Dr Brain

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Zone devs will never look at undoing a year of work. Make your poll, but don't expect me to pay any attention to whiners.

If you guys can't stay on topic, then I'm going to delete your posts.

Cage and poacher box have been fixed. Added a cheap one called sparse brick that only bricks every other tile.

The above should be a complete list of tasks I'm working on for the zone. If your idea isn't on here, it means I'm not currently considering it. If you think I should be, post a link to the dev topic that mentions it.

I spent a few minutes with DCME and didn't see any other way to create regions. May want to think of making it more visible (since I don't think I'm an unusual user), but I guess if that works I can't complain too much. Yeah, that sounds about right, though you'd also want to be able to have combinations of numeric and text. Smong's post is here: http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=11053 It's linked to from the todo list under elvl.

Items with groundwork already laid Holy brick Block brick (not practical, but when has that ever stopped us from making an item?) Flashbangs Super & shields? Antiwarp on lanc, if it's not already. Thor storms Items needing additional functionality Score reset item Omega 13 Turrets placeable by engineers (weasels?). Could have lots of fun stuff, like repel turret, antiwarp turret, or x-radar turret when integrated with outgoing packet rewriter. These turrets need to have a damage system (talk to smong?) portal turret? Anti brick warp method (either warp back, or brick holes). Possibly an item? Decoy burst ASSS core changes Create a function akin to putmap to upload lvzs. (?putlvz?) Incoming/Outgoing packet rewrite ability. Would allow: undetectable cloak (or cloak grades), energy scanning countermeasures, team-level x-radar. Superarenas. Most awesome unimplemented idea in ASSS. True Stargate and B5 are only the tip of the iceberg. Flag core & superarena integration research. Test what can be done to a contiuum client as far as lying about flag positions. HSCore changes Test arena? Fix spawner for 0.40. May already have completed this and forgotten. Team module needs rewriting to work with subarenas and to fix public/private size bugs. Ship hull purchases may not be flexible for subarenas. Provide an option for non-buyable hulls to have items (reuse initial items setting?). Talk to d1 about his points module and possibly merge the modules. Sort ?shipstatus's output (and -v too) for more consistent viewing. ?shipinfo needs more data. This is annoying to code. Variable prices on items. Needs to be done right the first time, or could send the zone into economic chaos. Ship "account" to move hulls between squaddies. This may be a bad idea. Item accounts too? At least local ones. Maybe move things onto the spec hull? That may actually solve a lot of other sharing problems to have a global hull. Cannot sell flag for items/ships in the database for granted things. Weight. Did I already add this? Spawner additions needed for Cerium's item system. Stipend module Test spawner for support of built-in continuum spawning modes (for subarenas) HS non-core modules Interdiction module. Integrate with hs_warp for interdiction removal information? Could get destination info too for more refined tracking. Sector map module. Integrate with region chunks holding lvz data. Fine module for more consistent fining of evildoers. Swear to **** and auto fine integration. Need to make sure that the first few fines are $0. Better make sure mods know to punish for cir!@#$%^&*vention. Flag modules. FR, !@#$%^&*ult, ctf Antideath respawn lvz to prevent surprise "cloak" PD needs a better firing algorithm. Lock flag team from new players during flag vic conditions. Attach changes Attach item for greater control over attach conditions. May need to warp players back if they don't have access... Or disable attaching via F7 entirely. Summoner and Infiltrator need to be reworked to allow attaching to non-lancs. Integrate with "attach item" idea. Attach conditions are virtually unchecked. Could be a lot of problems lurking there. Research into how continuum interprets attach packets. Could be cool things lurking there. Fix pointdefense attach system. It shouldn't interfere with attaching to other ships. Anti-attach region code (for tw hub type situations) Balancing Flag game rewards kinda suck. Zone grapics Interdimensional needs to be reimaged for better framerate and compression. Hypertunnels need a moving cloud background, with multiple layers for neat flythrough. Hopefully mostly black so the gate graphics look decent. Will be tricky to get it to wrap properly. Jump graphics have a noticeable edge to them. Should be reimaged to remove that. New Tileset Antideath cross Subarenas Casino Event subarenas Redo foosball items and settings Turf test Staff Redo mod access levels Provide better support for mod aliasing Website talk to steig about the domain Chatnut (does polix still want a copy for ssforum?) References http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=14643 Read this topic, as it seems to have a lot of nifties: http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=13559 Variable prices link: http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=15283 http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=16900 http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=15627 may have points still relevant http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=16932 (maybe) Ceriums item system needs reevaluating: http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=17023 Read http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=15312 more carefully. There may be ideas worth implementing. http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=17439 (balancing issues, mostly) look into overcharger: http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=13426 Notes: Energy can be seen after respawn for short period of time. Bugs Sparse brick! Zone crashes

Hi, I'm a fairly new DCME user, and I like what I see, but there are two major things stopping me from adopting it, and both relate to eLVL stuff. The first is that drawing regions is very !@#$%^&*bersome. Selecting a region, going into the region dialog, then choosing create region from selection is a pain. I don't see an easy way to modify the selection later on, either (I may have missed it). A better (IMO) approach would be to have the user able to create a region, and then have the region show up in the tileset dialog. One could then use all the existing paint tools with the region. Maybe a "region mode" would make it easier to coexist with tiles. My second "gripe" isn't really a gripe, but a feature request. Have a way to specify region settings that are user specified. So in addition to the no flags and base settings that are already supported, add a way for me to specify a new region chunk and to be able to add data to it. It doesn't have to be glamorous, but it should exist. EDIT: Smong had a post on the second part, but I don't think anyone else really understood what he was talking about.

You misbehaved and made me remove the last one, so no. You're lucky to even get one strike with banfrees in Hyperspace.

Zone saves everything at *least* every 5 minutes. If you lost something in that short a period of time, you can just earn it back.

Moving back to one time use items for things like thors is a distinct possibility, but a lot of other things have priority over redoing items.

Moved to zone development, but my only comment is: You see them flagging all the time because they're playing all the time. That, more than anything else is why they're rich.

Thor level is only used for instant kills such as and I have no intention of providing armor for it.

None of it is C++. It's almost entirely C and a few bits of python.

Banned for swearing on the forums. Have a nice life.

We've already got a new flagging module in the works that would solve these problems and a few more. Oh, and the ASSS flag core doesn't quite work like that. You can take a look at the ASSS source if you're curious.

I'm the most active of the coding devs at the moment, as sad as that is. So having other people work on things for me to review isn't going to help.

Though most vets will disagree with you (as you've stated), I agree and think exp should be done a little differently. Of course these days I don't even have enough time to fix bugs let alone improve the zone, at least it's on my mind.

What happened? D1st0rt found out engineering isn't as easy as it used to be. That and no one has tried to fill in for him.

Some people need to read this. You know who you are.

I did that on purpose when I rewrote the gate module.

What is there to reply about?

This is a "bug" with the way continuum 0.40 handles ?status items after a settings packet. It was slightly different in 0.39, and the difference is causing this bug. I know about it, but I haven't had time to implement a fix (as it's kind of a pain to redo). EDIT: You'll have the real effects of retro after you've died. Directly after you buy it you've got what I like to call the "demo version" of retro.

Can't change that per ship.

I think you may be right. Though on the other hand, I believe the influx of spiders is due to the fact that higher level ships aren't cost effective yet. But I'll see what I can do about the spamming issue.

I think you misread my post. Nothing has changed. Nothing can be changed.