Distension discussion

[Liquid Blue]

Okay, that's it. Since recycles continue to be a problem, that's it for Distension until something major is done. Sorry, guys, but find another hobby for awhile.

OK we now have a dbot which has managed to die at least twice in an under 2 hour session but without recycling the server.Good job! Hope this means that Distension gets hosted regularly again.

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Okay, that's it. Since recycles continue to be a problem, that's it for Distension until something major is done. Sorry, guys, but find another hobby for awhile.

oh ok, that's better.

[Viruk]

distension sucks... why have a wb in distension if it sucks in every way possible?

why do spiders shoot the same type of bullets but can spray them while the wb can shoot one time and recharge? it gets no special abilities and overal is a trash ship in distension

I realize you wanted to nerf it, but why nerf it so much that it is useless and obsolete? Fix it already.

It isn't that bad: Yes it has high fire costs but it has reasonable energy, is fast and can dodge without afterburner. It has fast bullets which can be upgraded to L3 quite early (at level 31 whereas spiders dont get L2s until level 47) and it can also have a mine, escape pods and thors. It also has that special that sometimes lets it briefly spam out slow bombs: Often we are so busy laughing we forget to dodge and they actually kill us!

Despite its drawbacks I enjoy playing mine and some players get to high rank with them.

[Exalt]

distension sucks... why have a wb in distension if it sucks in every way possible?

why do spiders shoot the same type of bullets but can spray them while the wb can shoot one time and recharge? it gets no special abilities and overal is a trash ship in distension

I realize you wanted to nerf it, but why nerf it so much that it is useless and obsolete? Fix it already.

[Viruk]

OK we now have a dbot which has managed to die at least twice in an under 2 hour session but without recycling the server.

Good job! Hope this means that Distension gets hosted regularly again.

Question: Is it perhaps a little oversensitive? Twice in a lightly populated session is perhaps even more unstable than it was previously.

Problem: We now have to get the bot restarted at odd times when it suicides. Distension staff are going to be absent, busy, AFK or otherwise unavailable much of the time.

Ideally dbot would somehow just stop using resources until it could detect normal data flow and then pick up the game where it left off but this might be difficult to achieve. Could we make it so dbot automatically restarts on a timer or when it detects normal data flow? Perhaps we need another bot for this?
If not then could some of us Distension veterans be given power to restart it?

If it would worsen the problem to message everyone before suiciding then perhaps we could have a special restart message to explain that the bot was forced to sacrifice itself due to lag and that it is now back. And perhaps to warn us that we shouldn't all jump back in at once or we may kill it again. (I think this happened the first time it died)

Minor issue: It seemed to not update the base graphic when manually restarted after dying in a 2 base game and then only having players for a 1 base game. I didn't look to see whether south base doors were there or not.

[Stabwound]

Okay, that's it. Since recycles continue to be a problem, that's it for Distension until something major is done. Sorry, guys, but find another hobby for awhile.

[Stabwound]

edit: qan submitted the fixes and it should be okay to test again.

So... game on! :P

[H.M.S. Stargazer]

Again huh?

[Stabwound]

Due to constant server recycles Distension will not be running until further notice. It sucks, but there have been recycles nearly twice a week during Distension and that's just not acceptable. Sorry.

[Peace_Maker]

I am what I am. Originally I picked the name because I was joining the Air Force and it had a double meaning. I am getting out next year (finally!) so I changed to wicked baser if you are not up to date on that info.

[PaulOakenfold]

Sex_Maker

[Peace_Maker]

We have kthx's approval!!! That is the final word. We should have distension all weekend. Thank you, oh thank you kthx!

[PaulOakenfold]

until Draft Tournament and then its off again.

He used to go by the name Phizey. HTH.

[kthx]

Sure, Distension all weekend for all I care, until Draft Tournament and then its off again.

[KuNi]

Also, for the weekend, there are usually weekend events hosting around 3-5pm, so there's no point in having anything scheduled around then. How about 7-10pm EDT Saturday/Sunday night (getting rid of the crappy 1-4am thing)?

The weekend should really be where the most host time is, people have a lot more time on their hands, no school or work. I think there should be more than 3 hours on the weekend, when there is four on weekdays. Maybe 7:30-12:30pm or two hosts, 5-7pm and 8:30-11:30pm

[Peace_Maker]

Yes bigger FR with more open space. The more open space the better as far as I am concerned. Who needs cover when you can thrust fast enough to dodge in open space, cover just gets in the way and gives levi/javs another target to inflict damage.