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Not since the HSC in 1992 have I had to write 800 words on something in essay format, you know - intro, body, conclusion. Surprisingly fun but mostly frustrating. I’m not a natural arguer - the only thing that comes naturally to me is sarcasm I think.
“5th Birthday” as in - 5 years live. It will be 10 years in August since I started it all …
Spent something like 5-8 hrs making newbie island, because maybe 1 in 10 people who try euo get past the first 5 mins. Is it really that hard? Well newbie island has many obnoxious popups telling you how to attack and whatnot …
rock on
2 hrs to kill at COFA - 1 hr and 15 min to go. I’m in the computer lab, and not only forced to use a mac, but furryfox refuses to load. What a travesty.
Checked out the library as suggested by the lovely Cecelia - lots of art books of course but it was all about as appealing as the Chester Hill library, as far as a place to kill time in goes. Many interesting videos and and a few dvds - but you can’t borrow them, and there is only the dingiest room on earth to watch them in. I guess I could bring my laptop in and rip and/or watch them on that.
now that I figured out that the best bit about it was written by someone else: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com
true democratisation is writing your own goddamn “blog software” (using someone else’s wysiwyg javascript textareas of course)
the NY web2.0 circle jerk can stay on with fucking tumblr and die of old age while they wait for their tags - not me, I’m going to ART SCHOOL tomorrow
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just spent all nite writing on the forum about bugs fixed and also updating the euo manual Latest Changes section, read it, it’s awesome : LINK
About 5 hours encoding the numbers in FOV packets into chars and converting the flags into bits and such - got pkts down to about 65% of their orig size. Has taken much debugging to get the base-222 converter working. I hate signed & unsigned ints in C.
so much to do … can’t concentrate on anything … stinky webdev taking up too much time … where the fuck are my tags tumblr - I’m growing impatient …
Maybe a good idea to give EUO a rest for a day or two anyway, I’ve been going so flat out on it …
All day today and yesterday continuing to trim down FOV and other network traffic. Pleased with results. Few bugs of course but nothing that can’t be fixed. And still a few improvements to make but I’m pretty sure there is at least 3-5x less traffic now, maybe more.
Yesterday I redid packet encryption to be a little less bulky and a little less injectable (keeping details to myself of course)
Today I spent all day working on Field of View (Fov) updates - ie trying to have less of them as they use so much bandwidth. And I’m not done yet. Just optimised player movements but still need to strip down monster movement, combat & maybe magic and a few other things. I’m quite pleased as this is something I’ve tried twice in the past with both times abandoning the idea to the too-hard-basket.
With new DM’d events and super mobs with 10+ players attacking them at once (with the future goal of having up to 50 in a fight at once) I really need to get this network whipped into shape.
Spent hours and hours perfecting shared xp. Next cab of the rank is optimised FOV as discussed with George. Now that is going to be a pain in the ass - think about it tomorrow.
Spent all day grinding tutes out of a book and it was fine. When it came to doing a skull / skeleton for euo failed dismally.
finally did some work. Knuckled down and figured out a formula for diminishing returns on stats so I could scrap the level cap on reg. God bless Excel. Fixed like 2 bugs, but both were kinda important.
Also worked on the euo home page account sign up thingy - fucking hotmail, I don’t think there is anyway to send someone an email from php to their hotmail account and not have it land in the junk folder. About 150 people or so signed up to play euo this year and that sure as shit hasn’t translated into 150 new players. Maybe 1.5 new players. Many didn’t get registration emails. Rest minus 1.5 think it’s too hard to get past level 1.
Euo needs a mouse.
Maybe I’ll also finish Lord Jim this year *roll eyes* …
not depressed or anything, just very sluggish. Barely cleaned up downloads directory. Only good things done are more EUO events but someone else has been doing that (I’m just the code checker).
Did a tiny bit more of the new game but it’s a struggle.
Want to get 50 ppl playing EUO on it’s 5th birthday on April 3. Have to spam some blogs or RPG news sites or something. Promo promo promo, if only I had the gaul to be into marketing.
ie: stealing ideas, seeing how the other guy does it …
Spent all arvo webdevving (can’t post link as it is TOP SECRET) for a guy who is really good for paying, as opposed to the usual freeloaders who drag jobs out for months and years.
Spent a bit of time updating the EUO DM guide, a word doc, but will merge it into the web page. I kind of like the idea of a static document though, but even plain HTML would be better than word. Conceptually & philisophically, databased manuals (eg http://swut.net/euo/manual which uses wikimedia) don’t sit well with me as far as stored info goes, but of course their major and maybe only advantages is that they are easy for a group to edit and of course are online.
blogging WAAH hey I think tumbl’s TEAM OF ENGINEERS fixed the timezone bug, let’s see …
edit: it is true
Am now automatically archiving all my tumblr posts into my own database - see the archive. Eventually may just use tumblr as the wysiwyg while swut.net runs off it’s own database populated every now and then by tumblr. Really looking fwd to tumblr adding tags already.
Spent the rest of the morning helping Tyler with his EUO shit, and will probably spend some time after lunch doing web dev, as EUO just doesn’t pay the bills. If only it did.