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This game wasn't really designed with that in mind beyond the Arena's, and I tend to agree on the trash talking issues that would follow. There is already more than enough drama to go around without something like this to stir the pot. Maybe in select systems, like maybe the Arena's and perhaps the more lawless sectors like BBW/Pirate Space. But globally its probably a bad idea as it will likely create more problems than its worth.
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Guys, this is actually done in a much easier manner than you realize. Certain "components" of networking appliances and equipment actually already have the back doors built in (courtesy of Cisco and other network hardware companies build this functionality in their hardware). All they have to do is use a facility like the newest version, built no less than a 30 minute drive from my house. The Feds use these data centers to collect and process HUGE amounts of data, then query against it for what they need. So while many people have the tinfoil hats already on before I posted. But it may make many more go grab the roll from the kitchen, when they find out that this has been happening for well over a decade now (Pre-911). The only real difference now is that storage capacity has become very cheap, and has increased exponentially along with Moore's Law, and the tools for searching the data they collect have become more sophisticated and advanced.
Games are simply another form of human socialization that the Fed's monitor. While something as small as this emulator is still likely stashed on some nameless server someplace, I'd be willing to bet we have little to worry about. Internet anonymity has been dead and buried a long time ago. Its just taken the public this long to figure this out.
I am not saying what they (Fed's/NSA) are doing is right. In fact as a Systems Admin, I happen to believe quite the contrary. But the only thing we as a public can do about this is to push the politicians to put controls on the NSA via new laws, governing the scope of their data collection. Until this happens, they will likely continue to collect whatever data they wish. This was the topic of a local news story recently (with that datacenter in our backyard, we see stories about this regularly) that even the "experts" at the local University, tend to agree with. But until something is taken on in a legal sense, little can be done to curtail these activities.
One crack in the design I suspect they will discover, is that collecting data in the manner that they do, requires a blank paycheck and huge amount of resources. Something that won't likely stay the same with the world economy in the condition it is today.
Sorry for the long post. :)
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So perhaps a new setting in the effect.ini or something that we may tweak by slash command?? Other thoughts??
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Unicorn has my vote.
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AS I said in my post, you will hear from us when and the folks in VonCorp when we are each ready to discuss it. Until then, I agree 110% with Alurra's comments that its up to the guild leadership to discuss these matters. Please do not start any drama here, there is no need for it. Bleak & Zo, If you have additional issues you want discussed, talk to one of us. We will discuss all of our perspectives when the time is right with the leadership of the big 3, and we will see what happens then.
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Nothing is final until the leadership of ALL of the "Big 3" have all agreed on any changes to the rotation. Nothing can be approved until this happens. We are currently mulling our decision (Static). We also have not heard VGE's opinion on this matter as last I heard, they too were discussing this issue.
There are still discussions taking place on this issue from the other 2 of the big 3. To assume you are already in the schedule at this point, is premature, and who ever told you that you were, had no authority to do so. We will be in touch soon with our decision, and we look forward to hearing from our friends in VonCorp regarding this issue.
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Not a huge deal Darrk, its the way they are rendered by the engine on my GF590 on these big monitors. More distracting than anything as I spend a lot of time there. If they looked a bit more like the mining gasses (though not so dense), it would be a different matter as they'd be a bit more realistic. I have the sector lists from my dev days here, I'll figure it out from here on my end. I looked in there once before, but didn't think to knock out that debris setting as I wasn't sure what that exactly meant. (Didn't think that the setting was for the nebula itself.)
Thanks a ton for the info man! Greatly appreciated! I'll tweak it from here. :)
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Hi,
I spoke with someone a while ago about getting a command in somewhere to turn off the silly nebula effect that was turned on a few months back. At best, It's quite annoying. They had said that Darkk was the dude who added it to game, and that they were going to check in to see in getting it added to the effects.ini file. Now that he appears to be inactive, will someone take the time to add this option?
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in last patch Notes:
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Added: Certain raid timers will now "survive" the regulary server shutdown on patch day.
oke they dit im happy for that i know Static and BI dit an raid on sunday. but i think the patch broke the normal spawn times. because we ( static and BI) dit not do a raid any more from sunday and no one have seen a trigger to start the raid. is there a chance that the time the server went down the triggers are buged?
Yep, I can confirm Jamoos's post. Not seen GoBB here since Sunday. We would greatly appreciate a dev or someone to look into this for us.
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How aboot a "Sticky Buffs" device. Remember the bug back in ST4 that allowed players to keep buffs until logout/crash? A device that would do this would be very cool.
1. If a player has it, perhaps have the buffs applied by that player to others also be applied sticky.
2. Make the timeout 1 day or something insanely long as well.
3. Device would last 1 month on the player, and maybe need not be equipped, merely owned. (description could read something like electromagnetic field produced by this device is insanely powerful.)
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Well now. I guess device activated raids dont sound to bad now does it.
I've always liked this idea. "Turn the Servant of Edward Teach" into an "Old Boonie" type of thing. Ultimately, this would be the best way to go IMO. But until we see it, we plan accordingly. :)
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I'm betting the timers will get some love as Ulyydian stated. An independent timer would be a good way to handle it. The server could record the current timer on shutdown (for example), and either resume it, or compare the time difference upon restart, then subtract the difference. Shouldn't be too terribly difficult to figure something amicable out. :)
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For the sake of simplicity, the consensus on our side of the fence is 100% in agreement with what Magoo and I stated above. The week of the switch, we will forgo the raid change on Tuesday, and continue with the current rotation through Saturday. -Which becomes the day of the next switch/rotation.
From there, we propose to begin the next rotation either the server restart, or 12:00PM, U.S. Eastern time in the event that there isn't a patch. This builds in some time for server/patch issues (being late, bugs), and is a good round number that is easy to remember.
Does this work for everyone?? Or do we have other ideas for consideration??
Thanks Zack for the heads up, and special thanks for the cooperation from BI and VGE for your input.
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Note: Post edited to address the time of day for rotation switch.
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His idea 3 is my idea 1, and I liked idea one. :)Our raiders have yet to weigh in however. I'll know tonight.
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Regarding this change, what approach do we want to take in terms of the Big 3 Raid rotation..?
1. Did we want to extend the week to that Saturday for the rotation to reset then??
2. Or switch on tuesday, and again on Saturday?
3. Or just keep rotating on tuesdays?
4. Other idea??
My preference for simplicity would be the first option, but we should all weigh in now so we have a plan. :)
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It would be nice to see all the factions in game there as well. For example, the Renegade Progen.
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As mentioned in another area:
Yesterdays (7.25.13) lag around 5:00PM EST was inside one and one's network. I didn't have enough time to complete my own tests before a duce (drunk driver) managed to take out the Internetz for our area by hitting a light pole. (Comcast in municipalities typically follows the power lines)
64.208.27.237 < Some
64.209.105.234 < Where it really started
ae-10.bb-c.slr.lxa.us.oneandone.net < Where PL hit over 34% loss
ae-10.gw-distp-a.slr.lxa.oneandone.net
ae-1.gw-prtr-r4-1a.slr.lxa.oneandone.net
u15438806.onlinehome-server.com
The 6 hops above 64.208.27.237 were all at zero loss. (I'll also post this in the other thread.)
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Yesterdays around 5:00PM EST was inside one and one's network. I didn't have enough time to complete my own tests before a duce (drunk driver) managed to take out the Internetz for our area by hitting a light pole. (Comcast in municipalities typically follows the power lines)
64.208.27.237 < Some
64.209.105.234 < Where it really started
ae-10.bb-c.slr.lxa.us.oneandone.net < Where PL hit over 34% loss
ae-10.gw-distp-a.slr.lxa.oneandone.net
ae-1.gw-prtr-r4-1a.slr.lxa.oneandone.net
u15438806.onlinehome-server.com
The 6 hops above 64.208.27.237 were all at zero loss. (I'll also post this in the other thread.)
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I've messed around in the past with updating textures on planets and importing a few test items, back in my EMU dev days early on. The biggest thing will be to get the game engine to render many items correctly. The challenge is making things appear as they should, using newer tools to create the items, while still placing them into such an old and outdated engine. So Darkk is right on the money that its a bitch without the Westwood internal art tools.
The advantage of using a direct draw surface (.dds) over the use of regular textures, simply put, is mipping. In a nutshell, its the ability of any direct draw game using a .dds file for a texture, to be able to use the lower resolution copies of the textures contained in the .dds file, at greater distances where the detail would be lost anyway. So the point is to reduce the load to the graphics engine to render those lower versions contained in the .dds file itself. Something that is still done in many if not all games today. So its not only a texture, the file should also contain the lower detail versions of the same texture applied to a model to be called by the game engine. Sometimes you see this when approaching objects you encounter in EnB. They appear to change when moving closer to them from a good distance out.
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Not sure what the deal is with the restarts, other than the dev's might be out getting some needed fun in the sun. I'd bet the schedule will resume in regards to restarts, at some point.
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5:00PM EST on Tuesdays if there isn't a restart, was the agreed time Goo. Or the server reset also switches rotation.
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Test Ship Editor needs fixing or something per the updated device images. Try equipping a chim in there to see what I mean. It would also be nice to be able to apply buffs from other devices to add to your totals, and have a combat device setup installed with other activate buffs still applied.
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I'll try and post winmeter logs when/if the lag hits me, to add to your data. Anything I can do to help to point to a possible solution. :)
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PS. Is there a server restart coming today or ???.... Waiting for today's patch along with many people. I imagine you guys are working on something last minute??
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Kyp, I'm not looking for a witch to burn in the least. I am trying to get some love for our game. Whether lag, or lack of drops, what have ya... I would like to see the break down of what your real hosting expenses vs. hardware needs are. I do this sort of thing for a living now as a sysadmin in RL. I may be able to help in some way, or at the very least, shop around for you guys. Gratis of course. :) If so, we can work via e-mail or through PM... Whatever you are most comfortable with.
On the other issues, even a free project ergo Emulators, game mods, what have ya, have to have protocol and rules like a business does, for everyone involved or its not happening. As for the fixes or making changes, something definitely needs to be done in both directions. Your dev's talk about balancing the game, when the fact is the game is being ran waaaay too conservatively. Whether its resources (mining), drops, lack of xp for jobs (this one made more than a few people leave), what have ya... The tactic seems to be "keep them busy and playing through starvation of game resources and items." -And that isn't right. By doing this, you only cause and make issues for your players . You might have a better response by actually providing them with the items they need in game, and instead focus on more content in game in the form of missions, items, resources, etc, instead of starving them for items that should be a lot easier to obtain. Work to address the needs of your player base, and give them a good deal of other shizzle to do without nerf batting (which has been too often) unless it absolutely needs to happen. Granted, I get that you can't give away the farm, but like Bleakend said, no one likes to camp or kill a rare spawn too damn many times with nothing but junk falling out. This should be more of a "What item will I get this time??"
The same for mining and hulks. Someone got it in their head that hulk fields would "wreck the economy" of the game (I wont say here which dev that actually said it), but this too is the wrong approach and an odd thing to say. First, there aren't enough people who play this game regularly enough to actually support a full blown game economy. Second, when have prototype items (even the comps or devices) been all that valuable? Maybe the attitude should be to put some new fields in instead, with a new one put someplace else off the beaten path on occasion. The same could be said for ore fields. There are still many that haven't been put back into the game to begin to approach live levels. Instead, we are often butting heads or finding many tapped out or cherry picked. Someone on your team even suggested that "conflict among players is a good thing, and that they liked it." Totally the wrong attitude for a player vs. environment MMO, and just plain wrong altogether. If things were working as they should (whether drops, etc), the conflict would be a lot less and players might actually be in better spirits about the game.
What I working at -is a different mindset from the dev crew to their player base. Instead of the secretive & ultra conservative approach, perhaps the way to go is a more open, more positive approach to the game, for the players Instead. Your player base should be treated as your greatest asset as well, and keeping them happy (within reason) shouldn't be too terribly hard to achieve.
But I don't know, maybe I'm too late and am just pissing in the wind here. I don't know how seriously you guys think things are or how much you even give a rats ass about any of this. However many are smelling the end of this project into a second sunset. No one up here wants that to happen, but unless changes are made, that's likely where they are headed.
Again, thanks for reading...
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Yes indeed, I'm a lucky guy to have a wife who is also a gamer. She is usually on the Xbox 360 playing Mass Effect, but I think she has played all of the paths through that game, and probable most of not all of the storyline "forks." Its an interesting game to say the least. She does play EnB periodically, but usually on one of my characters mining or something mellow. I very seldom catch any flack for being on my puter most of the day. I also work from the same spot I game. :)
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