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Drama / Re: WRB852- love, I've had it, and you never will!

« on: April 09, 2010, 05:57:44 PM »

There would be nothing to post about. He's already gotten over it by now.

Yeah, you have to pretend he hasn't, and he'll pretend he hasn't. It's how the game works.

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Drama / Re: WRB852- love, I've had it, and you never will!

« on: April 09, 2010, 05:55:51 PM »

Fun idea: Pretend there aren't 45 pages of replies and start the entire thread over!

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Modification Help / Re: I've got a new weapon coming up :)

« on: April 09, 2010, 03:43:16 PM »

It's still going to be a gun that has absolutely no effect unless you convince the client to go and download an add-on and then rejoin your server so they can see your hilarious fake bluescreen.

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Modification Help / Re: I've got a new weapon coming up :)

« on: April 09, 2010, 03:13:41 PM »

And people who don't want to be affected by this weapon just remove the script? That gives a pretty unfair advantage in a game.

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Help / Re: Save files are corrupted

« on: April 09, 2010, 02:15:29 PM »

Post an example save file for people to look at.

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Off Topic / Re: New PC

« on: April 09, 2010, 02:06:52 PM »

Ok, FYI I just ordered the thing in the original post. I even used a 10% discount which made it nice and cheap.

Thanks for everyone's help.

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Help / Re: Help me

« on: April 09, 2010, 11:23:18 AM »

You still have the option of Amazon Payments, and I wasn't aware PayPal had an age restriction.

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Modification Help / Re: I've got a new weapon coming up :)

« on: April 09, 2010, 11:07:20 AM »

Sounds pretty useless given that you either do it with a model placed infront of the user's face (switch to third person) or a clientside script (disable it).

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Off Topic / Re: Brother in coma :C

« on: April 09, 2010, 10:00:53 AM »

Hey im sorry man. My parents are getting divorced, so i kinda feel you pain.

I'm not sure how you can compare your parents getting divorced with someone who's brother is possibly going to die.

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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: April 09, 2010, 09:18:21 AM »

I didn't mean the two problems were related. I just meant if a server has 200 add-ons you may be sitting there for a while, although it would still take phenomenally less time to download via RTB. I'll have to do some tests to see how fast it can go, and I should be able to avoid TCP connection lag using the keep-alive directive which should also increase download speeds significantly.

Editing for clarification ...

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Modification Help / Re: RTB Development

« on: April 09, 2010, 09:06:23 AM »

Yeah, there are so many benefits of using it over the standard Torque file downloading.

 - Faster download speeds because you're getting the add-ons from our high-speed server.
 - Ability to download maps, custom bricks and kill/item icons without decal datablock hacks.
 - Users will download updated content if the server has a newer version of an add-on which the user has outdated content for.
 - Overall progress indicator and download time estimates.
 - Easily remove all your downloaded content at the click of a button from the Mod Manager.

My only concerns are:

 - Servers that have crazy numbers of add-ons.
 - The speed at which the RTB Webserver can serve static files. It may be that I need to get another server and configure/optimise it more appropriately for static file serving to give users a better latency.

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Off Topic / Re: New PC

« on: April 08, 2010, 03:34:21 PM »

Ok, Haggled with the Dell guy and got him to reduce the price by £50 which I'm not gonna complain about, and reduced my memory from 9 to 6 because 9 is slightly overkill anyway. So now the prices are essentially the same so I'm thinking I'll just get this Dell finally.

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Modification Help / Re: Blockland Trading Card Game

« on: April 08, 2010, 02:12:02 PM »

While I'm probably somehow wrong, I would say the RTB name/ID database relies solely on player-run servers.

Correct, you are entirely wrong.

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Off Topic / Re: New PC

« on: April 08, 2010, 12:12:36 PM »

Oh, the GTX 480 is out? The only option on the website was to pre-order it for some reason.

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Off Topic / Re: New PC

« on: April 08, 2010, 11:55:39 AM »

But the GTX 480 isn't out yet, right? So the HD5870 is my best bet if I were buying right now?

I'm still a bit apprehensive about buying ATI over nVidia, I've always had nVidia except that one time I accidentally bought an integrated intel graphics chip (Oop!)