Distension is back!!!

[TagMor]

in CZ cheese zone, soon to be moved to CZ distension.

[Dexter]

in CZ cheese zone, soon to be moved to CZ distension.

what? he re-coded it in C already?

[Zeebu]

now that its no longer in tw i wish it good luck. (not sarcasm)

i thought it was a fairly neat thing but the drawbacks of it were too taxing on the current way the rest of tw was set up (the crashes) as well as being a distraction to what i think tw should be (my opinion).

but, like i said. good luck, i hope it works out

[jngy slate]

I'll start playing next month or so

[roxxkatt]

woah i was just testing it, its still not finished...


fun fact: it took 4 days and 4000 lines of code in C to almost completely do what took qan 2 years and 14000 lines of code to do in java.

[roxxkatt]

if anyone cares about this at all, do ?chat=distension sometime.

as there was a
http://www.trenchwars.org/distension/
there is now a
http://cz.cz.sshq.net/distension/
as well.
note: both have a 20-30s load time if there are ships with no players for some reason.

[Crescent Seal]

Trench Wars Lancaster Division (TWLaD)

Lsfjsl

[jngy slate]

Wow nice job. I wonder why he coded it in Java to begin with, Java is known to be slow. And this type of application requires constant requests from players.

[kthx]

I still wish it failure, but it is only fitting that the zone that stole everything it has right now also tries to make a comeback from a game taken from someone elses good idea.


I hope i fails, and i am sure your coding is terrible so it will.

[Dexter]

are you doing it just structurally?

or using object oriented too?

[Dexter]

Wow nice job. I wonder why he coded it in Java to begin with, Java is known to be slow. And this type of application requires constant requests from players.

are you kidding?

Java is the best language to code OO programs in my opinion, really well organized..

if something is slow in a software, the problem basically depends on how it was designed and organized (design patterns) -
also if you're using the best search-algorythm, insertions etc if the problem is considerably "big";
a complexity analysis of algorithms. (thats why heapsort, selectionsort, quicksort, mergesort and others are around the compsci's theories)

it is not about the language lol

:wub:

hehe sorry if i'm being silly, just don't say that about java! @#!#$#234342!#!

[jngy slate]

Java is great, coding in it is so easy because everything is generalized. But you don't agree it's slow? In comparison a Java program that has the same functionality as a C program will run considerably slower. Java is great portability tho. A program like a bot that may take thousands of requests a minute and has to constantly check values in a database needs to be as optimized as it can be.

[Stabwound]

I'm not even going to get into the C vs Java thing because it's a moot point. The botcore TW uses is written in java so qan had no choice.

fun fact: it took 4 days and 4000 lines of code in C to almost completely do what took qan 2 years and 26000 lines of code to do in java.

Well, for one thing you're exaggerating badly because distensionbot.java is a total of 14228 lines which includes massive amounts of commented out stuff. I think it's more like 10000 counting just the code. Not to mention that qan went into it not really knowing what he was doing, having to make the ship settings, abilities, adding things onto the bot as time went on, etc. It's a bit easier if you know exactly what you're doing and just have to translate it. Also, I hope your coding skills have improved in the past year because I saw what you "wrote" for the original DistensionBot...

I don't think I'll be taking part if any of this since it's not SSC at this point. I think this will have problems getting anywhere unless you get into SSC. Good luck, though... Distension was a good game and it's a shame that it was abandoned by qan.

[roxxkatt]

was a ballpark figure, so i went back and looked, and it is indeed 14000.
fixed

[roxxkatt]

as long as this is here, would anyone happen to have logs of distension preferably from start to end?

good: round start -> round end
better: bot load -> bot unload