Distension discussion

[kthx]

LOL Have fun in SSCU Failzone. See you in two months

Again.

[TagMor]

Now all the whiners can go suck it.

^

That server is going to have more down time than Monica Lewinski in the Oval Office.
Today 10:45 AM

you mean you desperately hope it will.
I think TW has made a big fkn mistake in letting Distension go. No matter what some people think, it is extremely popular and will cripple TW's population.

[Trunks_rage]

I figured they would do this eventually. But I think it would be smart to restrict times the bot is up at first, not as restrictive as old schedules but not 24/7 because we need to make sure the population is sustainable. Now all the whiners can go suck it.

[Liquid Blue]

best of luck

[HateTheFake]

LOL Have fun in SSCU Failzone. See you in two months.

That server is going to have more down time than Monica Lewinski in the Oval Office.

ROFL

[kthx]

LOL Have fun in SSCU Failzone. See you in two months.

That server is going to have more down time than Monica Lewinski in the Oval Office.

[roxxkatt]

it IS going to be a shit ton of work, and even though qan hasnt been ingame for 2 weeks, i have managed to talk to him irl, and all that will be required from him will be all existing files and configurations from distension, and he will continue development on distension after the port, but its looking like hes going to be way too busy to assist with the port.

the work load -might- be reduced due to the macro similarities between twcore and asss, i hope D:

the other coders really cant do shit until i get my shit together, so in this part, its all me.
so far, the asss zone is up and running, that was the easy part, currently distension is in an arena, but im thinking about putting it in a SINGLE pub, and multiples when there is multi-arena support.

next steps to be taken:
qan sends me ship settings, and any new files, and i put them in.
i get a 'hello world' module to compile, then successfully get it to load into asss (pm me ingame if you have experience with this)
work begins on the distension.java file, in converting it to a asss module. (java -> c++) (twcore -> asss)
everyone plays distension 24/7

[Stabwound]

This is a serious question: who comprises this team of 4 whom are working on converting DistensionBot to an ASSS module? It sounds like a shit ton of work, and then you have the issue of qan (if he returns) probably only developing the twcore version of Distension.

Has qan said anything about this at all?

[Money]

thank god.

[roxxkatt]

distension is dead, and will soon be like jesus and have its own zone...

tagmor asked me that same question a few days ago...

i guess im leading the dist+asss effort?
so far theres a team of 4 working on the conversion, and yes, doc flabby has offered to host the zone.

when this is finished, it will be distension, only without all the bad effects, such as rearm or queueing.



regardless of which zone dist will end up in, there will be database backups soon, and the website is STILL waiting for upload due to its waiting for tw staff to act. about a month later...


what this means to you:
stats/ships/rp will NOT be lost, even after the zone change.

[KuNi]

Distension may move zones, Dbot may come back online, qan/dug may fix something soon, i don't really mind. but could someone please give us some info on wtf is happening with distension atm?!?! or this shall end in death -.- :nuke: :death:

[TagMor]

I dont really know wtf is going on.
However, it is becoming obvious that Distension may not have a future place within TW.
I think before people start losing interest in Dist we should begin making "backup" plans in prep for the above.

So i guess first thing is to start listing problems and possible solutions with getting Dist its own server.

• Doc Flabby has offered to host a Dist server?

• Lizard Fuel has offered to host/convert to ASSS?

• Access to TW settings?

[KuNi]

umm.. a bit of topic.. but hms just lost a ban duel (correct me if im wrong)
just a warning to other distension staff not to ban duel people, cause then if qan/dug fixes the problem there will be noone to host it or to tell us any new information
and also, don't piss off any staff enough for them to want to ban duel you in the first place cause that's mean

Also can someone explain ASSS to me? i've seen some people mention this when talking about distension.

[H.M.S. Stargazer]

I have the unfortunate/fortunate task of stating that distension is being put on hiatus until further notice. We need to fix the server crashes. I do hope that we can have the bot back up and running very soon. But Qan has not been online in 6 days. I hope he comes back soon.

[HateTheFake]

Havent read this thread in a long time, but this made my day. You are so uninformed about distension and its workings that you didn't even know that dugwyler = qan. And you're also a douchebag enough that you'll make up fake statements from him. I'm doubtful dugwyler said "me and qan are figuring out how to fix it". If this isn't evidence enough you contribute nothing but more tears to this discussion, then I don't know what is. Self owned.

On your second note, agreed, but this has been brought up 9000 times before and doesn't need someone else to reiterate it.

Dug did indeed say distension might be producing the lag, and i believe it was mmav or aquatiq or someone in one of the 3 distension threads... saying qan was working on trying to tweek the bots.

Maybe if i had as many aliases as you i would care to remember them all. But the fact of the matter is your too obsessed with me. kinda sad.