I can open it on a specified date/time with my game open script and shouldn't be an issue closing it with a small mod.

Off the wall - shame the forums don't have a live chat room.

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

"A man who has no skills can be taught, a man who has no honor has nothing."

Yeah, I used to jump into a game and meet at the Tavern for live chats now and then ;) But it is nice to have everything here on record so I can refer back to it.

Although I heard a rumor that somehow my posts were getting deleted???? I don't know what's up with that.

True enough. A lot of functions are getting shifted to
server-side scripting these days. I suppose I could
even script a game to go inactive between the hours
of X and Y if I wanted.

Right, that's definitely true. But I would be missing a great opportunity to add value to my product by stealing your ideas where they're tried and proven ;)

Probably should give it a shot. People that decide to stay with the current TWGS version might want that ability.

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

"A man who has no skills can be taught, a man who has no honor has nothing."

Hmm, chats recorded into a forum and saved for others to read/comment on later? That would be very nice for some things such as scripting help discussions.

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

"A man who has no skills can be taught, a man who has no honor has nothing."

OK, fair enough, I've not had opportunity to play very many different servers this year. On Ice-9 V'Ger creates "Fed Protected Sectors" 11 - 2000 and these are constantly patrolled (for the most part) and I believe it removes figs and armid mines. These ports are typically maxed as well for easy ppt'ing. He also had SD adjacent to Fed Space 1 - 10, so no need to sweep that MSL. This allows new players to enter the game at any time and get a "foot-hold". They can and DO build planets in the fed protected area but since they cannot have sector defenses they must move into Open Space after their 30 day from start truce expires. By then they should have L4 citadels.

True Fed Space 1 – 10 is NOT in the middle of Fed protected space, but rather on it’s edge. So some sectors from true Fed Space lead to protected space while others lead to unprotected or what I refer to as Open Space – no protection.

I don’t know much of anything about server side scripts other than my limited experience on a few servers as a player. Which would bring up a new twist – each of you do unique things with your scripts to create unique games for your players. So maybe we need to list the different types of things your server side scripts do so that JP if he wanted to could allow as much option and variation to retain that uniqueness for each sysop.

I know, shocking. Apparently it involved a discussion of some options that you were involved with, and yet I could not find the posts. I even checked the logs, but nothing. And it happened apparently during the same time I was absent. Maybe your TW bug made it in here on the forum somehow. LOL



I'm not sure that would work. You may not get a full picture, as some of us SysOp's keep our concepts and such "in-house". Besides, I'd have a pretty long list and I don't think John wants to spend another few months extra.

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If John needs to read more about it, he can go here (page 3 specifically):

http://www.classictw.com/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=30702

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A large time period is involved and not only your comments.
I would think data corruption is more likely culprit than actual deletion.

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The threads people are talking about were in smack, they are still there (All the ss crawler topics). What I saw was that vid had a conversation with john outside the forum, not in any thread. It was like "Hey, I asked John about this and he said...."
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I say go for it. If you want to take some things that our server-side scripts are doing now, all you are doing is making it avail in the TWGS and freeing our script up from one task and allowing it to do something else. Might be a nice feature for others that are not familiar with scripting.

Cool. ) I'll definitely give credit where appropriate.

In general, both player and gameop scripts provide me with insight into the kinds of features people want in this game, and though I don't want to keep people from customizing the game this way, I do think it's beneficial to incorporate the best ideas directly into the game from time to time. One of the things I want to do in v4 is provide more script/helper-like automation directly in the game.