Distension discussion

[TagMor]

The balance of teams is a problem. People have been defecting to the other team when it is already severily uneven.
Today i watched upc defect from a team of 16 into a team of 22.. I have seen cheese do the same thing.

[Aquatiq]

Oh I thought it was supposed to be 5% of your RP you have for progress to the next rank. Ouch, no more specializing for me.

[gdugwyler]

I'll throw in a clause somewhere so that if the RP needed for the next rank is <0, it'll add it to the total amount needed to the next rank rather than printing negative. So if you have -10/20, after the change you'll see 0/30.

I'll have to check out that Avarice code.

Anyone who's reporting bugs or has done so during beta, remember to contact me in-game regarding a reward. There are a lot of you that put in hard work who aren't getting the bonus awards you deserve. I'll try to be on more often and start playing more regularly so that you can actually talk to me about it. Sooner or later I may introduce a mode that will allow ops to load the bot without running the game, so that special commands may be accessed any time.

[Stabwound]

What's incorrect about it? Changing specializations takes 5% of your total RP, and since it won't subtract a rank level, it just puts you negative in RP needed for your next rank.

[Aquatiq]

This can't be right:

Aquatiq> !status
      DBot> ,---------------------------------------------------.
      DBot> |  2nd Lieutenant AQUATIQ   Javelin Scout - RANK 21  \
      DBot> .==========================================================================.
      DBot> | Pilot for Intergalactic Planetary, Inc..                 Army wins:  38  |
      DBot> |      Total RP:  29220                    Session RP:  45                 |
      DBot> |      Progress:  ( 804 / 4963 )           RP to next:  4159               |
      DBot> |                 [=         ]                          16% to Rank 22     |
      DBot> |      Upgrades:  29                               UP:  16                 |
      DBot> |   Auto-Energy:  (5/19)                Auto-Recharge:  (6/17)             |
      DBot> |        Streak:  0                      Played today:  132 min            |
      DBot> | ProfitSharing:  0.0%                  Participation:  100%               |
      DBot> | Promotion estimated after 7 more battle(s) won.                          |
      DBot> | Remaining RP on which you receive a special bonus: 28662RP               |
      DBot> .==========================================================================.
   Aquatiq> !specialize 3:yes
      DBot> You have specialized to SCIENCE VESSEL!
      DBot> Cost: 1461RP  (5% of current)  You now have 210 UP to spend.
   Aquatiq> .
      DBot> R-21 Javelin Science Vessel  -657 / 4963  5620RP to R-22.    [                    ]  0%  UP: 210

[Stabwound]

The ball game gives too much RP now. I mean, you might not think it's worth saying anything about, but in many cases you'll get more RP in the ball game than you will in the actual game. I got something like 800rp from one ball game today.

[DankNuggets]

I don't think avarice is working (ppl have said it has never worked)

I won a round, in which my team won with avarice. The message from the bot went along the lines of

distensionbot>Avarice! You have 100% participation earning 285RP [-75% Avarice] + 30RP for 3 sector holds for 315RP !

This was not the end of a war, it was just a normal battle.

Earlier in the day, I won a war (double RP) and recieved like ~400RP, so I'm thinking that the 75% never got taken off with avarice.




Also wondering if the calculation could be tweaked to show more strength with numbers, not ranks. We've had several games go 15 v 21 or similar with no avarice, but the games were heavily one-sided with one team winning very quickly.

[2kill]

I don't see what you're referencing?

• no autosave after round ends
• no autosave when removed

this is what he means... though I'm suprised he expected anyone to read since he said it was just a list for him lol

I hope your not skiping resting to host distension as a baby can be pretty draining

[dako]

Re: the new goal base thing

Looks cool, GJ on whoever designed it. Thing is, the wormhole has been closed off as well, which means theres going to be much less turnaround and much fewer goals. The goals werent giving out much RP to begin with, were the rewards increased to reflect this change?

[alinea]

way 2 restate, see here:
http://forums.trenchwars.org/showpos...6&postcount=50

I don't see what you're referencing?

[roxxkatt]

<snip>

Great feedback Raible, thank you!

The player Project5 experienced something similar and believes their status was not saved when they were removed from the game in order to open up a slot for another player.

way 2 restate, see here:

http://forums.trenchwars.org/showpos...6&postcount=50

HMS being in charge of scheduling is better than no one being in charge of scheduling.

Not true. I took a shit this morning more qualified for the job, probably better looking too. Why not have one of your Euro mods host it for the euros, and we can replace HMS with some other piece of shit in staff that doesn't give himself *ufo while forcing everyone else to sit in spec and watch.

[alinea]

Noticed three bugs since yesterday:

Bug #1:

RPs are not saved at round end under certain conditions. As can be seen here, I got promoted twice:

<snip>

Great feedback Raible, thank you!

The player Project5 experienced something similar and believes their status was not saved when they were removed from the game in order to open up a slot for another player.

[alinea]

On behalf of the normal people of distension,
I'm requesting that someone other than H.M.S. Stargazer be put in charge of distension scheduling / hosting.

<snip> <snip> <snip> <snip> <snip>

The 5pm-8pm EST time slot will be more stable now that I am in the swing of things. HMS being in charge of scheduling is better than no one being in charge of scheduling. It is difficult to find people willing to dedicate a set schedule to the game, especially when they are greeted with little respect and gratitude for such.

[Viruk]

Weird sequence of events this morning

Apparently FarScape got glitched lanc, then the bot crashed

Gen. Kills: Raible [76] Best Ratio: dald [2.79:1] |
| Best Streak: dald [10] RP: Raible [1235] |
.================================================= ====
Round time: 28:33

And then...

trenchwars.org/distension/statistics.php

Lancaster
1. FarScape (0)

Im willing to bet the relationship between this and the bot crashing isn't a coincidence, but does he get to keep his lanc? o.o

The bot often dies so why assume that FarScape's lanc was responsible for this? Of course I usually play at the more populated times when bot death due to something overloading is more likely and I have little idea how often it dies in a single FR game. I also cannot remember whether level 0 is normal or whether they start at level 1.
I do know the bot lasted long enough to award me RP for a kill made after the victory message when FarScape's lanc unlocked.
H.M.S. Stargazer mentioned that the billing server was going nuts after the bot crash. What form this crazyness takes is unknown to me - hopefully qan will have a better idea.