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Happy 4th of JulyTo those of you in the US, I guess I could say Happy Independence Day, but to everyone else, I hope you had a good 4th of July. I’ve been hard at work on Sylverant for a bit now (a week or two), and I have something that I’m just going to leave here for right now…
More to come later, once I finish up with testing… 18 Responses to “Happy 4th of July” |
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PSOcalypse get!
Palmacosta, nice ship name for PSO BB
Palmacosta is simply my testing ship. Usually when its up, it’ll be set as Global GM-only (since usually I can do my testing alone), but I took that restriction off last night so I could get a few others in to help me test.
If you ever see a SHIP/US menu with nothing in it, that’s where Palmacosta is hiding. 😉
Ah, i have seen that yes, but never understood why (it was empty), now i do.
I sense Blue Burst Support Coming. Wonder if DC compatibility will be better than GC.
Before I ever announced Sylverant, the only version of PSO it supported was Blue Burst (of course, at that point, it was just a “port” of Tethealla to *nix). It was somewhat interesting trying to readd that support now (and in a much cleaner way IMO than Tethealla handled it).
That said, don’t count on DC/PC/GC< ->BB compatibility for playing games any time soon, if ever.
I worry that BB people will overun the sever like Schthack.
Well, schthack is the most stable atm, other servers strugle with cmode and make many rollbacks, schtserv still does them in some catastrofic situations, but it’s not daily.
Also, it’s a good place to start playing any version of PSO, but as we can see, they lost v1&v2, wich isn’t a big problem, because the income comes mostly from BB
My question is, overrun in what manner? I’ve never understood what people meant by that in the first place.
Either way, full BB support isn’t coming any time soon. Pretty much the compatibility stands at being able to walk around the lobby and such. You can’t form a team, you can’t actually play in a game, etc. It will most likely stay that way for a while, as I have other things that I intend to work on first.
This was partially done to give me a reason to work on things like server-side drops and the like (which will be needed for full-compatibility between DC/PC and GC anyway).
Overrun as in 90% of the population is BB, and 90% of server focus is on BB. The reason Schtserv dropped the DC/PC Only ship is because, there, [it seems as though] most of the staff, except for notably Cranberry and Aleron Ives, don’t care all that much about us old-schoolers (and because they caught wind that we {=PSOpalace people} left. If anything, it’s less for them to worry about so they can focus more on their precious BB…).
Well, I certainly don’t plan on dropping support for the earlier versions. Hell, that’s what has made this place what it is, and I don’t want to change that (also, I don’t think Aleron Ives would let me, even if I did want to do something stupid and crazy like that).
I just wouldn’t feel like the project would ever be able to come to some sort of state of completion if I left out a version of PSO just for the hell of it. There’s no reason why all the versions can’t live in harmony, at least that’s the way I see it.
Ohhh Please clarify my doubts that pso bb of sylverant is for the game cube? Or computer?
PSOBB is for Windows, not for Gamecube. PSO for Gamecube has been supported on the server for a long time.
So GC/DC compatibility is possible? Well, good compatibility at least. Interesting.
To some degree, yes. All of the crashing and other strange things that make playing together dangerous can be fixed, but some things are just different, such as the strength of the enemies and weapons. If you play with a GC player in Ultimate, you will always see him missing or doing 0 damage, yet the enemies will still be dying.
Why not just make it like v2? All the enemy stats, weapon stats, Character stats, etc.
It is possible.
The problem with making BB compatible with other versions is the way BB wants the server to handle things instead of the client. The different game mechanics are secondary to that, in terms of actual server functionality.
I’m not saying make it compatible with the other versions.