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AmbrielSyntax wrote:

I found one doing missions, searching a file cabinet.

Oh, you can get them from furniture? I stopped looking in file cabinets and whatnot after I remembered NoRepro saying they'd drop from enemies. Right, back to Downtown!

Trying that. No luck so far. SMILEY

Figures. Just when I want them to drop tools...

It's online?

*Looks a little deeper.*

Eh-heh, so it is. SMILEY

There's a typo on the bottom of the main page, Shadow. Trying to 'retreive' things, it's not surprising you don't turn up any results. SMILEY

The delay will be worth it. SMILEY

And you're delaying infinitely less than I do on my projects, so I'd have no right to complain even if I wanted to. SMILEY

Update

Live event characters no longer have a funny tag in front of their names (e.g. {1}Tungsten), so their names are properly highlighted and coloured again.

Considering this was fixed using a single line of code a mere 50 characters long, I feel rather stupid for not doing this earlier. SMILEY

He said that implying that the update 56 patch would be delayed. As he hasn't given a reason as to why it might be delayed, I reckon he may be wrong. SMILEY

As far as I can see, they should be able to perform update 56 on time.

So far I've been getting 2006 and 2007 masks from the zombies.

Better believe it. SMILEY

And, while I remember it, welcome to B1ue and Darkspacer! SMILEY

I see. That's reaching dangerous levels on the win meter.

H'mm. Looks good, of course, but I think the page is getting a little long. I'm running at the common 1280 by 1024, and I can only see the nav bar, the news and the Datamine image before having to scroll down. The dynamically loading news box is a nice idea, but it could make space for something else. And the two Events boxes (Live and... I guess the second is supposed to be Player) only need to be half their current width if you ask me.

Whatever the case, I like the style! I'm kinda envious too; my visual creativity's gone down the toilet the past couple of years. I can still do the programming but my design stinks at the moment. SMILEY

Yours doesn't.

Looking good, Shadow! SMILEY

Very 'Web 2.0'. SMILEY

I trust you won't use too much AJAX, though, if you are at all - it tends to get overused and breaks normal browser behaviour on other sites.

Eh? Am I missing something here? The Soldier Parts and Taskmaster Heads and such have no gender. You keep collecting them and then at the end you trade them in for an areaK of...

Oh. I see. You can still trade the areaK jacket, but only to people of the same gender as you, 'cos that's the only one you're able to get.

Darkhawk wrote:

It's not Vista's fault, it's not Nvidia's fault - it is old (somewhat dubious) code designed for XP, and a failure to upgrade it accordingly. Vista is not a new thing anymore and it is the dominant OS being installed on all the new laptops and systems these days. XP will be phased out just as Win98 did before it. Failure to adapt the game to the changes of the computer world is no excuse. Nvidia cards also are not new and change quickly from one card to the next - as they continue to push the threshold of the virtual world, gaming industry. Players shouldn't have to be stuck with and old OS and outdated cards just to be able to play 1 game. From a marketing standpoint, this goes against all logic. And the sales point - not just the art is the first and foremost important thing.

They may not even be able to fix it. From what I remember, this isn't their graphics engine: it was licensed from another company. In either case the Devs that worked on it are long gone, so whoever is tasked with looking into its faults is going to have to learn the structure of the entire engine.

Shinryu wrote:

I think DarkHawk does make some valid points. While the new trinkets and whatnot are, in some cases, very nice, there are still issues within the gameplay that need attention, like clothing stacking, enemies leaving mission areas and breaking/out of line interlock animations to name just a few. These are glaring issues that both bother the vets and turn off new comers in one fell swoop. There are also things like bringing back the old combat animations and reworking the faction controls, to name a couple, which would be positive changes/enhancements that wouldn't be bug fixes but also would be a lot more impactful than fancy new t-shirts.

Those things do need to be fixed. But it's a question of manpower. Quite simply, they don't have it. And as Rarebit says, halting the production of new clothing items and fixing textures isn't going to free up manpower to fix these other issues: Rarebit doesn't have the technical expertise to deal with these problems. That's where Dracomet and NoRepro/9mmFu come in.

Edit: The game engine is Lithtech Discovery, based on Lithtech 2.2 - obviously made by Monolith. But still, as I said, the people who worked on that are long gone. It's not a simple matter of scanning the code for a quick fix to the Vista problem.

Looking good so far! SMILEY

I preferred the name Mobil Ave, though. SMILEY

Still, I can see why you changed it.

I can vouch for the /who areas (regionservers) being completely messed up. SMILEY

The area covered by a regionserver changes based on how many people are actually in a particular place. If there are lots of people, the area shrinks; if there are hardly any, it expands.

I've seen a /who area span the northern regions of Downtown and International at the same time.

I'm so happy. SMILEY

Well, no, many of them are still alive, if no longer working together. *Grumbles.*

In the northern districts of Downtown it isn't just normal lag, it's some sort of freakish überlag. I was in Park East yesterday and found myself unable to do anything at all. Attacks wouldn't work on NPCs, hardlines wouldn't do anything (I tried the exit command a few times, to no avail), chat didn't work and it took the game a good few seconds to work out I'd pressed my hyper-jump key. /jackout wouldn't work either.

So I legged it southwards to Maribeau. All my commands from Park East must have been queued up somewhere, because as soon as I hit the border between the two neighbourhoods all hell broke loose: in less than a second my attacks on NPCs came in unsuccessful, all the chat messages from the past few minutes finally reached me, a load of 'Do you wish to leave the Matrix' boxes popped up, and I got jacked out of the game (obviously from my /jackout commands).

Normal lag (like the stuff in southern Downtown and Mara) I can deal with, but this is crazy!

Looking forward to it, man. Top stuff! SMILEY

I said congratulations ages ago, but I'll say it again so I don't look like a meanie.

Congratulations! SMILEY

*Waits patiently for the podcast.*

Sorry, I thought I'd changed the URL in this thread. I probably gave up after making a mess of the thread in the Sytnax NR forum when I tried to edit it. God, I hate these forums.

Actually... I did keep this thread up-to-date. You should have read the rest of the thread: I posted the new URL. SMILEY

The actual command '/commands' lists all the slash commands, but sadly not their parameters. I can't think of any resource that lists all the parameters.

I'm the other way around. I've always been hopeless with Flash, but used to use Dreamweaver. I'm all about hand-coding now, so debugging is my speciality. SMILEY

Take it easy, Virrago, and try not to think of the mess you'll have to clear up when you get back. SMILEY

Oooh, yes. SMILEY

Nah, that's been happening to me for months. You've just been lucky to not have noticed it until now.

Heh, welcome back to the madhouse. I'm sure you've been looking forward to it. SMILEY

-_-

Not this again. No! SMILEY

Ah, I've been waiting for the next big update. Can't check it out till I'm home, though. I'm guessing the execution still sucks.

I'd love to know what they've been working on all these months is nothing's improved very much.

Oh, I use it for spying on the game without launching MxO itself. It's good for seeing how many people are in-game and is as close to the old out-of-game AOL chat as we're ever going to get.

But for those functions, the launcher is way too bloated, way too slow and... Why is it made in Flash?!

I can sort of see where they're coming from by not correlating multiple instances of the same friend. If you initiate a conversion to an in-game friend through their entry under one of your characters, that character will appear to be speaking to the person in-game. Initiate it through your second character and they will talk to your friend. That's kinda neat. It means I can talk to people in-game as both Procurator and my ship's operator (one of my alts). Plus, it looks like the cross-game SOE chat system needs a 'from' character and a 'to' character to send messages, so if you correlated all the friends it would have to pick one of your characters at random to use as the 'from' character, which would be weird.

Having said that, of course, the execution still sucks. They should correlate the friends in the list, but let you choose a character to speak from when you initiate a conversation. Neater, cleaner, more efficient. More intelligent. >_>

And the appearance of dead characters is really annoying. I know they keep the names attached to players' accounts, but there's obviously a flag on each character that tells the game they belong to whether they're an active character or not. Use that to work out whether or not to add them to the list! It should have been one of the first things they programmed.

Heh, no point. These things have been mentioned a dozen times already. They say they'll, uh, take it into consideration...

*Raises an eyebrow.*

MySpace, huh?

*Walks away.*

Nah, good luck with it. SMILEY

I shan't go anywhere near it, mind.

Woah. I've been spotted before, but my operator's never said anything when it happened.

I don't know how the lists of actions are constructed, but by the looks of things both NPCs and players share the same system, so making Details the default for one makes it default for the other.

Hopefully they are constructed differently, in which case they should be able to change the NPCs' menu. I doubt it, though, as I don't think they'd've consciously made the choice to have NPCs show the details panel by default.

I think the fact that you've lost the default free-fire command by double-clicking on reds is deliberate. I just checked an even earlier thread and found this:

Rarebit wrote:

Also inconvenient when you accidentally attack a red you were trying to talk to on Vector...as, say, the Oracle. =p

So I doubt they're gonna change it back. Just use your + key! Or get a fancy mouse like Vinia. SMILEY

Groovy!

And excellent timing, too. I need to read that log.

GypsyJuggler wrote:

The right-click menu on PCs has also changed. Details is at the top and Recruit to Mission/Crew are on the right.

What?! Then does double clicking someone go to the Details panel by default? *Runs off to check.*

For someone like me who logs everything (and I'm glad to see I'm not alone in that

), that'd be a log file for every time I jack in, which is a scary prospect. People can divide log files up themselves with a bit of pattern matching. Personally I have a log file for every month, weighing in at about 3MiB each. That's not too bad to do oneself.

GoDGiVeR wrote:

Well, that's not what I meant. If they get influenced, THEN added to the base points and the AGAIN the base (with the bonus added) gets influenced, it DOES matter. All boni are added together in the end, the question still is, when are they influenced and when are they added?

Oh. Good grief! They're not going to get influenced twice. SMILEY

At least, they'd better not get influenced twice...

We won't get rolls, because that would break combat. We'd be able to calculate an opponent's defense points, and use that to our advantage. As it stands, showing the accuracy bonuses only helps people who couldn't be bothered to work it out themselves - as task which was certainly possible.