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You will find that almost all servers will not allow earlier clients to play. IIRC they can enter spec though as can subspace clients if the player is given access to do so.

its only available to donors, you need to pay $1000 to get it.

This looks absolutely fantastic. Really hope to have a go with this at some point soon

the game is not dead yet. People have been saying that the end is near for years. I wouldn't be surprised if this game, albeit smaller then it is now, celebrates 20 years...

Looks like sideloading has been made possible for WinRT http://www.xda-developers.com/windows_phone/rt-jailbreak-tool-lets-users-install-non-microsoft-executables-on-windows-rt/ anyone else wonder if this would be a good market for the game if it can be made to run on ARM?

Welcome to to the forums Tun. I am moving this to tech support

Do you guys have to derail every thread you see? CLOSED!

Welcome back. Whats your in game name, home zone etc?

Happy Christmas/Newtonmas/Pastover/Whatever to all, hope you are all eating and drinking too much to celebrate.

nicely done. could you make it into a PDF for easy viewing? The thing that gets me is the referencing of the figures. As you haven't made it continuous prose and split the text with the relevant figure it seems to take up space and add bulk to the guide. getting rid of the figure references will simplify it a bit. Is this a requirement for the assignment? (in which case keep it!)

This is true, I was meerly speaking about a smooth and quick transition. Ultimatly people will play the best client and/or zones politics or not.

Shutting down zones wont be required, getting support of community heads and zone owners to advertise and aid migration will be needed. It can be made to happen, especially if zone owners and ops are offered roles in the new game. However politics could be a road block. There are always those who want to cling to their positions or force their way into a position of power. Nevertheless IF the new client begins to draw enough people over, the flood will eventually be unstoppable. I would like to hope that it can be done smoothly as a united community, but only time will tell.

ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS keep backups of last good versions of files. Messing with the settings for instance can cause a zone to crash, or even prevent it starting and often pinning the exact commit down is a pain! do things bit by bit and always have backups to hand and you wont bang your head into the screen too much.

I am personally never a fan of a game that is free to play but a paid power-up means that player gets an instant advantage that is far and above that of anything that can be attained with hours of dedicated play. Continuum is run entirely on the generosity of its community in terms of time to admin/maintain/dev the game and pay for servers and bandwidth, this is why the game is still going after all these years. I think having some sort of reward for people that do good for the community could be a nice touch. Nothing like a hideously overpowered weapon or ability, but a bit of unique bling for your ship or name-tag or something else of that nature.