Advertising Ideas and Suggestions

[Rab]

who owns it and how much do they want for it

[Celestial Jeddak]

I heard Priitk, and 50k. Could be a lie though.. just a rumor.

[Tiny]

Is it possible to turn rumors, he said she said, and guesses into facts? Like he will sell it, he will not sell it....he wants 50k. He wont answer his door or phone calls, he hates us, he destroyed the code. Who's in charge of these kind of things?

[Supreme]

I feel like an unwated pet

[Tiny]

So no one can answer? or no one will?

[roxxkatt]

priit owns it, he is not selling it for any amount, as he doesnt own the copyrighted material made by vie
additionally, $50,000 is the amount of money it will probably take to pay someone like me to sit down and remake the game

[MegamanEXE]

priit owns it

he doesnt own the copyrighted material made by vie

Wait, what does he own and what does he not own?

And who cares about vie anyway, it died and the company that bought it died too.

[RednaZ]

Also $50,000 is the amount of money people would probably only pay someone like you to kill yourself

[Tiny]

So, Priit owns it. Has anyone approached him and said..ur game is fucking dying, no one has 50k to pay you or anyone else. Can you do something or allow someone else to do something before this game becomes useless along with the code he owns? What good is it if no one uses it. It just seems to me that these are bullshit answers because no one really knows or will actually pursue it. I will pay for crip to fly to priit's house to relieve him of it.

[Zeebu]

So, Priit owns it. Has anyone approached him and said..ur game is fucking dying, no one has 50k to pay you or anyone else. Can you do something or allow someone else to do something before this game becomes useless along with the code he owns? What good is it if no one uses it. It just seems to me that these are bullshit answers because no one really knows or will actually pursue it. I will pay for crip to fly to priit's house to relieve him of it.

looks like tiny just volunteered to start paying for the server costs. lets all thank him heartily!!!

:)

[qan]

Considering all the things we *can't* do... there are still a few things we can, while we wait for a new client to come along. (One day, it may happen ... people have tried for years, and there's a team currently working on yet another one right now, called Aphelion.)

I'd personally like to see a bunch of people get together and redo all of the game's graphics and sounds -- not in any way changing them (because then people would argue endlessly about how they should be changed), but simply making higher-quality versions of them. Distribution size is no longer a huge issue, as it was when SS was initially released. The necessity for small files is why when you bounce off a wall, it sounds like a refrigerator is dying. There's no need to have such awful, low-quality graphics and sounds anymore, because if the download size were 20MB rather than ~4MB (or ~7MB, as on getcontinuum.com -- a mystery in and of itself) people would still download it with just the same frequency. There aren't even that many graphics and sounds, so it's not like if the entire community decided to go ahead with the project, we'd even have much trouble with it, getting an entirely new and yet uncompromisingly faithful graphics/sound pack ... something that everyone could be happy with.

We could also update the installer to include an automated setup program ... something that would automatically create your first profile (most people don't expect to have to set up a name/pw before they login), and help you make choices about the game settings. Could even include a basic manual, maybe a parody of old-school paper manuals, which would demonstrate the various features in clear, simple language accompanied by line drawings and/or screenshots.


Oh, and we could contact whoever owns ssdownloads.com and tell them to fix their download PHP script, because it's been broken for quite awhile now and the site is basically useless. That's a great asset to the game -- thousands of files are hosted there that aren't hosted anywhere else -- and we have no way to access them. Anyone know who runs that? Can you get ahold of them and tell them, hey, your site's broken? I'm sure if they're still paying for hosting they'd actually want it to work.

[Raver420]

"Anyway, take care of yourselves. The ship is ready to sail, but there's always room for one more. (We can cuddle."

Yours forever,
Geoff Dugwyler
ex-qan

I never got that cuddle!

[mtine]

The necessity for small files is why when you bounce off a wall, it sounds like a refrigerator is dying.

This made me laugh, haha. Ty qan.