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Name : Low Orbit Ion Cannon or Cobalt Mk1 Price : 75k Ships : Same as Cobalt Mk2 Fires a deadly beam of lazorz upon player death. The laz0rz will penatrate all walls and destroys ships in its way. So something like Good illustration of what happens. Sorry was rushing. Contact me in game on nn if you have any questions NO WAIT I'M BANNED

Banned from SSC again, population -1.

Served.

Ahmad~> can you teach me how to write a bot Spidernl> what language do you know? Ahmad~> i have notepad++..

I suspect Starlight as the culprit. I used it in one ASSS zone, not sure which, but there was Arnk Dylie and fiends/friends. Could have been HZ, but def not HS. Someone told me that Starlight had bad encryption or something, and that it was sending notification messages.

It is easy to spoof, but one could write a web script to check if the user is using a proxy. The other option right now- Find a dev willing to create a referral downloads page on SSGN, and copy some sauce from the internet to check for proxy use. But wait, a unique download does not translate into +1 population. So there still has to be something in the game to check.

True, this is also quite a problem. But, there really is no perfect referral system; you can just use a proxy to get by online site referral (Swagbucks and Lockerz are good examples). Heh, I'm sure that not all zones will adopt this, but the more the better. Prizing EG - EGCurrency or prizes, such as 500bty + Prox. TW - Not really sure what they do in TW. HS - Hyperspace dollars and experience. Chaos - I think there is an experience system, not quite sure though. True; finding someone to put the commitment and effort into this will be hard. If having SSC Op privileges isn't required, then that would be one less hurdle to cross. Good point, please go into details. Thanks for all your feedback, Tetris-

A good marketing technique, awarding referrers has helped many websites and games proliferate. I think that it will also bring back a zone's population. Yes, it will fill it with newbies, but everyone was once a newbie. Here's my proposal (you are free to improve/change any part you wish): Preparation 1. Create a bot (something like Bot-SS-Referral) that will give prizes for each unique IP you refer. The IP has to fulfill the following requirements: a. Never played Continuum b. (Can't think of anything else) 2. Grant the bot SSC OP access. Yes, I know this will be hard, but without it it cannot check unique IP's. I think the ops can help with this. Operation For each person you "refer", you need to tell them to type :Bot-SS-Referral:!referred when they enter the zone. Then the bot will check if you are being truthful and not a lying bastard, and give a prize/award to the person who referred them. We will be using Wormhole Surfer and cooldude12321 as an example: WHS> check out this game called continuum, it's like online asteroids. you should enter zonename and play, it is the best zone there. cooldude12321> wats a zone WHS> it's like a gaming server. cooldude12321> cool ill check out teh zone WHS> oh, and please type :Bot-SS-Referral:!referred Wormhole Surfer when you get in. cooldude12321> aight ill do tht And then, the referrer should help out the newbie with the basic controls and stuff, so he won't quit after 30 minutes of death. Your obligation as a referrer is high, that's why you are getting prizes/awards for this. The two main problems right now are: 1. Getting someone to code the bot. A great honor. 2. Getting someone to make the OP a bot. I know this will be hard, but I hope it will revive SS's population. Feel free to criticize constructively. Tetris-

Yeah, I un-smoothed it a little now. Yep.

Subtle changes- http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/9581/terr23.png

Some slight improvements- I smoothed it out and decreased the cockpit. http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/4346/terrg.png

My terr still needs work. The underside is so ugly. http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/1773/terr.png

Oh that's strange, I don't see wahl's wingdings. I put fixed-width spaces. Special chars. ⊻ < The almighty Xor. ⃔ < the epic combine.

Oh that's strange, I don't see wahl's wingdings. I put fixed-width spaces. Special chars. ⊻ < The almighty Xor.