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Modification Help / Re: Return to Blockland v3

« on: March 17, 2009, 07:33:23 PM »

As I'm starting to re-design the ingame mod manager, It'd be good if you guys could post things you don't like about the existing one, and things you'd like to see in the new one. I have read most of the suggestions people have sent via the bug reporter (despite my claims of burning them) but summarizing them here too incase i missed any would be a good idea and would allow people to bounce the ideas around a bit.

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Modification Help / Re: Return to Blockland v3

« on: March 17, 2009, 07:25:24 PM »

Thats just double the work...

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Modification Help / Re: Stopping someone from using a server command

« on: March 17, 2009, 06:47:28 PM »

This goes in suggestions.

Coding Help is a forum where we help you code stuff, not where you come here and tell us to give you stuff. Get out.

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Off Topic / Re: What city do you live in?

« on: March 17, 2009, 06:02:24 PM »

Lundun, Youkay.

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Modification Help / Re: Return to Blockland v3

« on: March 17, 2009, 04:57:43 PM »

This is something i'm currently debating. I'll be doing it in one of two ways:

• Authentication is based on your Blockland ID so once you successfully authenticate with the blockland master server, you'll be signed into RTB Connect without having to enter a password or anything. (This works because it means passwords don't have to be transmitted in plaintext however it'll require some server modifications to allow that method of authentication)
• Users are required to register an RTB Connect account using their BL ID and a password of their choosing, and they'll then sign into this by entering their password (or ticking the remember password box) each time they open the game. This would allow people to use RTB Connect by simply having a jabber client or through trillian/pidgin as you mentioned.

I'm leaning towards the second option since I realise it would be handy to be able to use your RTB Connect account outside of Blockland and Jabber does support multiple instances of being logged in which is pretty nifty. Also the server mods required for the first option would be pretty heavy and i'm not too hot on the old Java.

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Modification Help / Re: Return to Blockland v3

« on: March 17, 2009, 04:29:03 PM »

Yeah we will be, I've already written the XML parser for it.

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Off Topic / Re: Post real life pictures of yourself.

« on: March 17, 2009, 04:28:10 PM »

Yes he does don't lie.   

You probably haven't seen a picture of me then...

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Off Topic / Re: Post real life pictures of yourself.

« on: March 17, 2009, 02:59:00 PM »

He looks nothing like me...

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Modification Help / Re: Return to Blockland v3

« on: March 17, 2009, 12:00:37 PM »

A bit of an update here regarding RTB Connect (the buddy list/messenger) planned for RTB4. I know I said it would be possible to talk to people on msn using it however I am concerned that it may not be as secure as i'd like it to be. MSN usernames and passwords would be transmitted in plain-text to the RTB server where they would then be encrypted which is obviously not a very safe method of handling passwords. I think that unless I can convince badspot to integrate the sha1 library or md5 library, I won't be allowing connections to msn from RTB Connect. Despite the tiny probability that your password is intercepted on the way to the RTB server, I'm not going to be responsible for anything bad that happens.

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Add-Ons / Re: Return to Blockland

« on: March 17, 2009, 10:34:29 AM »

*coughexpirencecough*

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Add-Ons / Re: Return to Blockland

« on: March 17, 2009, 03:38:16 AM »

Ephi won't be working on RTB full-time anytime soon since he refuses to try and make any sort of money off of it. :)

What can I say, I hate these guys enough to not want their filthy money. 

RTB helped land me my first job, so in a third-party roundabout kind of way, it is making me money.

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Add-Ons / Re: Return to Blockland

« on: March 16, 2009, 09:06:48 PM »

Been pretty busy at work so RTB progress is slightly slow. There is still progress though.

The new downloads system should be completed in a few weeks and will be ready for everyone to upload their stuff to.

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General Discussion / Re: V11 Released

« on: March 16, 2009, 07:15:49 PM »

It appears as you can't use parent:: stuff outside of the add-on folder.

No... The error message is pretty specific actually. Stop being stupid.

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Modification Help / Re: A note to modders

« on: March 16, 2009, 06:42:40 PM »

If you save files(i.e for save files for RPGs and such) they must be saved in a "default directory".

More testing will hopefully show up what these are, but apparently custom folders in config/server don't work, so you've got to either spam the hell out of config with files or maybe a folder in add-ons will work.

Hopefully I can throw up a list or someone who has more knowledge of this can do it for me.

No

Default directories are the directories that come with the game - screenshots,config,add-ons,base,saves,editor.

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General Discussion / Re: V11 Released

« on: March 16, 2009, 05:11:05 PM »

RTB V2.03 is out.