Please post all problems and questions pertaining to ASSS in the ASSS Questions forum.
If you find that ASSS crashes at specific times, or contains other functional problems, post them in the ASSS Bugs forum.
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• Windows Version 1.3.1
  • Binaries Only - 1.5 meg
    
  • Full with Source - 2.4meg
  
  
• Linux Version 1.3.1
  • Full with Source - 3.9 meg
    
  • Source Only - 0.5 meg

Just a message from Yarekim.

So if you happen to create lvzs with over 127 images, you may want to upgrade. Otherwise, nothing else changed.

Oh and by the way, he doesn't accept new hosting requests, naturally. :-P

Eitherway, didn't I say I'm quitting the forums?
Hmm yeah, so, if anyone will be looking for me I'll be at halo's forums or whatever.
If I'll play the game at all, I'll either be at chaos or halo.

And I probably won't bother answering your newbie questions anyway, so RTFM.

Yeah, same to you buddy!

So, there you have it:

...
...
Apparently, if you google images for SubSpace, the first thing you come about is from a Russian site display the help screen with a like to ss.vie.com.
...
Oh, and www.subspace.cc has NOTHING to do with SS.
There's also a domain called www.subspacegraphics.com but it too has NOTHING to do with SS.
...
...

That was it!

Join us again next year.

*F3-rocket*
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I think I'll start stealing news from SubSpace Times site...

We (I) are talking about the new "great deal - by first look" of google, the 100MBs free of charge email account.

To those of you who have signed in with it, or planning to, I would suggest that you do not, ever, never, corrospond with anyone on it without using PGP, at the least not untill this issue is resolved and we, the public will get some more information about the giant information hogger's plans.

As for more details about this new email plan of google known as g-mail, I'll adress you to an article over at the register.

The possibilities are truely creepy, to say in an understatement.

It does matter how this turns out, but eitherway, it won't end good, in the very least for the long run.

In an essence, this was the opening shot, and the FBI has just declared war.
Many enemies were formed to the US gov. today, and may of these foes might form alliances in the future.

Time will tell...

::burp::

Ugh, time to loose another button in the belt...

Yap.

To the general player public:
Next time, please adress a more realiable source of information for some actual facts (you can count on me or MGB for instance), before you let yourself wrongly be decieved by the such as this (april fool's or not).

Here's the plan:

1) The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini and the rest of them 'good old boys'. We will never "interfere" again.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany, South Korea and the Philippines. They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No more sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are. France would welcome them.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit. No one from a terrorist nation would be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself, don't hide here. Asylum would not ever be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers.

5) No "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.

6) The US will make a strong effort to become self sufficient energy wise. This will include developing non polluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while.

7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else.

8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere". They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides' most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if any anyway.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an island some place. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, it would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

9b) Use the buildings as replacement for the twin towers.

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer.

Now, ain't that a winner of a plan.

"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'" - Robin Williams.
___________________________

In other non-important and unrelated news:
Since I'm pretty useless, old fashioned and am only used as a tease coushin or whatever in MGB's forums, which I got quite tired of, I've decided to ban myself from them.

Funniest thing, my access code is comprised of a sentence which I have long gone now ceased to fullful.

Yes indeed, AOL's snappy new "Instant Messenger" does contain WildTangent - their "partnership" in popup advertising is part of their new "buddy games" "feature."

WildTangent is a "borderline" trojan - actually defined as "adware" and where we cut the mustard is a complicated legal thing that Nancy can explain better than I can. But legally, most of the WildTangent stuff is not "officially" a trojan except for one part.

The reasoning is this - WildTangent DOES place a working uninstaller on the control panel. If you go there to the "Add/Remove software" item and remove the "WildTangent" stuff, almost ALL of it does go away. The "WCMDMGRL.EXE" item will remain running and will not come out. This ONE piece is the actual "trojan" ... the other item detected by a few others is the "updater" for it. A fresh new one was made for AOL exclusively so THEY could provide advertising. Also, another factor is that when people go to install anything containing "WildTangent" there ***IS*** a VERY clearly stated warning of what WildTangent is and what it does from a privacy standpoint in the license agreement prior to installation. Folks don't read it though.

Unlike the "WCMDMGRL.EXE" item though, the "WCMDMGR" portion is controlled directly by AOL-IM itself and that's why the AV didn't get it at the same time - it wasn't running or TRYING to run until the firewall nabbed it first and locked access in my best estimation of what happened.

As to the registry entries, those would belong to the entire SET of WildTangent files and the "game pieces" belonging to it.

What you'll want to do (of course, ditch that AIM first) is go to your Program files folder and have a look at all the "WildTangent" subfolder. There'll also be more in the \(windows)\WT folder ... there's a lot of stuff in there. Running the "Add/Remove" from the control panel however for "WildTangent" WILL remove all this. AOL however has decided to make SURE that if you remove it, they can put it back, thus the other bit of the "surprise" ...

I would also like to remind people that, the news suggestion box, as well as the news themselves consequently, is actually not for you to use as a mean to convey people personall messages, advertise your zone or ask questions.
For that you may use the forums, it's the reason for their existance.

If I find the time to visit your zone, and I'll like it, I might plug it, but that is all upto me.

Kisses and flowers.

And a happy smack across the head for MGB.
Now I know where all those spamming slimeballs got my email from.

Go Spam Assassin server filters! They do block them all very well.

Yeah, I'm not a happy guy.
And yep, those are game boxes upthere.
Recognize the X-Com?
To the left of it is Crusader:NR, then x-wing, and many more.
To the right of it is wing commander 4, diablo 1, starcraft, freespace, fifa...
To my right is PC CRT, to my left is TV.

Hmm...yeah, this is all.

The bad boy has been caught, saddam insane is now getting the proper welcoming treatment.
I wish I still had that neat clip of hunting saddam, yeah...let's hunt saddam and shoot him in the head, lets beat the herm, anyway...
To celebrate I've produced a new banner in the "UR GAY/STFU/OWNED" spirit:

SSHQ Recent News:
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in d:\subspacehq\www\cgi-bin\newspro\news.txt on line 24

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Well, MilleniumMan&Friends's 3D SubSpace seem to have released some sort of a demo of a sort or another, so go grab it somewhere on their latest site.

On an additional, personall, note and only since I'm bored and I like jabbing Correy at times, god ain't I evil?:
As it seems, mackieman only found about the project lately?
Hats off to SSHQ news fetchers. :P

On an unrelated note, I've checked the "suggestions" box (if you notice right above the news, there's a suggest news linky-button), and it seems that some of you confuse the concept of news with that of zone propoganda or our help section of the message boards.
Please refrain from making that mistake.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/28641

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 04, @02:49PM
from the but-guys-what's-the-big-deal dept.
00420 writes "VeriSign, the administrator of the .com and .net domains, made plans to shut down its new Site Finder service Friday, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ordered the company to undo controversial changes. Of course they're not taking it down because it affected the internet, they're just doing it to keep good relations with the technical community. (Seems a little late for that doesn't it?)" The shutdown is not complete yet, though: VeriSign hasn't changed their wildcard DNS entry (64.94.110.11).

Also, incase you haven't noticed, since some days ago, if you type-in a mistyped .com or .net domain, you'll be redirected to verisign's site finder, I don't know about you, but that thing just pissing me off.
Apperantly, I wasn't the only one.

No real news...I'm bored...forgive me... =/

Long live SubSpace!

server.zip - 1,277k - Full server
subgame14.zip - 202k - Upgrade only

Anyway, BDE grouped with this company (Horizon = SilverPlatter, Horizon's DEx = Alloy(tm) P2Ptech) to make this Peer2Peer technology for their new project - www.altnet.com.
A big Peer2Peer network for sharing information, vending songs for artists and hosting MPOGs.
SubSpace was supposed to be their prime flag ship product in the last section, to prove that this tech really works.

So, even that silverplatter has bitten the bullet, I doubt that BDE (the owners of BDE own the SS rights under a cash-company called Ozaq2) are going to stop there just because of that.
What they'll do with SS from there...well, this is a whole another unknown issue and your guess is as good as mine.

But getting all excited over Horizon/SP filing chapter 11, is hardly justified.
Because they just created the networking technology, if you will, part of "SS2", they were not developing the actual game.
And thus, I do not see a reason for them to make a big impact, as I'm sure BDE will rush to grab the tech, develop it further to completion, and the game itself is probably still being in continued development by whichever section of BDE which was handling it so far.

For those that make programs for lvz's, if the uncompressed size and compressed size are equal, then you can skip the uncompression. Also when compressing, if the compressed size larger than uncompressed data, you can set the uncompressed data in there, and have the two size values set to each other. You cannot do that with the CLV2 section yet though, which is a bug in continuum where it doesn't check if already uncompressed.

server.zip - 1.3 meg
subgame13.zip - 582 k

Continuum 0.38pr5 is now available for public testing. It is downloadable from Sonera site:
http://subspace.edome.net/files/ContinuumSetup038pr5.exe
This time it is full install package. If everything goes well, 0.38 final will be released next week.

lvztoolkit.zip - 138k

Password recovery by e-mail feature has been added to SSC database server. Feature will be rolled out in 2 phases:

1. Setting e-mail address phase, starting from January 29 During this time users are able to set their e-mail address by issuing command ?setemail email@add.ress. Users who haven't set e-mail address using that command will notification message to set it when they log in.

This phase will last 2-4 weeks.
NOTE: New accounts that are created don't get that question, as e-mail address is also asked by Continuum when new user is created.

If, and if yes, under what circumstances ?setemail will be available after end of this phase is not decided yet.

2. Normal operation
When user loses password for some name, he can log in using different name and ussue command ?lostpassword playername which causes new randomly-generated temporary password to be sent to e-mail address associated with the user name. Regular (original) password for that user will still work, new password is additional password, player use to log in and change regular password. Temporary password is valid for 24h.

PriitK

A player has been stealing user passwords using MSIE security holes. As far as I've gathered currently he was going around in several zones, telling people to check web site http://bcproductions.hypermart.net. Everybody who visited that site with MSIE, got their c:\program files\continuum\profile.dat file silently uploaded to that site.

I [PriitK] fell into that too, but as I don't keep any sysop, bang, billing passwords in profile, no damage was done. Sigh, it is really time to raplace MSIE with something more secure :( More info about unpatched IE security holes:
http://www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched/

Note about old board: I plan on having it viewable for another month (the time I have it set to going into archive mode for the last years), but you cannot post anything. The main page will redirect you over to the new forums if you don't click on a link in 20 seconds, enough time for those who don't know where to click to go to new site, and enough time for someone to check back on an old message. After a month, the cgi itself will be replaced with a redirecting script to the new forums, since I know a bunch of websites like to link directly to the cgi itself.

Along with build 23 are assurances that previous complaints and crashes have been alleviated or at least explained in the F.A.Q.

+ Multiple plugins can be loaded on a single bot.
+ Glitches, which had plagued the earlier builds, are now gone.
+ There is a large selection of plugins; I am actively making new ones based on demand.
+ Entirely open-sourced. You may request plugin source code by e-mail

Visit http://venus.spaceports.com/~catid/

SSX now has a website, you can reach it in here.
It is only just started to build up, so don't expect much and there are broken links.
Hopefully with time, it shall grow.
Though I doubt xalimar will be the one to constantly update it (he's a very bussy man), so if you think you can contribute, you might wish to apply to staff, though I suggest you gather a few recommandations first, xali won't rush to hire people on the fly like most zones are getting their staff (full of dum newbs&petty kids, HAR!).

Hope you all had a nice creamy cake and a day off to relax.
May there be many more to come.

No, it isn't a mistype of the work ass (sorry Shanky), but something else; A Small Subspace Server. I've been getting plenty of emails in the last while about people wanting to make their own servers, but not having enough knowledge or the required skills for it that I'll post a little update. Please don't send me emails with requests or wanting to help.

Asss is a new server that was created by someone in SubSpace. I won't say his name right now, otherwise he would get a flood of messages/emails like I know I will. :( It was started a while back as a linux server, but I helped with it so it compiles for both linux and windows. It does not support any client except VIE as of yet, though it will support continuum in the future, hopefully. We do have a server-side bot system thought up, and a chat-only public protocol in the works. No, we will not make a *(your name here) command for you that lets you kill everyone instantly, you can make a server-side bot later that can do that for you.

The only thing I would need of public help would be just this. I need a copy of the .lib, the .dll, and any required .h's for making a program to use Berkeley's DB library, version 1.85. I know of a copy at Nightmare.com, but have yet to have any luck, or others, with compiling it. If you can get a copy of this compiled into a .lib, a .dll, and any required .h's to be able to use it, send it along to me at mgb@minegoboom.com.

Sorry, I have been rather busy with work and done only needed maintenance tasks for the Subspace during last months and this situatation is likely to continue at least for a month.

My comments about the suggestions:
1. 45 degree wall angles -- easily doable. I'll probably make it more general in the way that instead of current fixed tile number system where tile properties are fixed with tile number (ie tile #171 is safe zone, #172 is goal, #176-191 are fly under, etc) level will have additional piece of information called "tile properties" where you can define all kinds of parameters for all the tiles (0-255). Properties for a tile would include:
* special tile functions: safe zone, goal, door, etc
* tile type solid or passable
* layer for that tile, fly over, fly under, etc
* color it is shown on radar
* extra stuff like tiles that doesn't allow antiwarp, tiles that doesn't allow mines, etc
* tile angle
* etc

2. Support for 16 or whatever bit graphics is easy too but there are several problem with that:
* main problem: lack of graphics artists contributing to Subspace. I mean we have searched for people to re-do Continuum graphics, but haven't found nobody, at least nobody good. And beeing good when doing graphics is more important than number of colors.
* download size for lvl and lvz-s will go up. there is already some whining about it

3. Also easy from programming perspective, only problem for users finding free key combinations for it :)

Suggestion #3 was for strafing, ie: going left/right without turning

4. It makes sense only if you are viewing game board at the angle just like in Infantry. And what is the point to clone Infantry, go play it at Sony online if you like it :)

Suggestion was to have vertical bouncing bombs, such as with some of infantry's weapons

PriitK

So, for you future map makers/graphical artists, come help us :) We need a nice map editor to support abilities to change tile types around (i believe someone is making a new map editor also, called Continuum Level Editor), and we need new, pretty 16bit color graphics. Mmm.. more shades of gray..

Woot! I don't lag anymore...

Added proxy detection to /*einfo. Proxy is detected for Continuum 0.37 and later clients. You need to set server IP address in server.ini [Misc] ServerIP for it to work.
* Undetermined - SS 1.3x or Continuum 0.36 clients
* SOCKS5 proxy - User is using Continuum's built in SOCKS5 proxy
* Using proxy at localhost - player is using proxy ran in same machine as Continuum client. There is no other reason to do so than monitoring or tampering with packet stream
* Using custom proxy - player is using custom proxy. Suspect cheating.
* Using NAT - player is using router or firewall doing NAT translation
* Not using proxy - no proxy was detected between client and server

Fixed timer desync and slow FPS sysop messages. Before "Unknown interity violation" was displayed

New cfg variable: Misc:StartInSpec - if set, players entering arena are always put to spectator mode

New server.ini variable: Misc:ForceContinuumOnly - if set server will ignore ContinuumOnly variable is all cfg files and require Continuum in all arenas

New command: *objset +/-(object id),+/-(object id0,... - sets state of listed map/screen objects. +(object id) shows object and -(object id) hides it. For example "*objset +1,-20,+13" shows objects 1 and 13 and hides object 20.
Command is meant to replace *objon and *objoff commands and it can be sent to player privately or to whole arena. Command is meant for humans to use, for bots there is special packet for toggling objects states which is much more efficient. See BuildLevel documentation for more info about the objects. [Continuum 0.37+]

PriitK

All prereleases have NO security checks in them. This means that you cannot use any prereleases as a subgame continuum loader.

In other words, the only zone you can connect to without having names in VIP or being a Smod/Sysop is the SSCU Continuum testing zone.

Thanks to the Smod in 17th Parallel for finding this bug in the program. Best of luck to the programmers out there hopefully working on a nicer .lvz maker.

Its on all (or most of) the current Directory servers so you have no excuse! check it out

The Channel is "#ShankyHelp" on Dalnet, a list of Dalnet Servers and a Chat Applet can be found at www.dal.net

If you do not have an IRC Client yet you could download mIRC at www.mirc.com or just use the Chat Applet on the Dalnet Website.

The above file is the original example ini file created by priitk for the beta testers to learn from. This file can give you a hint at what .lvz's can do with the next version of continuum.

Still no release date, since when one problem is fixed, 2 more come up, but it seems as if .37 is getting pretty close to being finished..

Moral of this story: Yank out those crappy built-in speakers if your hosting stuff in a building like that. :)

A new version has been update, in both HTML and TXT format. The old version is still there, incase you want to make fun of my horrible grammer and spelling errors when I was a LOT younger.

BTW: Great Job Stil :)

Also, ?message and ?messages have been finnally officially released. For info on how to use it, look in the commands page under the list of ? commands, it is the last two in the list, right above the sysop commands.

SSAwards

-MnM

Just informing you about a totally unique SS experience. Its the T3 Racing Zone. It has been up and running for about a month now. As the name says it is a totally racing only zone. I'm currently looking for racers and ppl to help with adding more racing maps...full credit will be given for them :)

Just come try your hand at some F1 style racing :)

to check it out goto http://www.subspacehq.com/continuumcentral

Sorry, but, LOL! VIE died out, and twister ran rampant even when there was a local server hosting it.. think about peer to peer.. hell, the p2p software out now still is being hacked a lot and designed to send viruses to anyone and everyone.. think about subspace, peer to peer, with half the people running 56k connections (or less)... Oh well.. just a neat little note. We ask for help from them for 2+ yrs, finnally after we have our own client, they contact us for assistance..

But to get those old tymers back I am writing this news to reach out to all those SDB players!!!

Come check it out!!!

ExSU Space Duck Battle (SSWC)

P.S : Primetime ammount of peeps is 6:00 PM (16 peeps)

Btw, this site has gotten 0 re-designed planned for it. And I doubt it ever will...

Hopefully soon to be ExST Unreal Realm.

Still Not interested?...tell u what, too show u
the kinda guy I am here is what I will give u
just for shoing your face and bringing a friend
or two:

A) Bring 5 new players to the zone and get:
- 15 Minutes of Super, Proximity and 500 bounty

B) Bring 10 new players to the zone and get:
- Everything listed in Slot "A" x2 (times 2)
+ A Energy Account, so u can view Enemies Energy

C) Bring 20 New players to the Zone and get:
- Everything listed in Slot "A" x4 (times 4)
+ A Energy Account, So u can view Enemies Energy
+ A V.I.P. Account, Very Important People

And for the next 5 New players you bring to the Zone u will get an additional Slot "A" Reward.

--w0rLd Sk8eR!? (owner of DSL Sk8eR w0rLd)

heheh, seeya

jsb
Owner of SFSS Warzone Turf

NOTE: The dirserver will only remove the zone password once ALL zones with that starting name are removed. So if 'LiK Speed' pops in while 'LiK Chaos' is there, and the chaos one leaves, the password for 'LiK' is still '2'.

Have your own idea for a good How To? Just type it up with steps in a text file, and send it over!

Problem: FPS in Continuum 0.36 is much worse than in 0.35
Cause: Most likely cause it that there are some troubleshooting options enabled in advanced options
Fix: Go to Options -> Advanced options and clear all checkboxes. Note that best FPS is synchronized you your monitor refresh rate, typically 60-85 (you can set it in profile too). Anything below that is not good and anything above that is not good either

PriitK

As a little reward (or something), I included into the REAL subgame11 zips continuum.exe (renamed to subspace.exe) and upgrade.exe into nice little \version1\ folders so it is even easier to upgrade your subgames to newest version and get continuum upgraded too. The only problem with this is fatter d/ls (well, not too bad)...

[Misc]
NoFlagRewardLimit=

• Modified /*watchgreen to show negative prizes
  
• New cfg variable: Spectator:HideFlags. When set dropped flags are not shown to spectators. [Continuum 0.36+]
  
• New cfg variable: Spectator:NoXRadar. When set spectators won't have X-Radar [Continuum 0.36+]
  
• New cfg variable: Bullet:ExactDamage. When set bullet damage is exact, not random [Continuum 0.36+]
  
• New cfg variable: Misc:SlowFrameRate. Specifies minimum frame rate for client. When frame rate falls below specified rate for some time, client is disconnected. 0 - disable check, maximum is 35 [Continuum 0.36+]
  
• New cfg variable: [ship]:SeeBombLevel. 1=see all bombs on radar, 2=see bombs greater than level 1 on radar, 3=see bombs greater than level 3 on radar, 0 = no bombs are shown on radar [Continuum 0.36+]
  
• New cfg variable: [ship]:DisableFastShooting. When set firing bullets, bombs and thors is disabled when using afterburner [Continuum 0.36+]
  
• Fixed a bug in Continuum communcation protocol that caused connection to get stuck infrequently
  
• Added confirmation message to /*warn command

Current FAQs up at the time of this news post:

How to Install Continuum?

How to disable the VIE Client?

Players can use % sounds, is this a bug?

Why there is a lot of 'Security checksum not returned' errors?

Why there is a lot of 'Unknown integrity violation' errors and what are they?

For those who still dont know what Continuum is, Continuum is a new Version of the Subspace Client written by PriitK and Mr. Ekted.

Continuum was written to get rid of Cheaters, Fix current Bugs in the old Client and to be able to Patch all New Cheats and Bugs as soon as they are Found and also Continuum has many new features.

Soon Continuum will be forced on all Servers so you wont be able to use the Old Subspace Client (Why would you want to use that buggy crap anyway? ;) )

Continuum Full Version Download:

Sorry about this..

clienupgrade.zip - 43k

If you are Sysop or Host of a Zone add that Directory Server in the Server.ini and also make sure you have these Directory Servers:

sscentral.ds98.com
sscentral.subspace.net
sscentral.subspacehq.com

Will a few people test this on LAN and see how it does?

Download now: DirServer

sscentral.subspace.net
and
sscentral.ds98.com

are currently online
i recommend you to use ds98.com because all zones are on it and the "freeze bug" has been Fixed :)

To: twban@ss.dc.ee
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 00:43
Subject: Say your prayers.

I don't know if it's you, the tw leaders or whatever it may be, but your staff has costed me over $700 dollars. Guess what, "Priitk", I am going to literally take money from you. I am doing this with my lawyer, John A. Smiths. We are suing for software virus. You see you've caused my computer to crash unexpectedly when I joined your Trench Wars, I don't know how it happened, but until you prove that it isn't your fault, you're going to pay. Or, you can simply unban me from trench wars and will all be settled.

Don't ask me how entering trench wars can do (1)crash your computer, (2) costs you $700 to fix it, (3) give you a virus, and (4) get banned from the zone you entered. Man, I know priitk has been fixing the client and server, but this is some advance stuff he is working on now... I also like the little quote talking about how your guilty until proven innocent. New US laws going into place here :)

Little note to programmers: If anyone could, would someone make a program to decode .scr files in combo with the billing user.dat files, so private-run zones could get stats for this? I myself have made a little mini script to combind logs from a bot recording player's names/squads/userids and pro league's .scr file to make a little database for them, but I'm sure others would like a more user-friendly method.

Only few new commands. *einfo shows client, *flags for mod, and /*greeninfo for mods. More info on them in the commands page.

BTW: Commands page WILL be updating every so often with new Continuum commands. These commands will be shown in the '?' command section near its bottom. Just to give you guys a hint.. :)

The answers to all the questions on the quiz that the people who applied for the positions will be posted inside the FAQ very soon. BTW, to those who have looked, I fixed the faq section so now it will be a nicer layout with a search ability inside of it. Need an answer to a question, search FAQ page or the old message board posts.

New staff members are the bottom two of the staff page (also linked now in the bottom of all pages on server help).

Deadlyforce1

Hope Most of you sysops will pay attention to this message :)

--MnM{333}

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Also its Possible to Crash a Zone with Subarena Owner Ship.

Set "CustomArenaMode=4" in your Server.ini and you dont have to worry about any one stealing or crashing your Zone.

--Snark

"It is going to be tested/relrease when I find time to finish it. Haven't been able to work on it for few months..."

Due to a big bug exploited a few days ago to SSC zones, someone pissed off priitk, and now we have subgame 1.34.8.

New features:
-Fixed bugs for different hack attackes.
-Sysop public *lag command will now tell everyone's average lag (good for getting a bot to auto-spec laggers, hint hint someone).
-?getnews only works while your in spec now. No more free lag.

Also, some other filler news since this deals with servers (somewhat): ?listban will have a new max limit of how far back it could look (was 100, but has been known to lag subgame-billing connection, new limit so far unknown, but probably 50 or 25).

Another useless tidbit, specs watching a player will see that player's team's decoys on radar (and their name color) correctly as if they were on that freq. No more specing someone and seeing blue decoys fly out of them.

You can Download it at http://ss.clayjar.com

If anyone is looking for a zone host, please contact me on my ICQ 1530097 or email me (mikpel@sympatico.ca) or talk to me in SSCE USD Annihilation Thank You...Gemini Dream

Space Duck Battle finally got new very fast server, if you can't remeber how was it to play SDB without lag or if you just wanna play in best zone in ss, go in "Find Servers"-->"SScenteral.vie.co.uk" and find WIZ Space Duck Battle in your hands and you're able to play SDB again!

If you dont have much experience with those Settings then check out this Proggi so you dont mess up the Ship Settings!

It only Checks the Ship Settings for now so you have to wait till Louis makes an better Version
(I hope he does) wich Checks other Settings wich can cause Bugs too

You can get it here:
http://www.subspace.net/down/cfgcheck.zip

Also, with the server.zip and subgame7.zip, I put in a better template.sss with a few more old VIE lines added to it. Have fun with fastbombing detection (which is buggy as Ii already know)!

The reason we removed SDB is simple. It doesn't have to do with freedom of speech, or democracy, or any other high minded philosophies. SSC stops cheating by keeping the server software secure. SDB allowed debugging of the software, therefor they were removed.

We do not control subspace or anything else of that nature. SDB is welcome to get hosted elsewhere; it still possesses the right to exist. It *has* waved the right to access to our secure server software however. SDB abused the SSC and we took the only step we could to stop the abuse.

Anyone who has some good elim types (good svs settings with map, or a bot to do it all), come tell/send me 'em, and you maybe able to run your event. Need some good events, should be SVS or close to it type settings.

"I could run a ss server on my car stereo!"

PS> Spell checker for message board going to be a while, working on REAL-TIME scores for all of SubSpace league zones. Any leagues (other than pro/am, they the first) that are using bots and want to get your scores posted real-time on Shanky.com give me an email. BTW: This real-time scores will give way to the Fantasy SubSpace, as it will also update that too whenever I finish it.

As for news Catid has announced the release of his new bot, the MERVBot.
This bot is a multi-purpose bot, including many functions in it.
If there's a feature you want in the bot please email Catid.
The bot resides at catid's site where it can be downloaded from.

P.S. MGB
Don't forget to add catid to the little bots section upstairs.
And I'll need that spell checker :D

If you have any problems not solved on the message board, then you can e-mail me at i88gerbils@yahoo.com and i will try my best to help your server problems out. My primary e-mail, gerbil@aswz.com is currently unavailable for me to check so make sure you send these things to the alternate e-mail address shown.

See ya,

-i88gerbils

?squad (player name) = tells you what squad they are currently in
?find (player name) = tells you what zone they are in or not online

For the name, it HAS to have a first name of 2 letters or longer, and a last name of 2 letters or longer. For the email, it HAS to have a @ and a . in it. If you don't want to really fill it in, put in John Doe with email john@doe.com.

If you don't put this in correctly, you may lose your score, and any squad ownership (this is an error) you have. Please fill it in, even if not truthfully.

I suggest putting in a real email address you could check, since the ONLY time it would be used is whenever the guys at the billing (BD Vine) is doing the every-six-month-cleaning of the billing to remove old unused names or squads, if it has an email, they will email BEFORE the name/squad is removed. If get a reply back, won't remove. If no reply within 7 days, will be removed.

Also about the chats. You get up to 10 (IE: ?chat=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10), but the 10th chat is a listen only channel. Right now ;*; will only take the first digit after the first ;. So ;10; WILL send to chat channel 1. ;0; won't do anything either. So whatever chat is in #10, you can only hear the chat, but cannot reply back to it. They are trying to fix it, and maybe get chats up to an unlimited number, but thats how it is now.

Yes, everytime you enter a zone, whatever case you are currently using WILL be the case you will have in the zone. Priitk made the bot use not the name sorted in billing, but the one sent to billing for the zone data. Now you can finnaly case your name how you want it.

Also the score resets will now be almost instantly. Priitk designed a feature so now it only needs 1 billing recycle. So in 5 mins tops, all scores can be reseted.

The billing ops (all 5 or so of them that have the ?login, not bang ops) will be able to change names/squads data while in the zone. They havn't made a set rule for how they will follow for this, but soon they will be able to quickly change access for things like setting a name to a squad and giving him ownership of that squad or changing a squad's case. More on this later when they figure the best way to have rules to do this.

Warning to people, if you have to fill out that form more than once, you have an errored name. Just email me the name your using for it, and I'll try to get that fixed.

If you don't want to fill out the form, just put something like "hi" and "hi@aol.com". If you want to fill it out, go ahead. Only requires a name and email.

NOTE: Some 'good' things that comes of this is that you are now allowed more than 5 chats. Max chat channels is 10. Also, the billing WILL allow you to have different case names currently (if your name used to have all caps and you can login with all lowercase, etc).

So what I'm suggesting is to make a CGI so on the front page (index.html) above the news, it would have a little info about the bot makers, a headline for them, and a page for more information about that headline. Kind of like what I have running for my Fantasy SubSpace over at SS Impact. If you, the bot creators, would like to be posting info about your bots there in a header saying what step of creations your on, lastest releases, etc, just email me at murphyj@cvn.net.

Things I would need from you if you are willing to do this:

To download update (subgame2.exe and the fix.dll, also includes that .5 template.sss), click here.

To download full server software, click here.

If you want to suggest a change to subspace, not the descriptions of the template, please do not use that form. Use this one for it.

--Snark

Thanx for the many emails and messages posted on the board, but if your suggestion hasn't be created yet, please re-post it here so I can see all the suggestions in one spot. Thank you.

Within the next couple of weeks the sscx servers will be coming down for a couple of hours and will come back up with new ips. This is happening because they are physically moving to a new building.. I don't know exactly when this will be right now but it will most likely happen sometime in the morning hours on a weekday.. probably between 9am-11am..

sscentral.gigaparts.net is now DOWN. There were some security compromises on our network and the admin has ordered all non-necessary programs to be halted.

Please spread the word.

- Super.Fly

Download List

PS> Just want to say I have the download stats url listed on top of the download page. Almost 1000 server.zip downloads (probly half are repeats though).

Download List

PS> Keep the check cheater setting in .ini set to 1. I can't say what exactly it does, since cheaters probly read my site too, but it will now detect almost EVERY type of cheating by twister into the *log and also red messages to sysops.

Also as a side note, if you are a sysop of a zone, and you have FTP access to your zone, and want me to change your subgame over, just icq me (7169673) or find me in ?chat=ssx in subspace. I'll be happy to do it for you, since I'm probly going to do it for others anyways...

DOWNLOAD that program if you are anywhere close to ever using lvl's or settings. That program is a BIG help to a mapper or settings person. Have a .lvl, but you want to have a pretty text or drawing added to it? Well, SSME sucks at that, so use fact to convert to a huge .bmp (each pixel = 1 tile on .lvl). Then, use text or draw your pretty image you want on the radar, save, then convert to .lvl. Even saves what tiles you used, but you'll have to import your old tileset back in.

Have a .set you want into .cfg for your zone? Have a server.cfg but can only ?setsettings server.set your settings up? FACTs does that too, converts to and from.

Trust me, FACTs is a small program that you will love!

Also has important information about if you use it in some zones, you can be banned.

If you are good with making page layouts, and can get the colors of the text and everything to look nice, and you work for free (will give stuff other than $$ maybe), I need your help. The Seasonal fantasy needs to have text images, and the layout needs to be more 'flexable'.

If you are interseted, email me at murphyj@cvn.net.

As a side note: DO NOT USE ANY BOTS IN LEAGUES! Unless your an admin/ref and have been approved, if you do use bots in leagues, and some other zones (think alpha and chaos also like this), you WILL BE BANNED. The sysops of a lot of zones do not want users to use bots in their zones. Bots like the one that hits home rapidly will get you banned. I suggest you don't use this type of things in zones. First ask a mod or smod or sysop, and see if they would allow it.

Unless the news of the zone says they allow bots, don't use them in any SSC zone without permission. I don't want to see hunderds of people getting banned due to using bots.

As i've been saying for last month(s), i've been working on a large CGI project that will fantasize both SubSpace and Infantry Leagues, like Smallworld.com has done for real sports. Since they won't give me their cgis, or create a new page for ss/infantry, i'm making my own with suggests from players. To tell truth, i havn't done very much to the cgi in a while, but i worked on one sub-part of it, the Playoffs, since Pro League getting there now. (I'm a ref there, might as well do something)

If you like pro league, or want to try and randomly guess matchs to win prizes, go to here to go to login page, and click in that text area the link to create a new player.

A worthy note, all *get/*put commands (not counting the two smod ones for permit and mod texts) have been removed. Now you use *get/put/delfile (filename) to do those things, also allowing you to get those logs and subarena settings.

• New .cfg variables:
  
  • Misc:MaxPlayers. Overrides server.ini's Arena:ArenaMaxPlayers variable for a spawn.
    
  • Misc:GreetMessage. It is sent to player when s/he enters spawn which will appear exactly like a *arena, but only sent to them.
    
  • Misc:PeriodicMessage0, Misc:PeriodicMessage1, Misc:PeriodicMessage2, Misc:PeriodicMessage3, Misc:PeriodicMessage4. Must be set like: 'period' 'delay' [*]'text'
    If set and players are in spawn s starting with * are sent out as zone messages and without * as arena messages. are in minutes, indicates when first message is sent after arena creation.
    
    • Examples:
      
      • [Misc] PeriodicMessage0=6000 3000 If you see a cheater, report him by ?cheater. Will display 'If you...?cheater' every minute, starting it 30 secs after the arena is create (like after someone does a ?go blah, and no one is there).
        
      • [Misc] PeriodicMessage2=6000 3000 *If you see a cheater, report him by ?cheater. Will do same as before, but will do it like *zone, not like before where would be only arena.

• Server.ini settings:
  
  • Misc:ShipTypeSwitchResetPeriod. If set non-zero player shipchange counters are reset in given period. It allows to set Security:MaxShipTypeSwitchCount low to kick out players that use ship changes to get good configuration or spawning spot.

• New Commands:
  
  • *watchgreen - (private only, mod+ access) - Will message you every green that player gets at that time until you leave or turn it off.
    
  • *einfo - (private) - Displays player billing user id and screen resolution. Good when trying to get player's ?userid#.
    
  • *packetloss - (private, mod+) - Displays player packetloss.
    
  • ?lag - (everyone can do) - Displays ping and packetloss.
    
  • *getfile, *putfile and *delfile - (public only, sysop) - Allow sysop to get/put/delete files from server directory. exe, com, dll, bat and cmd files are offlimits. NOTE: Does NOT allow you to do anything to a player's system, only to server.
    
  • *listban - (public, mod+) - Lists all active /*kill bans with machine id, time in seconds since ban was made, ban length in seconds.
    
  • *removeban 'machineid' - (public, mod+) -Removes a /*kill 'minutes' ban

• Following commands were removed:
  
  • *get/putsysoplist, *get/putsmodlist,
    *get/putnews, *get/putobscene.

In other news, there is also a good chance (hears with the good chances again) that Harmless Games maybe owning subspace soon. Good or bad, i think it will increase the amount of players (yeh! maybe more than 5 people will come to Slayfest!). If this does happen, both Infantry and Subspace will have a combinded billing servers avaliable. Course, their will always be other billing servers, but the fact your ?chats can have >5 chats and can spam those infantry players at the same time always good.

If that does happen, Harmless owning SS, SubSpace will be getting a new version out. It would be unknown, but hopefully a chance (chance apon chances alot now a days) that this new version will also be with subgame too, so it would be public. If not, i surely hope their is the chance that it, new subspace, would work with older one?

Hmm.. all these chances... well.. what the hell would new subspace version be? Already have 1.34, and 1.35... there was the 2.00 bad hack one out... hmm... maybe subspace 1.36? 1.5? 3? Oh well... be funny with all these #.##'s out :P

I'm very sorry all whole downloaded server.zip to find this out, but the settings only work well if everyone sysop or in offline mode. Sorry.

SlamBall is finally open for public. Thanks to mariachi and his gameserver in Alaska, we are now being hosted on SSIA, which stands for Subspace Internet Alaska game server. So come and visit this zone! Slamball is a brand new powerball/paintball kind of zone, with unique settings and concepts. Dueling there is about as challenging as balling, for the duelers amongst you. Check it out for yourself! More information at http://subspace.ds98.com/slamball.

More info about it in the .zip, FAQ page for SubGame2, or Commands page.

"Client sends '?packetloss' text to server and server responds with 'PACKET LOSS ServerToYou...' text..."

And that extra text will have slow packets. The only way right now to see it is in *info, but not everyone has smod/sysop everywhere.

Also, i will be looking for a few nice smart people to help with the FAQs/news/message boards. If you think you can help people with Infantry errors and whatnots, email me at murphyj@cvn.net.

ISH is linked at http://www.shanky.com/server/infantry/index.html. Go there, suggest some stuff, ask questions, or look at my suggests for how Harmless Games should be able to allow players to create their own zones without them [Harmless] losing money to people playing in non-them zones.

Currently, there are votes so far. Go to the vote page to see who is #1.

I am currently in the process of making a Fanasty Subspace cgi program, simmilar to Smallworld's games. It isn't done, but i would like to have a good idea of how many people would like to play this game. It will be very simmilar (with fake money, buy players, etc) but instead of those crappy baseball (and now football) games, it will be SS Pro League Fanasty stuff. :) I have asked Ghost Ship about getting the stats from games, and it will be possible. The fanasty game will be free, but i'll have some ads for you guys to click on so you can get free fake money for the games (and me get some $$$ to maybe start paying for shanky.com).

Well, enough talking about it. You can post suggestions, and other info at http://www.shanky.com/cgi-bin/impact/signup.cgi. Please answer truthfully, and i don't want 50 post from one person, since it will auto-ignore posts from same IP address (first 3 sections, so ignore whole ISPs) after 10 posts, so don't try.

To view the image of him attached to me while on a different freq, click here to view it. And i swear, this isn't something fake. If you want to see this happen again, just get me and SHaDoW_STaLKeR- together in the same arena and we'll show you. Maybe do a freak show during this weekend's slayfest on saturday in SCF at 8pm. (BTW, after this pick was taken, i flew out of the safty and killed my turret and got points for it. hehe, how many of you guys can do that?)

But for now, i can't really talk about some things. One i can talk about is the German SS. sscentral.gamesonline.de has told us to remove others zone listings from their database. Since they have legally gained access to sell SS to their country and are charging money for it, they don't want freebees like us to take their play database away. So, please remove your zone listings from their database.

Also, another thing is that they so far don't want the server software getting out more than it has so far. I'm trying to prove that this has been helpful, and should still be distributed like the SS Crack is. But if this doesn't work, i'm going to try and get a zone on SSC to be a zone where anyone could go to their own subarena, and make a zone and upload maps.

More info as it comes out...

So far, everything is working except the Set User Preferances. I just need to get the cookies working with that and everything will be perfect. Also, since i now have a news script with some good features, i will be looking for some people to help post news. If you would like to, email me at murphyj@cvn.net.

And a good feature that is on here is the suggest news. Anyone can suggest news... just click on that link, fill in the information, and hit the button. Then one of the admins (so far, only me) will be able to read that, and post it if it is true.