current status of the Steam project

[rothe]

Resetting unused names would be great and if there is a way of capping a player to have 5 aliases at most would be good. I doubt a new player wants a name like aznboysukdik123ty

If I may make a suggestion
2 handles your main and a alt for when you get a temp no perms that would cut back on both banning problems and squads with the same person in many throwin matches

different topic like those videos but they are a bit dated
Need two players same skill level who can dodge one another properly and shoot well hell learning to dodge bullets is half the fun you feel like neo and learning that you can shoot someone from almost anywhere with the right lead should be one of the main download points but back to the music

The current vids are cool but seriously make a music video one of us has to have those skills
I dont care what the song is but may I suggest it has a fast beat most mmo and fps players like that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq62XK558Ec

also a must is teaching new people the commands the current f1 system hasnt taught me sht in years lol though if i asked questions i guess i would know more anywhoo my 2 centz

[Turban]

i'm working on a tutorial. it's currently "live" (granted, still very incomplete and subject to change). it can be found by typing ?go publictut in the zone.

i would appreciate a second (or even a third) opinion. below some quick screenshots;

http://puu.sh/i1p27/348e596552.png
http://puu.sh/i1p3j/6cbefd946b.png
http://puu.sh/i1p4L/236f49cf57.png

the plan would be to move a new player there (all on same frequency, if several around) as spider, and they would be able to go through a tutorial course to learn the basics of the game. nothing too detailed. if it's a returning player / old player / experienced player, they can simply warp out or change ships. new players, however, likely do not know of those commands.

granted the players would still need to be properly assisted by staff members (especially true when a non-english speaking player logs in for the first time) whenever possible.

[mtine]

Tutorial looks great, but maybe you should also consider adding some action into it. Once they complete the tutorial, just throw them into arena to battle around a little with other new players (or staff if no other players around at that time) then put them in pub. Another thing worth adding would be the description of all the ships + their images. Much easier. Just a thought.

[Jessup]

Tutorial looks good Turban. Will there be doors that get unlocked with each success during it? That would be cool. Target practice would be cool too. Also I think there should be a constant open arena that is a tutorial. Name it of course ?go tutorial . Leave a welcomebot in it constantly. People will undoubtedly forget some things and want to revisit it. Looks like a decent start you have though ... nice.

[fLaReD]

what was wrong with my tutorial ((((

[Wage]

what was wrong with my tutorial ((((

rip gunmin

[Turban]

thanks to player feedback, i have futher simplified the tutorial as new players don't need to know the details of how this game works. it is now only covering the very basics, meaning how to move, use afterburners, turn, shoot, learn how to read the user interface (energy, radar), and how to use chat interface.

the tutorial becomes optional (from a new players prespective) once they have learned how to move and shoot, however they can continue to advance in the tutorial for more details.

we are limited in the bot development department, so there will be little bot interaction with this tutorial right now.

to check it out, type ?go publictut -- aiming to finish the first version today, then continue working on it when there is room for improvement.

[Turban]

i'm going to just make a separate thread for the tutorial.

steam project is going smoothly, but we could use a better trailer / tutorial. someone from hockey zone is working on one, last i heard.

[Jessup]

Metal Gear and DSB

I'm just curious. Is there a plan for these zones to reform with a steam launch? Could trench wars perhaps absorb them into our sscu server/zone or would that cause lag issues like distension did for us. It would be amazing if we had metal gear and dsb and trench wars all bundled together . Metal Gear was a lot of fun and so was DSB . It would be a shame if they can't be options for new players. I think if we could absorb them into TW it would def make us dominate. Just wondering.

[2pac]

yes, we know you are an idiot, back under your rock you go
also i think you are now the first person dumb enough to call me "power hungry", so congrats on that

Don't bring that jiggaboo behavior into this, SS will do much better without u whining.

[Turban]

I'm just curious. Is there a plan for these zones to reform with a steam launch? Could trench wars perhaps absorb them into our sscu server/zone or would that cause lag issues like distension did for us. It would be amazing if we had metal gear and dsb and trench wars all bundled together . Metal Gear was a lot of fun and so was DSB . It would be a shame if they can't be options for new players. I think if we could absorb them into TW it would def make us dominate. Just wondering.

unlikely to happen, to be honest, unless other zones show interest in such moves.

[roxxkatt]

plus it wouldnt be in their best interest, or the games best interest, if ss actually gets even a few hundred new players, as only having 1 zone would make the game stale again far more quickly

[freakmonger]

I'm just curious. Is there a plan for these zones to reform with a steam launch? Could trench wars perhaps absorb them into our sscu server/zone or would that cause lag issues like distension did for us. It would be amazing if we had metal gear and dsb and trench wars all bundled together . Metal Gear was a lot of fun and so was DSB . It would be a shame if they can't be options for new players. I think if we could absorb them into TW it would def make us dominate. Just wondering.

Metal Gear is currently up. JoWie is hosting it on the SSCJ server. We are running ASSS so I am in the process of making the zone compatible (porting the old bots to ASSS modules), but I'm also in the middle of moving households from stateside to overseas. So I wont have the time needed to complete this for awhile.

The pub arena is currently up & running.

The zone doesn't have much of a population right now, but I'm looking at options for just running the leagues (MGFL, MGDBL, etc).

[Jessup]

Oh cool , thanks for info freak, I had no idea. I'll add it to my zone list. Good news there.

[Xog]

quake got to the front page of steam when they decided to hop over to their platform

we didnt get any population boost that stayed

in the start we did, but we're just back where we were before steam

i predict that'll happen with ss

if the servers can even hold the influx of players (could even be in the 1000's and quickly taper off)

quake's infrastructure crashed on the steam launch

do we have ddos backup plans in place?