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Weekly Update
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Author:  JeffL [ Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:28 am ]
Post subject:  Weekly Update
Last week we had the mini universe reset and the real reset. Except for a rollback right before the real reset, things went pretty smoothly.

I did some more work on the ID overflow thing -- not really fixing stuff but getting the changes I didn to at least make the problem more encapsulated to also compile on the client and in our local cygwin builds.

I made it so that you can't toss more workers than are "free" - i.e. not currently working. So you can't accidentally destroy your base with a "toss all". Also ships and colonies will not buy workers who are employed.

I fixed the healing so that you can't heal yourself to death.

I rewrote the three functions dealing with trading with bases so that they are much faster (and after one accidental infinite money bug was fixed) more bug-free than the old functions. The old functions would sometimes send thousands of packets, but now it is all precalculated and only one packet is sent per transaction, with the exception of items that do not stack.

Finally Atlum figured out how to duplicate the chat hack that was annoying everyone so much. It took a little while for me to fix it, but I changed the code so it displays the purpitrators IP instead of his message, so the offender was duly banned. Displaying the IP was just a temporary thing. I'm going to change it so such messages are simply ignored, but I really wanted to ban this guy and displaying his IP was the easiest way to surely get it. He has now been banned, and just sent this message to support: "I am extreamly sory for what i did i will never do it again pleas unban me". I don't think so.
Author:  Bluejayek [ Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:32 am ]
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Good job in catching that guy Jeff. And that other stuff but mainly catching that guy :D.
Author:  DroneMaster [ Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:33 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Weekly Update
JeffL wrote:
He has now been banned, and just sent this message to support: "I am extreamly sory for what i did i will never do it again pleas unban me". I don't think so.


HAHA PWNED!!!! :lol:
Author:  FracOMac [ Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:34 am ]
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the buying code stuff means less lag right?
Author:  FracOMac [ Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:40 am ]
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i knew that, i meant lag in general
Author:  BAM5992 [ Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:42 am ]
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jeff adn admin team, you guys are t3h ub3rl337wtfomgbbgpwnzz0rz5

thanks for everyhting!
Author:  jsn0X [ Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:27 am ]
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Jeff do I get anything for helping you out with the chat hack? Or did you just ignore my message and figure it out on your own? :(
Author:  Enji [ Tue Sep 05, 2006 2:54 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Weekly Update
JeffL wrote:
and just sent this message to support: "I am extreamly sory for what i did i will never do it again pleas unban me". I don't think so.


/me points and laughs HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *cough cough* HHAAHAHAHA
Author:  Scipii [ Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:48 pm ]
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I like blaming Pixie and his personality divisions.
Author:  JeffL [ Wed Sep 06, 2006 2:50 am ]
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Yes, I think fixing the buy/sell stuff will mean less lag in general. There is still a little lag every 40 minutes when the threaded save starts up. I don't think there's much to be done about that. The save used to be every 20 minutes, but I doubled it to reduce the save lag, but it's a balance between reducing lag and reducing rollback when the server crashes. Server seems to average only about 1 crash in 5 days or so now, so the time between saves could potentially be increased some more.

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Jeff do I get anything for helping you out with the chat hack? Or did you just ignore my message and figure it out on your own?


Atlum figured out how to replicate it before you mailed support, it just took me a while to figure out how to stop it. Thank you for the help, though.
Author:  candyboy [ Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:42 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Weekly Update
JeffL wrote:
He has now been banned, and just sent this message to support: "I am extreamly sory for what i did i will never do it again pleas unban me". I don't think so.

Julian wrote:
Mutes and bans are not to be discussed on the forum in any way if you have a problem with a mute or ban please email support@starsonata.com.
:lol:
Author:  TinyTimZamboni [ Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:25 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Weekly Update
candyboy wrote:
JeffL wrote:
He has now been banned, and just sent this message to support: "I am extreamly sory for what i did i will never do it again pleas unban me". I don't think so.

Julian wrote:
Mutes and bans are not to be discussed on the forum in any way if you have a problem with a mute or ban please email support@starsonata.com.
:lol:


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