RTB Development

[PVC Potato Gun]

RTB is not at liberty to discuss the Scallywag Mode because this feature is currently involved in a pending lawsuit related to a tragic ballooning accident.

Wedge is alive.

Also, lol.

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[SWAT One]

RTB is not at liberty to discuss the Scallywag Mode because this feature is currently involved in a pending lawsuit related to a tragic ballooning accident.

Everyone.  Disable it now.
Also, Wedge, I liked the old avatar :C.

[Jay the Cartoonist]

Everyone.  Disable it now.
Also, Wedge, I liked the old avatar :C.

heyman don't diss Kramer.

[SWAT One]

heyman don't diss Kramer.

All due respect given.
I just liked the loopy-eyed Cookie Monster.

[Mr.Noßody]

Does the RTB update mean all the Add-ons currently on RTB will be removed?
Some of the earlier updates did this.

[Chrono]

Does the RTB update mean all the Add-ons currently on RTB will be removed?

No.

[Ephialtes]

Does the RTB update mean all the Add-ons currently on RTB will be removed?
Some of the earlier updates did this.

This had to happen once. It won't happen again.

[Robo Dude]

This had to happen once. It won't happen again.

What fix required you to clear all the RTB2 add ons?

[Ephialtes]

We switched from an unmoderated submission system to a moderated and more quality-controlled system so all add-ons were removed instead of going through each one to decide whether it stayed or got removed. There are some other more technical reasons but that's the main one.

[Masterlegodude]

Is this link issue gonna be fixed?


When viewed outside of Blockland, the link works fine

[Ephialtes]

Progress Update

I worked a lot on cleaning up a bunch of small issues and doing my own testing around the place which turned up loads of crap which I also fixed. I also did some file structure re-organization. I also finally got around to doing some nice looking menu buttons for the RTB overlay, so visually I'm now happy with RTB4.

I still need to talk to Badspot about socket objects on the Mac or figure out some clever work-around to prevent these crashes. It's blocking RTB4 at the moment because anyone who has the VCE add-on will crash when they open the overlay and I assume there are similar add-ons that will cause this. Obviously I can't release before there's some sort of resolution to that.

I'm going to do some further stress testing on the server to make sure the hardware I have is sufficient for ~1,000 concurrent users. I don't think I'll need to worry about capacity issues for a while but there's probably a few things I can do if the server starts to get a little sluggish.

[Darkmaster20]

I smell beta5!!! 

[Ephialtes]

So far in my stress-testing adventure I've identified one major pain point which is the list of users in a chat room that gets sent to anyone who joins. Since my target is to have the chat server working happily with 1,000 simultaneous users things got a little sluggish when it came to joining a room with 1,000 people in it. As a result, I'm going to do some fiddling to see if there's a better way I can transfer the data without causing Blockland to lock up.

[MegaScientifical]

I assume that involves reducing the initial data sent along with the users? Probably can't be cut down to just names, but less information about each person sent immediately.

[Placid]

Hm.. isn't this peculiar. For some reason, I have forgotten my RTB username and the email i signed up under.
Ephi, is it at all possible that you could tell me what my username is? I'm assuming it's something like 'Placid' but I honestly don't know. If it's registered under a BLID, it would be 5173.