RTB Development

[(Hit Man)]

alright

so unreleased add-ons you have been given privately?

[Ad Bot]

[Max4344]

Not if they've been fail-binned or exist on the crap-on list.

Dang i was going to Upload:Max4344's color set FULL WIP so looks like im out of luck

[Cody574]

Dang i was going to Upload:Max4344's color set FULL WIP so looks like im out of luck

I don't know why you'd upload unfinished WIP work to RTB. Isn't that why your last colourset got failed?

Anyway, Ephi, if you don't mind answering a small question...do you have any idea what the RTB Connect GUI will look like?

[Chrono]

Anyway, Ephi, if you don't mind answering a small question...do you have any idea what the RTB Connect GUI will look like?

He has shown us before.
Dunno where the pic went.

[Ephialtes]

Anyway, Ephi, if you don't mind answering a small question...do you have any idea what the RTB Connect GUI will look like?

I have no idea why you're interested - You lost the right to use RTB a while back.
There's some news. Unfortunately Space Guy has decided to take a permanent break from reviewing add-ons. Contrary to popular belief it is an extremely demanding job and it's a lot to ask for someone to do it (and for free, too) so well done him for lasting so long. On the downside, it's now just me since Resonance_Cascade seems to have also bailed, he cracked after about a week

Reviewing may be a little slower now because of this, but never fear because I am once again going back to RTB's favourite all-female recruitment agency (where we found the RTB Mod Bot, Cron Bot and Stat Bots (but not BlockBot, that's another story)) to hire our latest addition to the team; Review Bot! Review Bot will be replacing most of the work done by Mod Reviewers and will only pass over work to me when she can't decide on what to do. I'll have some more details eventually but for now you should just bear in mind that reviewing may take a little longer than it usually does and the tolerance for poor quality add-ons will be ... low.

On a development note, I got a little bored working on v3.3 because I found a huge annoying bug in it so I've just stashed it somewhere in the cavernous rtb svn repository and I'll get around to it later. However I have been working solidly on v4 - the server and authentication code for it is now in place and it seemed to run fine with a couple of unit tests I wrote for it. I've been optimizing and extending the custom XML parser I wrote in torquescript specifically for RTB Connect and testing that too. Next stop is to begin designing the client (code design, not prettiness) which will be a monumental task and no doubt I will have an unyielding need to re-code it for v5 (because hindsight is undoubtedly the most valuable programming asset).

And that's the news - over to Mocheeze for the weather.

[Blastdown]

Reviewing may be a little slower now because of this, but never fear because I am once again going back to RTB's favourite all-female recruitment agency (where we found the RTB Mod Bot, Cron Bot and Stat Bots (but not BlockBot, that's another story)) to hire our latest addition to the team; Review Bot! Review Bot will be replacing most of the work done by Mod Reviewers and will only pass over work to me when she can't decide on what to do. I'll have some more details eventually but for now you should just bear in mind that reviewing may take a little longer than it usually does and the tolerance for poor quality add-ons will be ... low.

You seem very attracted to female slaves.
I would make sure you work her to the bone before actually letting her out into the open world.

[Makingblah]

@Ephi
Time for one of my mindless Ideas;

How about you get people to volenteer for it, then get the general community to vote to see if that person is good enough?

Example:
Some dude makes a thread and says:
I want to help approve add-ons for about a week.

Theres a poll where the community can vote yes or no, where the vote needs to reach 30 more yes's then no's, or ultimately you say yes or no.
You can twist that around in a smarter way.

[Ephialtes]

I would never entrust something like this to the community to decide on. The definition of someone "good" in this community is "how much that person does for me personally/gives me" and not whether they are actually "good". We then get certain idiots consistently voting for one person because that person gives them lots of scripts. You can maybe see how this would absolutely not work.

The only substitute for a Space Guy I will accept is Review Bot, and that's the plan. The rest of the modders in this community have no concept or understanding of quality.

[Cody574]

I have no idea why you're interested - You lost the right to use RTB a while back.

fffffffffff
I thought it only applied to the mod manager since everything else worked without limitations.

Whatever, I'm still sticking to the fact that you barred me for taking a terrible attempt at humour as a gigantic offense.

[Kalphiter]

fffffffffff
I thought it only applied to the mod manager since everything else worked without limitations.

Whatever, I'm still sticking to the fact that you barred me for taking a terrible attempt at humour as a gigantic offense.

RTBMM_BarredOverlay.setVisible(0);
Will make you able to use only client-sided mod managing(yourMODS tab)

Being barred from yourMODS is pointless

Funny since Ephialtes bars mostly scripters that would know how to bypass it

[Chrono]

I don't think he cares if you access yourMODS. You still can't connect to the RTB server lol

[Marcem]

I would never entrust something like this to the community to decide on. The definition of someone "good" in this community is "how much that person does for me personally/gives me" and not whether they are actually "good". We then get certain idiots consistently voting for one person because that person gives them lots of scripts. You can maybe see how this would absolutely not work.

The only substitute for a Space Guy I will accept is Review Bot, and that's the plan. The rest of the modders in this community have no concept or understanding of quality.

I would review maps, but I doubt I would be chosen.

[Resonance_Cascade]

Sorry, I've been sitting the HSC (final examinations for high school) and have my 18th birthday tomorrow, but I'll be helping again afterwards.

[Ephialtes]

Sorry, I've been sitting the HSC (final examinations for high school) and have my 18th birthday tomorrow, but I'll be helping again afterwards.

Don't worry, It's not a criticism or anything. This is no full time job, just do whatever when you feel like it. I hope to automate it more anyway and just have the system kick back any tough decisions to a human reviewer.

Funny since Ephialtes bars mostly scripters that would know how to bypass it

There are lots of scripters on the ban list because they're the kind of idiots who like to try and abuse/break things. I don't care if you use the Your Mods tab, I never intended for it to be inaccessible - I just wasn't going to put in the effort to make some sort of exception to get rid of the overlay for those sections.

Whatever, I'm still sticking to the fact that you barred me for taking a terrible attempt at humour as a gigantic offense.

Nice Try. 

[Kalphiter]

There are lots of scripters on the ban list because they're the kind of idiots who like to try and abuse/break things.

So I'm barred for something I never abused?