[Max]

The third GSW server test is now over, so the road to beta begins. It saddens me that some people could not behave, but I am confident that we will find ways around that. Here are the stats from this server test:

Misc. Stats:
Registered Accounts: 484
Max. Concurrent Users: 26
Logins: 2576

Sprite Distribution:
Alex: 66
Isaac: 60
Felix: 52
Saturos: 51
Ivan: 38
Agatio: 37
Piers: 35
Garet: 27
Jenna: 26
Mia: 24
Kraden: 21
Menardi: 17
Karst: 16
Sheba: 14

So thank you all again for another fun server test, and I'll make sure to keep you posted on our continued development progress.

[Nobody]

Wow. I thought Isaac would still be the most-chosen sprite. I agree about the behavior thing, but we can't do anything about it without a kick/ban/warn system.
Although it's a long time away and no dates can be promised, about what month can we expect the beta to be relased?

[Neon]

i like thew idea of the group kick. It means that how offensive something is is judged by the people present. Much better for a live discussion.
If everyone present finds swearing offensive. The person is kicked.
If they honestly don't care, then the person remains.

The 'rules' are relative to the users. Very intuitive ^^.

oh, and the server test was good,m tohugh decidedly boring :lol:.
I had lots of problems with lagging toward the end. Probably not because of the server though.

[Omega]

The lag was probably a lot of people use your ISP. I for one couldn't see this thing because my stupid ISP blocked online games! >< I'm gonna write a letter to those losers!

[Blink]

Ohh...that stinks omega.

and that's a good idea Neon...

[Omega]

Hehe still typing up the letter..

[Neo]

Although I only came on twice, I must say I enjoined it, Again. it looks really good, just as good as the normal GS. I am still suprised about the graphics you did with the spriting.

Good Job, Max. I hope the Beta will be released shortly.

[baker1000]

i'm sad that the sever test are over :D now

is there an expected release for beta :lol:

[Omega]

Well I must admit the server test did get a lot of people to join the GSSF...

[Sea of Time]

I missed it.....again. Beta had better come soon, cuz I am so tired of missing these things. *sigh*

[Omega]

Come online more often Time of Sea!

[Warbird]

For the short 2 days i was on, it was alot of fun. Can't wait for the beta, keep up the good work :lol:

[Max]

AveneR should be free to work on GSW again in about another month and a half, so we will need another additional month or two after that. So I'm thinking a late June launch at the earliest. And since I won't be here during most of June, we'll probably launch early to mid July. I know it seems far away, so we may have one more test before then, but I'm not sure at this point.

[Eothain]

hey peeps, new guy...but only to the forums...i ran by this same name in GSW...and am sad to see it down again...oh, and btw, i was the one who kept saying "alexes rule"... and just look at that...most users chose the alex sprite...amazing

[Omega]

Umm... people were angry at proplr who kept saying pointless stuff you know.... BTW Max, that's good that'll be released in June because by that time, my ISP would be faster! 100MBPS!

[Blink]

hmm...I wonder, right now I just joined a 3d club at my school, I wonder if new learned skills could help in any way with GSW :lol:

[Neo]

It doesn't matter about the late release, Max. Even if it takes a year to get GSW to his final stage, I'll wait. There is no reason for releasing a game which isn't well checked for bugs, errors etc. I have anough games which were released to soon.

[Omega]

Yes, I agree with Neo, If it's for working out all the bugs then it should be released late.

[My Best Wishes]

With a kicking system. Theres an online fps shooter Americas Army. (best fps i have EVER played. EVER)

If someone is annyoing one person will start a kick stating a reason example Votekick armyguy736 reason-fragging teammate. and people hit f6 and depending on the amount of people on say 9 people on 7 people ahve to vote, once it reaches the number the person is kicked of the sever.

Not sure how you would incooperate this into gsw and weather or not it would be abused but i think it is a good suggestion.

[Nobody]

Watch, can you please restate/rephrase that a bit? I can't understand a word of that...

[Blink]

People get 7 strikes. If 7 different people report you, you're out!

then again, this game has a limit to 16 players per game, so you couldn't have clans of 7 people going around reporting everyone, so, it would have to be a higher number in GSW, probably 10 people.

[My Best Wishes]

Nonono thats not how it works.

I thought i explained it well enough but appraently not.

Say for example someone is going around saying'hello' yay i'm happy. Pointless spam or stalking someone starts a votekick. and say there are 10 people on (including the spammer) 8 people (including the votekick starter) would vote to kick them of. Meaning that aside from the spammer only one person could not agree.

Is that simple enough?

[Neon]

erm. We all vote.
if votes to kick > votes to stay then he's booted.
otherwise he remains and we all complain till the cows come home.

if they're equal, the person stays. (hence only having ">")

[Max]

Yes, that's basically how our system is going to work. We know about many systems like this, so we will create an appropriate solution for GSW.

[musicman2059]

The problem is that people may abuse the votekick system to get rid of people that they personally don't like. There are a few workarounds, though:

a) Only give the ability to votekick to authoritative users. (mods, admins, etc.)
:o After a votekick is done, a certain amount of time must pass (2-5 minutes) before another one may be started.

And of course, mods and admins should have the ability to directly kick someone no matter what.

[Somia]

Our beloved Alex?! Well I wished the server test could've stayed on longer but since we want better product we'll have to wait.

[Eothain]

the idea of a kicking system is pretty good...but that'll have its flaws as well...i still think having online mods/admins is a better idea...as that guy said...a kicking system COULD be taken advantage of...

[My Best Wishes]

But when i went on only once did i see a mod/admin and that was nick, and he was there becuase of complaints, so the mods/admins aren't there all the time, and when it's released for good we need a bulletproof system for when they aren't there.

[Max]

The register script has issues because the database isn't online. I still can't comprehend why people even attempt to register for a closed game.