Sipher

Updater is not updating, here's your proof.

Not necessarily, it all depends on how everything is placed on the screen. If all the buttons and interface stuff was placed using specific x and y values then there is going to be issues. If they're using variables(like they should be) then it wouldn't matter what resolution is being used. An easy example for non-programmers to understand. This is bad Resolution = 1024x768 Stat_Panel_location = 900x1 This would mean the resolution is a statis 1024x768 and can't be changed. The stat panel will always have the exact same location, 900x1. Let's say you changed the resolution to something like... 2048x1536. The stat panel is still at 900x1, it's no longer on the top right of the screen, it's sort of in the top middle. This is good Resolution_X = 1024 Resolution_Y = 768 Resolution = [Resolution_X]x[Resolution_Y] Stat_Panel_location = [Resolution_X] - 124 x 1 This is placing the current resolutions used inside of variables. In the case of the stat panel, this does exactly the same as what I did up top. The difference is that no matter the resolution being used, it will always place the Stat_Panel in the correct location. This is because it determines the X location by using the current Resolution_X variable and then subtracting it by 124 pixels(The size of the panel), and placing it at the very top. This is just a quick example I thought i'd share and isn't using any actual syntax.

@Rory @Whack Netcode can be a little tricky to deal with, and is a pain in the ass, in my opinion. However, the hardware all the connections are going through are just as important. You first need to determine what layer the bottleneck is taking place in. Layer 1(Physical) What kind of physical medium is the server connecting to the outside world with? Copper pair, fiber, coax....wireless?(Please say no, for the love of Jashin-sama say that the server is not using a wireless connection). Ideally a fiber line would be used because light travels much faster than electricity, which goes through copper/coax. Layer 2(Datalink) What speeds is the connection that the server uses setup for? Is the server on a 10Mb line? Something better? Does the server have it's own dedicated line, or is it part of a home network connected to a router that's shared by several other computers? Ideally for the server, you would want it to have it's own dedicated line so that resources aren't being used by other devices in the network. I realize however that this is probably not the case since this stuff can get pretty expensive and it's not like this game is huge or for-profit. Would it be possible to make a completely lag free game on a 10Mb line to support several hundred players? You bet your ass it would, if you don't mind learning an assembly language and spending 3+ years to code what would take a few months in a non-assembly language. Those are really the only two layers we have to worry about at this point regarding the OSI model and networking. I mean, at this point, the game doesn't even encrypt anything. When I say that nothing is being encrypted, I mean nothing is being encrypted. I've already checked the packets being sent/received and it's all plain text. At this point I would recommend that anyone who took the time to read this, know that you should not use a password that you use for other things in the server login. Not to say that Rory and the others can't be trusted, it's just extremely unsecure. Now if the game does start to encrypt packets, you can expect the network load to go up a bit. There's the whole matter of checking hashes and all that fun stuff that needs to be done. Before looking into the networking side of everything, I would take a look to see if the server itself is being overloaded for whatever reason. If the server has a high CPU usage when everyone connects, that could very well be the issue and would mean that the code needs to be more efficient. Maybe the code doesn't need to be more efficient, maybe what needs to be addressed are the layers I mentioned at the top of this post, who knows at this point. Also, if the server isn't dedicated, that would be a very major cause for lag. A server that's hosting a game but also being used for other things like streaming or playing other games and all that jazz would absolutely cause lag.

This question just gets asked every day now, doesn't it? No, the game is coded in Visual Basic which does not work with any iOS.

Your resolution would need to be higher than 1024x768. However, due to hardware limitations, some laptops will not be able to go above that.

Operating system. Also, you may have been downloading resources as the server shut off.

A whole 12 hours, the horror.

Because clearly any topic that even mentions GOA, is focusing on that game and not Ninonline. I have a dream, that the average forum reader will understand what he or she is reading and not make idiotic statements that are untrue. Oh wait this is the internet, never mind.

vs Sipher, Undo, Slash Zeke, Kazuma Torisuna, Claus Vaginas would moisten, the landscape would change, the game would crash. That, or Crosswise would be the only real challenge.

If only I could see the look on your faces when you kids first login and realize that Alpha is bare bones, because, ALPHA.

I can't wait to see the very first "What the fuck is copy wheel eye?" haha. Then there's the even better, "I just unlocked my Kaleidoscope Copy Wheel Eye, awww yeah".

I wonder how many guys will transform into bath towels in the women's spa.

I've always been loyal to Microsoft and the Xbox for many years, but they fucked up bad. Even with them deciding "LOL LETS REVERT ALMOST EVERYTHING WE JUST SAID WE WERE GONNA DO" it still doesn't cut it. The fact is that they sincerely thought they were putting in a bunch of features that believed *gamers* wanted. It's a shame, and proves that they're completely out of touch with their Xbox consumers. PS4

The two guys in your avatar are doing the fusion dance incorrectly, Jakashi.

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Everybody knows that if you surf the web long enough, you’ll see some pretty sick shit. This is especially true if you intentionally dwell into the dark underbelly of the internet. I’ve seen quite a few things I don’t care to admit to, but one thing that I’ll always remember is a site called “normalpornfornormalpeople.com”. The first strange thing about the site was that I didn’t find it by actually looking for it. It was e-mailed to me by someone I didn’t know. The e-mail was as follows: “Hi there found this site is very nice thought u might like normalpornfornormalpeople.com pass it on, for the good of mankind” Pretty standard issue chain letter, although the url and the last remark really piqued my curiosity. I was having a very boring day when I got this, so I made sure my anti-virus was working and then I clicked on it. It was a very average, very generic looking site. It gave the impression that the creators just BARELY gave a shit about making it look professional. The author seemed to have a very tenuous grasp on English, and on the front page was a long, boring, and incoherent rant that I don’t remember or have saved. The site had a strange tagline (which even today people haven’t figured out the meaning of), which was; “Normal Porn for Normal People, A Website Dedicated To The Eradication of Abnormal Sexuality” And from the sound of that, I wasn’t sure whether I was here to watch porn or if I had stumbled onto some kind of eugenics program. But I was here now, and I was very, very curious to see what “Normal People” get their rocks off to. So I scrolled down through the rant and…nothing. The page didn’t seem to link to anywhere else, and I was about to leave when I noticed every word of the rant was its own hyperlink. So I clicked one of them, and was sent to a white page with very long list of links in the form of: “normalpornfornormalpeople.com/ (random letters)” So I stopped for a minute and asked myself if I really wanted to waste God knows how much time clicking random links that will likely give me a virus that will rape my computer. I figured I’d just try it for maybe 5 minutes, just to see if anything came up. I clicked one of the links, and was sent to another page. This page apparently had totally different urls than the last one. I was just about to say “Fuck this” when I clicked on the 3rd link, and a video download came up. It was called “peanut.avi”. It was a 30 minute video of a man, a woman and a dog in a kitchen. The woman would make a peanut butter sandwich, and the man would set it down for the dog to eat. This was all that happened, for 30 minutes. It was obvious that the cameraman had to stop filming and wait until the dog was ready to eat again, and the dog seemed rather sick by the end of it. I know what you’re thinking: “What the hell does that have to do with porn?” I have no clue. I’ve seen a little over two dozen videos from this site, and the majority had no sexual activity at all. After watching peanut.avi, I went on a certain image board I frequent to play online show and tell, like I always do with weird shit like this. But someone had already made a thread about it, some guy who had received the same chain letter I did. The image board thread got lots of people with nothing better to do to dig through the site, and that’s how I saw other videos. Most of those two dozen videos were very uneventful, and consisted of people talking to the cameraman in a room with nothing in it but a desk and a few chairs. I mean literally nothing on the walls, or in terms of furniture. The whole room had a very cold, sterile feel to it. The conversations were just idle banter about previous jobs or embarrassing childhood moments. I kept expecting some kind of discussion about what the people were filming or what the site was about, but of course, nothing. You would never know these videos had anything to do with porn if you saw it out of context. I will say one thing though, the people who appeared in these videos were quite attractive. However, the other videos that actually did feature content which I suppose could be called “sexual” is where things got weird. I’ll give brief descriptions of the stranger videos, if you’re really eaten up with curiosity you can try to hunt them down on a torrent site. lickedclean.avi A 10 minute video filmed by a hidden camera in which we see a repairman working on a washing machine for the first 2 minutes. When it’s fixed, the repairman talks to the owner briefly, and then leaves. The owner checks to make sure the repairman is gone, and he begins to lick all over the top of the washing machine. This goes on for 7 minutes. jimbo.avi A 5 minute video of an obese mime performing his act. It was actually pretty funny, particularly one part where he pretends to pull up a chair, then pretends that it breaks because of his weight. In the last 30 seconds of the video, the camera cuts to static briefly and cuts back to the man sobbing quietly, still wearing mime outfit and makeup. Some kind of obscure fetish? dianna.avi 4 minute video in which the camerman talks to a woman in a room different from the “interview room.” This room looks like one you’d find in a normal person’s house. Exactly where they are is never specified, as Dianna only talks about her violin playing. She obviously plays her violin, but she keeps getting distracted by something. I didn’t notice this until someone on the image board thread pointed it out, but if you look at the mirror in the background, you can see a fat man in a chicken mask masturbating. jessica.avi Another 4 minute cameraman video. This time he’s outside a house, talking to another young woman. They talk about canoe rides. The camera zooms out to reveal the city streets behind them occasionally. The strange thing is: No one so far has been able to identify where this street is. Guesses have ranged everywhere from Europe to Australia to the Philippines, but there’s yet to be a match for the street shown in the video. tonguetied.avi 10 minute video. The first 5 minutes consist of an elderly woman making out with a mannequin. The video cuts out like it did in jimbo.avi halfway through, and the scene is now a group of mannequins huddled together in a circle around the camera. The lights have been dimmed, and the elderly woman is nowhere to be seen. From this point on, there is no sound. stumps.avi 5 minute long video where a man with no legs is attempting to breakdance on a DDR mat in what looks like the kitchen from peanut.avi, but much dirtier. There’s a radio playing music unseen in the background, but it stops at the 4 minute mark when the man collapses on the mat in exhaustion. He breathes heavily and pleads with someone off-screen to let him rest. This off-screen person becomes terrifyingly enraged and yells at him to keep dancing, which he does. You can hear this off-screen person begin to scream as the video ends abruptly. privacy.avi The woman from dianna.avi is masturbating on a mattress in the “interview room,” while the man from stumps.avi walks around on his hands while wearing some kind of goblin mask. The door in this room was always closed in other videos, but it’s now open. In this video the only light is in the room, and the hallway is dark. Near the end of the video, you can see an animal quickly run through the hallway. And finally, the last video we uncovered: useless.avi In this 18 minute video, a blonde woman from one of the previous interview videos is tied down to a mattress in the interview room. She attempts to scream but her mouth is taped over. After 7 minutes, a man in a black suit and mask opens the door, but he does not enter. He holds the door open for the animal that was running in the hall in the previous video. It’s revealed to be an adult chimpanzee, its hair shaved and its entire body painted red. It seemed to be starved and abused, with several wounds along it’s shoulders and back. When the chimp enters the room, the masked man closes the door behind it. The chimpanzee sniffs the air for a moment (it may have been blind), and notices the woman tied to the mattress. It goes into a frenzy, and begins to maul her. The assault goes on for a grueling 7 minutes, until the woman finally dies. The chimp eats flesh from her corpse for 4 minutes as the video ends. The thread exploded with activity after this video was uncovered, and people discussed it long into the night. When I came back to the image board the next day I found that the thread was deleted. I tried to start another one, and they banned me. I tried e-mailing the guy who sent me the chain letter with the site’s url, sent him 5 messages and never got a response. I have tried to discuss this website on various places, and I got banned frequently. The site itself was also deleted about 3 days after useless.avi was uncovered, likely because someone contacted the authorities about it. The only proof that normalpornfornormalpeople.com ever existed was a few screencaps people took, and videos from the site that people saved and uploaded on torrents. The most popular of which being useless.avi, which found its way onto a few gore sites. Wherever you upload them to, all of the videos from normalpornfornormalpeople.com get deleted after a while.

How would I feel? Obviously indifferent because I know a stupid change when I see one. You clearly didn't watch the video I posted, or you didn't understand it.

@Noble Really? are you role playing on the forum, or do you actually believe you're nobility? A calculator coded in VB, DM, C#, C++, Python, HTML, Java, and even assembly is still a calculator. The people that visit this forum, any other forum, any other website, are still just people, the same people that go to BYOND as well. I can't even take you seriously, hah.

Uncle Sipher obviously has to start lecturing people. @People from GOA Stop attempting to relate this game to GOA, because it isn't GOA. I know that deep down, probably subconsciously a lot of you want this game to basically become GOA 2.0. A version of the game that didn't go off the deep end and start to suck big time. I have my own doubts as well but you should at least give Rory's plan a try before constantly criticizing. Anyone sitting there right now ready to yell "BUT SIPHER YOU WERE JUST CRITICIZING RORY'S BAD IDEAS", you're wrong. The purpose of feedback is to make Rory aware of the problems that could happen and a possible fix in case they missed something when going to the drawing board. @Rory Stop believing you're so high and mighty over BYOND. Every time you mention BYOND, you associate it with negativity. GOA didn't fall apart because it's from BYOND, it fell apart because of poor decisions made by developers. Many great, original games come from BYOND that did not become the undecisive bi-polar schizophrenic girlfriend that is GOA. The only difference between a game on BYOND and Ninonline is the programming language. From what I can tell, everything talked about in this forum can also be done in DM. A lot of the people in that community are nice and helpful as well. You should quit your prejudice while you're ahead, it's disgusting. I'm making you aware of this for your benefit. If I wanted to be an asshole, you would feel the wrath of a thousand suns come down on you. I know you're sincerely trying to make a fun game for everyone while maintaining a positive outlook and attitude, so I try to be...gentle. @Sipher Stop being papa Sipher all the time asshole, why you always need to have a conscience and logical thinking and shit? You keep looking at the big picture far too often, clown.

I sincerely hope all goes well. If Rory is able to get everything he said up and running without issues, I will french kiss Noble.

There is far too much "big brothering" going on in regards to GMs and decisions kages make. If a Kage isn't allowed to make their decisions quickly without being blocked by a GM, then that Kage is not the undisputed leader of their village, the person cockblocking him is. Isn't the whole point of a Coup d'état to get rid of a Kage that the village doesn't want? Why would a Kage need to be banned or forcibly removed at all? If the village isn't willing to revolt, then they deserve to be taken advantage of. Any intelligent leader knows that they are nothing without something to lead. I'm pretty sure that a Kage being assassinated does not prevent/prolong wars, it does the complete opposite. Enemy village has no leader and is in disarray, time to take advantage of that. Not everyone who plays a video game participates in the forum, a 10 post requirement to do the chuunin exam promotes mindless spam just to be able to enter the exam. It also means more work for GMs to verify post count, which will eventually feel like a second job to them. Assuming only one kage needs to be in attendance to a chuunin exam, what's to stop them from choosing only the genin from their village to be promoted?

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.