Topic: **ED Hell Fun server- Backup, Chat is working!!! (Read 9800 times)

NuclearWessels · « **Reply #40 on:** December 05, 2006, 02:26:09 pm »

Quote from: Lepton on December 03, 2006, 10:48:30 am

I feel like an asshat for being critical in that it's an amazing effort and people are enjoying these missions, but I don't see the appeal. It's my sense that people want combat not missions per se. Hasn't this been what we have been doing for the past 7 years? Isn't that why we are here? As for the pirate end, there are any number of games out there committed to being a privateer. While the additions seem to be welcome by many, I don't have a sense that people will play SFC for the commerce end of the pirate game, but I could be wrong.

You're not being an asshat at all, honest feedback is what we want! And I agree with you in a lot of ways - I think many/most servers will still be combat oriented, in which case it's easy to simply not include these two scenario scripts. (Or to include only the friendly space scenarios, not the enemy space ones.)

I do think there's room for the odd specialty server though (I really enjoyed HB's last pirate server - in part I've had that style of server in mind while working on these.) And keep in mind that any PvP situations automatically revert to combat, so the front lines will still be about a good ol' scrap.

For the sake of testing I've left the probabilities of different scenarios more-or-less equal, but those distributions are easily changed. I'd expected to have to adjust the probabilities so that the non-combat scenarios are much rarer in hostile space, and so that some of the scenarios are really rare.

The other thing that we need to play with is the length of time it takes to detect and reach the opposition - I've stuck in some default values for now, but they are easily adjusted. (Note: they can be adjusted by scenario type as well, so some of the scenarios can be sped up if desired.)

Any and all feedback is welcome - please don't hold back out of fear of sounding negative!

thanks,
dave

NuclearWessels · « **Reply #41 on:** December 05, 2006, 02:32:34 pm »

Quote from: FPF-DieHard on December 03, 2006, 11:16:24 am

Server has been sped up to 2.5 minutes per turn.

I think the anomolies are a fun diversion but Leptop is knida right, they do occur too often. Perhaps the anomoliies should only occur in friendly/Neutral space? I think in hostile space you are much more likely to encounter enemies than space aomembas.

Yep, you bet. Playing with what appears/where/how often is something I can really use feedback on, since I've pretty much just been pulling it out of my ass so far

dave

Alphageek · « **Reply #42 on:** December 05, 2006, 02:59:21 pm »

Quote from: NuclearWessels on December 05, 2006, 02:32:34 pm

Quote from: FPF-DieHard on December 03, 2006, 11:16:24 am
Server has been sped up to 2.5 minutes per turn.

I think the anomolies are a fun diversion but Leptop is knida right, they do occur too often. Perhaps the anomoliies should only occur in friendly/Neutral space? I think in hostile space you are much more likely to encounter enemies than space aomembas.

Yep, you bet. Playing with what appears/where/how often is something I can really use feedback on, since I've pretty much just been pulling it out of my ass so far

dave

Maybe this is a dumb idea, but how about a scenario that combines a scanning mission with some enemy ships? You'd have to scan for long enough to make holding out against enemy fire a challenge. Then you could either escape with the data or, perhaps, fight your way out.

NuclearWessels · « **Reply #43 on:** December 05, 2006, 03:46:48 pm »

Quote from: Alphageek on December 05, 2006, 02:59:21 pm

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Maybe this is a dumb idea, but how about a scenario that combines a scanning mission with some enemy ships? You'd have to scan for long enough to make holding out against enemy fire a challenge. Then you could either escape with the data or, perhaps, fight your way out.

That's not a dumb idea at all. There are some details I'll need to work out to make that fit with the existing scenario structure, so it'll have to go on the "to do later" pile, but I like it!

thanks,
dave

Lieutenant_Q · « **Reply #44 on:** December 06, 2006, 02:33:48 pm »

Can anyone finish this line for me?

XenoCorp.IRCsys tells you: *** If you are having problems connecting due to ping timeouts, please type /q ...

Riskyllama · « **Reply #45 on:** December 06, 2006, 05:59:49 pm »

Quote from: Lieutenant_Q on December 06, 2006, 02:33:48 pm

Can anyone finish this line for me?

XenoCorp.IRCsys tells you: *** If you are having problems connecting due to ping timeouts, please type /q ...

if you connect to the IRC server through the OCI..assuming they still allow that, you can read the whole message. I'd tell you what it says, but i dont have a forge character presently

Lieutenant_Q · « **Reply #46 on:** December 06, 2006, 10:55:43 pm »

Geek, if you're up for it, I think I may have resolved the issue on my computer as to why you couldn't draft me, if your available tommorow we could run a couple to test.

Alphageek · « **Reply #47 on:** December 07, 2006, 02:41:25 am »

That would be cool. Sorry I couldn't stay for the whole test tonight. It was fun.

Alphageek · « **Reply #48 on:** December 07, 2006, 09:31:22 am »

I tried to get on the server around 8 a.m. EST and it wasn't listed. Then I tried again around 9 a.m., and still no luck.

FPF-DieHard · « **Reply #49 on:** December 07, 2006, 09:49:30 am »

Quote from: Alphageek on December 07, 2006, 09:31:22 am

I tried to get on the server around 8 a.m. EST and it wasn't listed. Then I tried again around 9 a.m., and still no luck.

It's back up now, I've changed physicall hardware from what I used to use. I'll figure out why it turns off at night.

EDIT: I'm a dumbass, I forget to set the Terminal Service Session to never time out

Don't EVER upgrade your hardware

Alphageek · « **Reply #50 on:** December 08, 2006, 05:59:49 pm »

Curses. Die Hard, you need to update your server with the latest pack. Since I got the new pack my files don't match yours.

FPF-DieHard · « **Reply #51 on:** December 09, 2006, 10:37:50 pm »

Quote from: Alphageek on December 08, 2006, 05:59:49 pm

Curses. Die Hard, you need to update your server with the latest pack. Since I got the new pack my files don't match yours.

Will do tommorow, I JUST got home from friday. who wants to organize some MP bug tests for this week?

Lieutenant_Q · « **Reply #52 on:** December 10, 2006, 08:41:49 pm »

I'll be on tommorow morning and early Afternoon. Then I nominally would have Tuesday and Wednesday all day...however, my car needs some work done to it, and I don't know how long its going to take. I guess I'm going to have to play it by ear.

FPF-DieHard · « **Reply #53 on:** December 10, 2006, 09:15:47 pm »

Server is back up with the Dec 8 Missions

Alphageek · « **Reply #54 on:** December 11, 2006, 03:07:04 am »

Lieutenant_Q · « **Reply #55 on:** December 11, 2006, 12:32:26 pm »

server's down...

FPF-DieHard · « **Reply #56 on:** December 11, 2006, 06:34:40 pm »

should be up now

Lieutenant_Q · « **Reply #57 on:** December 11, 2006, 09:35:38 pm »

not seeing it, still.

FPF-DieHard · « **Reply #58 on:** December 12, 2006, 11:50:13 am »

Quote from: Lieutenant_Q on December 11, 2006, 09:35:38 pm

not seeing it, still.

Having directory server issues, I'll check it tonight as it could be my Home network

Lieutenant_Q · « **Reply #59 on:** December 17, 2006, 12:52:42 am »

Sorry Geek, I don't know what happened on that last one, got something weird with the countdown timer, but I've been noticing that all the missions have been taking longer to get in and out of.

Anyways, I have to get going, its going to be a long enough day tomorrow as it is.

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