LOL.

Wait, was that funny?

How many tries did it take you, 4 or 5 tries to get it right?

It only let me guess once

Exactly on the why of trying, but using it to mess with a group of people that don't use scripts - nah.

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

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

Could a possible option for this be that if a person gets a question or 2, or 3 wrong, it slows their connection down to 2400 or 1200 BPS, and lets them continue playing until they start getting questions right at next login?

The post he is refering to is in this same thread.


This forum automatically removes curse words, so aparently that isn't considered one.

Ice9 is one hot TWGS, so maybe it was a trick question

I haven't actually seen a challenge question yet. But I think I encountered one while running a ZTM script with my incoming text display turned off. The script hung, and when I killed it, I found myself in a different sector, sitting in an escape pod. The game log said I was destroyed by enemy fighters.

Yea wasn't that fun....

Now that is what I call balancing a game .. scripters in pods and at key players in merchant cruisers .. lol

It looks like we'll have to make the pod pretty good then:

MASSIVE ESCORT POD

255 holds - 200k figs - IG - 16k shields - twarp - halo scanner - planet scanner - 8:1 offensive odds - 8:1 defensive odds - 50 hop xport range - 20 gtorps - 20 dets - 10 torps - 255 armids - 255 limpets - 40 mine disrupters - 100 eprobes.

Now that's an escape pod Space Ghost would be proud of.

Considering EIS consist primarily of scripter’s (seems to me to be the ones you keep addressing and asking for help from) I’m not seeing the problem from our end. Do you see the Irony?

Only if you force it on us I would. Like the neat bugs you keep creating, I’m not going to help fix them when I can use them to our advantage.

I don’t find it to difficult to walk into a game, find a noob and teach them how to use the scripts, must be just me.

I would be interested in knowing who here at EIS is not leaving noobs alone. Base on all the “PLEASE come test this” and “Why doesn’t anyone show up to these old school bangs” statements I have been seeing, makes me think we are leaving them alone…all alone…heh

Because you keep babbling on about this stuff. but really I don't think that I do till it's implemented.

I think this and the hybrid delay mode you were discussing are the right thing to do with the future of this game, JP. You are right to be searching for a way to encourage players who aren't programmers and IT professionals to play, and to make the game playable for n00bs.

People are just resistant to change.

I say this and Helix has just posted a fresh bang in which scripting is prohibited, and it made me realize, I would not want to play such a game. Colonizing and cashing, my two most common TW activities, would incredibly tedious without the use of automation.

I don't think you were proposing that you wanted to do away with ALL script use, though.

There are a lot of activities that scripts help out with that are of the non-PvP type. There are scripts that datamine that indirectly support PvP/invasions, cashing, and anything you might want to know. As a guess, people who do not want scripts are generally talking about:
Planet dropping (direct or adjacent)
Photoning (twarp, planet warp, density)
Hunter (hit a fig and it warps either direct or adjacent)
Cit killers
Invasion
....
and the list goes on, but it is generally attacking someone. Thing is the forbidden/allowed list is up to the sysOp, and I would take "no scripts" to mean just that - no TWX, REXX, or even SWATH's internal scripts allowed.

Does the elimination of combat scripts even out things? Maybe, maybe not - I can't type as fast as a lot of people on a good day, and on a bad day....., but my computer and scripts can keep up.

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

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