Dr Brain

Because I'm lazy and forgetful.

It was made to save energy. The ?away thing was an unanticipated bonus.

The problem isn't with summoner, it's that you can't see the guy's name long enough to report him and get him fined/banned. It seems to me like if he does this more than a few times, he'll get caught. I recommend turning on ?leave (and ?enter while you're at it) so you can see who leaves at the same time this is happening.

It shows you attached to the guy, if the guy does it to more than one ship, chances are high that someone sees it and reports it to a mod. This is like asking for a team kill notifier: it's a waste of already limited dev time. Can you imagine the kind of message spam this change would generate? A message for every time you get summoned? Team messages would get completely drowned.

There are no nightwasps. Haven't been nightwasps for years.

I'm torn on the pub/priv thing. I think we'll have to figure something very hyperspacey out.

I seem to recall a 15 second limit. If you stay in too long, warp out, warp in, or otherwise misbehave, it kills you.

How is what mas suggested diffferent from what we have now?

Technically, mods aren't there to help. They're there to enforce rules. I said you were one of two people that have lost significant amounts of money. People lose $500 to $1000 all the time when the server dies unexpectedly. You seem to be the only idiot moving huge amounts of money in and out of items all day long. Because we don't want to kill the database with money updates, we space it out. Nothing will ever realistically cure the small problems. Big ones we can work on, but there are other high priority bugs.

I'm !@#$%^&*uming you're talking about the font in the top right corner. If you only want to move it down (not left or right), try adding some padding to the very top of a copy of the energy font's image and putting the copy into a lvz.

The fact that you've been the user behind three of the four complains in the past several years makes me think that you're just an idiot and can't count your own money. Lets face it, no one else is having problems on the scale that you are.

I just checked the to-do list, and there's nothing on there that couldn't support the current system in a subarena. What you're talking about is a complete change of the entire system with no going back. If you can find a logical superset of both, I might be willing to support the changes. Even now, we can support all the items that were in the old area bot era with the minor exception of ?buy message , which could be emulated in a heartbeat.

11-27-2007 Added PD to Levi and Weasel

The problem with all of your suggested system changes is that you can't support the current system in parallel with the new system.

Dear zephoid, I was married almost 4 months ago, and started working toward my Masters degree in Electrical Engineering at the beginning of September, along with a research job to pay for the costs !@#$%^&*ociated with said degree. Quite simply, I've had very little time left over for Hyperspace. It looks like my workload will be a bit lighter next semester, but as always, I make no promises about zone progress. While I could make all the changes proposed in this thread, I've always felt that changing settings without playing for an hour or two beforehand is a bad idea. Yes, many of the ships aren't properly balanced, but you'll simply have to trust me that they won't always be like that. Dr Brain

Ideally, Quigybobo is collecting bases. I don't know how he wants to collect them though.

Sounds like a local /?kick ban. Maybe a mod will post informing you of why. Chances are that it won't last for long. Things longer than a day will be put into BanG instead.

No, usually transfer rates and latency are not correlated (once you get above the basic transmission threshold, I mean).

Why do you say taking flags through TW is illegal? I left it off the explosion stuff so that it COULD be legal.

Great thing about virtual money is it doesn't cost anything for a zone admin, unlike booze.

I've already given out a few versions of my core. There's a thread here with source: http://forums.minegoboom.com/viewtopic.php?t=7409 "used and shared by everyone"? Lets face it, that applies to nothing.

I was being sarcastic. We used to offer base compe!@#$%^&*ions with no reward. We got one submission, and it looked like the guy had spent 5 minutes on it while drunk. Then we tried a reward system, and we got about 20 submissions with about 2-3 decent ones. Yeah, the drunk probably cared more about the zone. In maps, however, it's the results that count.

The freq manager needs to be rewritten to be better at balancing teams, *but* that won't happen soon. Mods do their best to keep the teams even, but they're only human.

Players should play the zone for free. We shouldn't pay them anything at all.

Hyperspace core modules, obviously.