Dr Brain

Just figured I'd let you all know that I'm leaving tomorrow for Japan, and I won't be back until the 6th of June. D1 will keep things running while I'm gone.

I made them last longer, btw.

No.

I think you're talking about the $10M items, which are meant to be insanely expensive.

It's SSForum. It always has been.

5-19-07 Changed shrap booster (17/30 to 20/25). Reduced energy usage (1000 to 500) on antimatter mines, and added a fixed delay. Added Compression Core and ESPER System to alleviate lack of Quantum on WB & Jav. Upped Icefire (STR: 5,1,-1 to 5,2,1) Added improved afterburners to overthruster (ST: +1, +3). Added improved stats (STR: 1,4,0 to 1,5,1) and afterburners (ST: +1, +2). 5-21-07 Increased brick time from 9 to 16. Lowered levi max energy from 4000 to 3500. Lowered lanc max energy from 4000 to 3000, initial from 2500 to 1500. Changed rocket speed from 7500 to 6500, thrust from 75 to 50. Changed lancaster rocket time from 5 to 3.5. 5-22-07 Changed turret base's repels to rockets. Added util items Extra Speed, Extra Thrust and Extra Rotation. Names will probably need to be changed. Implemented reduced turret speed and thrust penalties on turretbase. Fixed maxspeed issue with overthruster and retro rocket. 6-2-07 Added thrust penalty of 2 to Extra Speed utility Added speed penalty of 1 to Extra Thrust utility Reduced maxspeed and maxthrust from 1 to 0 on Maneuvering Fins (removed) Reduced maxspeed and maxthrust from 3 to 1 on Slipstream 6-9-07 Changed shrapbooster bullet delay to 36 from 23 and energy usage from 28 to 27. 6-10-07 Added ?shipinfo for basic stats on each ship. Added sysop command ?refund. Used ?refund to refund all illegal items currently present in the database. 6-10-07 Added foosball arena.

Fair and fun aren't the same thing. It's not fair, but fair would mean having every ship identical and a freq limit of 1 person. If they're killing you coming out into the lower center, move your fighting to the left or the right.

If turret base is unbalanced, then it will be fixed (or removed). You have to realize that it's hard to make an item useful for one task but worthless for another.

I especially like the part where DBE complains about how the weasel's emp is overpowered, when I didn't actually change its settings. I understand there are problems, but I can't take any of you seriously when you complain about things that haven't been changed.

Yes to legal, since he's using an unmodified version of continuum (can't cheat). Can you make your own? That's up to you and your level of skill with such matters.

There would be no point in using that base.

It's left locked because I don't see any point in having it. I figured ?reset would take care of those that need to prove they can kill under any cir!@#$%^&*stance.

Takes effort. No one wants to do it.

It's easy enough to make them show on only your screen, but that's fairly pointless. Having them display over your ship on everyone else's ship is pretty much impossible.

No one has had the time to devote to something like this.

Because every other zone in SS has elim, and if we can't put a HS spin on it, it's not worth doing.

Because those things are either hard to implement or boring.

Have any examples of previous work?

So long as it's a chatnet based bot, and doesn't spam or PM people when the enter the zone, it's fine.

For all we know, you could be your little brother trying to make trouble. It's not a solid position on which to work.

I don't agree that it should be 100%, but I can look at possibly making some of them higher.

I see no problem... It's just like a turret, but without the lanc.

No, skill = money/time, or how fast you can earn money. The actual amount depends on how much effort has been put in. It's not that hard to make kills as a newbie, and the rewards are actually a lot bigger than the difficulty warrants.

Yes, you've discovered the truth, 3vil logs in as muskrat when he hasn't shaved.

If the person you kill has significantly less exp than you do, then you get no exp reward. On the other hand, if the person has a lot more, you get more.