Distension discussion

[TagMor]

dude just stfu you have no idea.

There have been many reasons to question Staffs interest in Distension.
For instance, cutting the scheduled hours in half and only at times when most people are sleeping/working.
Then you have people like ward who has staff influence, and has been quoted saying the distension issue is a "war".
When qan dissapeared, HMS said he didnt know if qan will ever be back DUE TO STAFF ATTITUDE.
Now HMS has left/on strike for what is most likely Distension related.

Edit: Oh and despite requests in various threads, I am yet to see TW management make a post regarding their intentions with dist.

So again I am going to ask you to stay the fuck out of a discussion you know nothing about.

[Liquid Blue]

lol?

Ok we are all social handicaps to some degree.
I like playing a 2D spaceship RPG. And due to incompetent management have been forced to guess and hope as to when it will be available... Which, when spread out over months of excuses and a disinterested staff, tends to build frustration.

I know you love cock, it is quite obvious.

you needlessly get frustrated over and bitch about it, throwing things out of proportion. The guy who created the event said "hey I'm starting to fix these problems, chill for a little bit" and you started complaining about stargazer quitting. Fucking relax, this shit won't be fixed in a week or so, that's been stated like 20 times.

If you can't be patient at least stop posting bullshit conspiracy theories about how some higher power is trying to constantly bring down Distension, you aren't helping the people that are trying to get things working.

Can somebody explain to me why distension needs an op to be its champion for it to be hosted? Does all the staff except HMS hate it because people don't want to play elim anymore or something?

I will say that Distension is the only thing that's made me come to Trench Wars(i.e. play Continuum) regularly for years. I'll occasionally stop in to see if a decent event is being hosted and play for an hour tops but it's all the same these days. It's really disheartening to see the first really new thing to come to the zone in years being snubbed because of all the conservative minds in the staff, so I hope you guys can work something out.

[TagMor]

lol?

Ok we are all social handicaps to some degree.
I like playing a 2D spaceship RPG. And due to incompetent management have been forced to guess and hope as to when it will be available... Which, when spread out over months of excuses and a disinterested staff, tends to build frustration.

I know you love cock, it is quite obvious.

[Liquid Blue]

I'm the one with the social handicap

when you're the one constantly whining about how everyone is against Distension and has tried to throw hundreds of dollars down just to get your previously unstable arena game up and running

yep

I love the dick, alright

[TagMor]

Whilst for some people this forum serves as somekind of safety-house for their social handicaps, I dont really give a shit what u people think.
I will say what i want and dont base my posts on how many e-friends it will create... Unlike some people... Like yourself who sucks more cock than paris hilton in nightvision.

[Liquid Blue]

Staff still think it is broken:

?help can someone clarify what is happening with distension?
(M_M God)>I think the bot is screwed

Edit: And HMS said: (MessageBot)>2009 Jan 2 5:09AM (distension) H.M.S. Stargazer: I am quitting. Sorry guys.. I hope you find someone else who will make your dreams happen.

So after the server recycles are worked out something else prevents dist from running.. HOW FUCKING CONVENIENT.

jesus you whine like a bitch

do you act this way in real life?

[PH]

ff

[TagMor]

The energy bug (receiving far less energy than you should) is now fixed. Just thought you might like to know.

Other updates were placed in that are allowing Distension to run without the recycling issues (posted a few days ago on staff forums):

Staff still think it is broken:

?help can someone clarify what is happening with distension?
(M_M God)>I think the bot is screwed

Edit: And HMS said: (MessageBot)>2009 Jan 2 5:09AM (distension) H.M.S. Stargazer: I am quitting. Sorry guys.. I hope you find someone else who will make your dreams happen.

So after the server recycles are worked out something else prevents dist from running.. HOW FUCKING CONVENIENT.

[gdugwyler]

Energy bug

The energy bug (receiving far less energy than you should) is now fixed. Just thought you might like to know.

Other updates were placed in that are allowing Distension to run without the recycling issues (posted a few days ago on staff forums):

• Increased rearm time. We MAY be able to lower this back down a little once it's clear the game is running fine
• End-round LVZ removed (victory, defeat)
• End-round messages sent out slowly (~5 per clustered packet send)
• All spams (armory, help, etc) in a separate Distension-only message queue shared among all players. This way, if 10 players type !help at the same time, player 1 receives all her messages first, then player 2 receives his, and so on down the line. There will occasionally be noticeable lag in the spams (even now, if you type !help when not many players are playing, you'll see some minor 1/10 of a second lag every 5 or so lines), and commands will be less responsive when many people use them at once. This is normal, but I'll need feedback on settings, such as if it's too slow. It seems fine for now.
• Multiprizes used for prizing energy. Should cut down a bit on prizes sent out. This will need to be expanded to Z-Class. (This is where the energy bug was coming from. As mentioned above, the issue's fixed.)

In other words, we're back and here to stay. HMS and other Ops will be running limited tests in the days to come, slowly increasing length of uptime and number of players, in order to demonstrate the bot is able to run properly. The testings will be intermittent. Apparently they're running pretty late at night, EST, at present... apologies if it's difficult to catch these tests.

Finally, there are also other options in the works that would allow Distension (and all other bots) to run almost lag-free... more to come on this. It's certainly not going away, but we're going to make it work without taking down the zone, and without destroying all other forms of gameplay.

[KuNi]

go figure, distension was hosted yesterday and the zone recycled. I think i saw a max of 23 ppl there

Huuh? i was there for both hosts, the 45 min one, and the 25 min one, the zone didn't recycle during either of them, and when the player count got to 18 hms killed distension, cause there was too many people.
now I'm confused :S


Nawww, hms, un-?ignore me !! >: (

[HateTheFake]

well.. I'm glad distension is back, but why did terr energy really need to change? i was playing yesterday and my terr couldn't even tank a lvl 2 bullets(lvl 24, warship, with only 1325 energy i think), but before i had about 1600 and something(i think). Terriers need to be able to tank bullets, heaps of people already have lvl 3 bullets, and to put terriers energy down is stupid, they are the main ship on the team, and when theres not many people playing,and theres no terr, people dont want to play terr unless they have a high level one in there hangar.
Or is this encouraging more people to level up there terr more?

go figure, distension was hosted yesterday and the zone recycled. I think i saw a max of 23 ppl there

[KuNi]

well.. I'm glad distension is back, but why did terr energy really need to change? i was playing yesterday and my terr couldn't even tank a lvl 2 bullets(lvl 24, warship, with only 1325 energy i think), but before i had about 1600 and something(i think). Terriers need to be able to tank bullets, heaps of people already have lvl 3 bullets, and to put terriers energy down is stupid, they are the main ship on the team, and when theres not many people playing,and theres no terr, people dont want to play terr unless they have a high level one in there hangar.
Or is this encouraging more people to level up there terr more?

[gdugwyler]

Quick update: still going on this. The last few weeks have been a special kind of hell for me, but Distension is not going down by any means -- just needs a couple of (major) tweaks. There should be a working version up today. The above post shows a demo of an early version.

[KuNi]

AWW >: (

DBOT IS IN DISTENSION AGAIN RIGHT NOW, BUT IM THE ONLY ONE IN THERE -.-
someone come play wif me , im so sad >:<<<

edit:ARGGHH!H!! SOJA JUST CAME BBUT THEN HE SAYS HES TO FRICKIN LAGGY TO PLAY AND LEAVES! ITS NOT LIKE HES LAGGY AS ME. HATE YOU SOJA.

ARRHGHGHG:death:

ok.. EDIT: ... well... fusha and xPi have come to play with me!!! : ))... but... dbot is really screwed up(more than usual). I was just switching between my terr, wb, and weasel and the ships energy keeps changin. My normal energy in weasel is i think 1150(im level 18. z-class), and then i switched to wb then bak again, and it was 1550! HHAAHA, i was tankin yellows and then shootin one after!
I then switched back to my WB and its energy was 1150, and i couldnt shoot multi, i thought my kb was broken, and my wb is lvl 23 scout so plenty enough energy to shoot a multi lvl 2. My terr energy went up to 1900 instead of normal 1650(i think).
AND my javs armory says ive upgraded my energy 49 times out of 19 possible and i have 1729, just gone up to 1778 energy on my level 2 ship. Im shootin 2 jav bombs in a row o.o

so.. yer, somethin is really screwed up with dbot. Maybe he has a fever? or he's just lost it :stuart: