they'll reply more quickly than that?

Lol cerium. You have to admit that it looks better than the mspaint diagrams most people draw.

I think you need to stop using jpegs. It makes it look like you colored them with a marker.

There is no ban #354. Probably got hit by mistake if you weren't doing anything.

-150 means you'll take ~20% less damage on any bomb regardless of distance. So if the bomb does 5 damage ordinarily, you'd take 4 damage. If the bomb does 500 damage normally, you'd take 400 damage. No where on solid neutronium does it say it'll protect you from bursts. If you bought it because you were frustrated at dying to bursts, then you're doomed to failure. No armor will make you invincible. If that's what you want, we can't help. Personally, I like solid neutronium on my lanc. It gives me the extra time to react to a pesky warbird or javelin that would otherwise kill me.

Ban ID #?

Boxes meaning servers. Hockey Zone and Hyperspace are on SSCE, run by BlueGoku. Powerball is on their own server and I'm not quite sure who maintains it.

I'm always willing to give someone a copy of the latest HSCore. That's usually when I update the MGB copy too. Just drop me a line any time. HZ, HS, and Powerball are all SSC enabled ASSS zones. Shouldn't be too hard to ask for a spot on their boxes.

You should use HSCore. It's lonely.

More importantly, did anyone kill you?

I'm still discussing the issue with D1st0rt. I don't think we'll roll back. If we do anything, it'll be to selectively alter accounts affected by the large bounties Unix was using. The items Sharpflame and I were abusing wouldn't change any money issues since they didn't alter our kill worth (through exp or bounty).

Nothing will ever change without a decent programmer with free time to write a new large scale biller (or someone willing to compensate him for his time). Either find one and fix the situation or shut up. If someone wants to fork over a few thousands dollars, I'll write one, even. You can babble all you want about how bad things are, and it doesn't even matter if you're right. The SSC biller is the only option.

Any other time, and I'd see a problem with this. But right now, with the biller down, it hardly matters. People are cut off from building their ships, and the mods are just trying to keep things mildly entertaining.

More importantly, I have to finish coding the thing.

Don't speak in our name.