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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.

Cheese hit the nail on the head. More specifically both projects are not the same game, rather they are inspired by subspace and continuum. The games themselves will have similar core gameplay (from what I understand) but add their own unique features, look and feel and go about very different implementation. There are actually four projects underway at the minute, all at different levels of completeness and making different rates of progress. What happens to the current community when these clients are ready for public release is indeed an interesting and important question. I suppose it will all come down to which client can offer current players and devs what they want and which can pull in new players. I think its something that will need to be discussed, but not until a new client going fully open is on the horizon.

And this thread is now so derailed its rolling down the mountain into a pit of fire... aka the lounge!

I wont lock this, if you want to turn it into a flame fest you can have fun with that in the lounge. Keep it on-topic here or let the thread die.

Thing is this is only true for the x86 based systems. Windows RT will not be able to run legacy applications (including subspace). I also dislike this model, its the main reason my phone is android and not windows phone. Does the windows store not have freeware apps though? or were you planning to make it paid?

You are right, the billers reset system could be modified. Thing is there is no access to do it at this time. As far as the active names unused for 2 years goes there is an issue with that. Say somone wanted to take the name SVS, this would cause confusuion as that is a well known name in the community, even after the years its been since he went. Every name will have a history and that will be implied on anyone taking a name used previously. Some names will be significant but in many cases significance is very subjective. Because of this IMHO any name with significant usage should not be given over after 2 years of inactivity. The other issue is the time of the ops to to researech into a name and go through resetting it. It would take an army to deal with the requests if it was opened up. There is also a lot of scope to gather incomplete information and make an error.

only the brave...

I split the debate from this tread to a new one as it hides the useful information contained within this thread. Link: http://www.subspace.co/topic/26710-releasing-old-names/

If you can find some smart way to make the biller find names that are unused, will never be used and have never held any significance then go code it. OF course we have no access to biller updates of that nature so it cant be done. I understand your analogies, problems though are as below: 1) the biller is limited in what we can get from it, this makes matching information difficault 2) 10 years is a long time to retain details, I am sure of i had a name from 10 years ago I wanted back I would struggle to prove it was mine as well 3) If the rules are changed to release names at the discression of the op then were is the line drawn? does one release a name like "ksdjsjkhdsg"? How about a name like "SubSpace"? What about "SVS"? Each of those names have differing leves of significance but a clear line of which should be allowed to be claimed and which should not is fuzzy. At least with a rule where one must prove ownership as best they can is clear. Its not perfect, but IMO its the best solution given the way the system works.

What antivirus and/or firewall are you using?

A reasonable request will not be denied. A 10 year old name thats unused is not just up for grabs. If it was yours then you need to provide something to link it back to you before it can be released. Reason is to prevent name traders getting hold of names they want rather then own. Sad that it happens and makes it harder for everyone, but it IS a real issue.