New cybervillage

Death · Post by **Death** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:18 pm

When your digits go into the negatives, I found they do crazy things. I attempted to rob you with something small and got fined. I lost around 1000 IC's. At the time, I had deposited my money in the bank, so I had roughly about 210 ic's in my wallet. When It went into the negatives, I thought nothing of it. I had around -1000 IC's or so. Then, when I entered the bank screen, it showed 290 IC's in my wallet. When I exited the bank, it showed -2000 or so. After going to a few shops (but not buying anything), my IC's fluctuated like CRAZY! At one point, I had - 66667 IC's. I finally paid it all back and restored my total, but that was quite odd. Might need to be checked out of something.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 8:25 pm

Oh crap, might be because BIGINTS don't support negatives... I'll have to experiment with that. This can't be good, since the whole system uses BIGINTS, well it's only a thing of changing it in the database, but bigints are the largest types. Floats might be the only alternative.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:50 pm

Need to add a new item type: Supernatural items. I just opened up my artifact shop and it's going to have MASSIVE items which are REALLY expensive. However, most of them will be stuff like "Super Flood" or "essence of earthquake". The military doesn't use earthquakes

. ALTHOUGH! That WOULD be funny

. BTW, Ian has an article on Macroeing and the use of bots to play games. Might be a good idea to post it. It needs a bunch of revision, but it's a big issue for online gaming these days. I'll bet it would get some nice hits.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 4:02 pm

yeah would be cool to post that up I'll talk to him about it.

I'll add that category now, I was actually thinking of adding it (or did I mention it in class? lol) Given I'll have to add the entry in the database using the database admin panel might as well do a backup too.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 4:04 pm

Ya, you did. I'm revising the article at the moment. Making sure that other people will get the message. Great, as soon as that item type is up, I'll manufacture more items

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 4:05 pm

Added the category.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 4:16 pm

Excellent

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Death · Post by **Death** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:05 pm

I just had an idea. Wouldn't it be cool to show titles on the cybervillage screen? On the title screen, you can see members and their activity. It will be dependant on what percentage of the cybervillage they own. For example, I own around 16 pieces of land, so my title might show FURBALL OWNS AROUND 34% of the Cybervillage. Also, the higher the person (Who has the most moeny and property) can be given a title like:
RED SQUIRREL: PRESIDENT. Or FURBALL: HEAD OF BANKING. All dependant on the industries in the cybervillage and the success of the owner. So, whoever has the most banks will be called the "HEAD BANKER" and whoever has the most shops can be called the "HEAD SHOPKEEP".

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:18 pm

Would be cool, but would be hard on the database to compute that every time it loads.

Oh and stealing from guest will be a tad harder now. Since it automaticly generates itself some defence when successfully stolen from. That should help the enron stocks.

I was also informed that bigints actually have a limit that is much higher then the one set, so I'll test this out when I get the chance and if it's the case we won't be limited by 2100000000 anymore for numbers.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:29 pm

Ya, guest is a jarr to steal from. NO DEFENSE. A blank bomb does the trick!

. Good idea to have defense on it.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:56 pm

How's THIS for a house? It's not a top view or anything, you can put more detail into a 3-dimentional house I find. I think it looks nifty. Highly decorative. Just add a couple more snowbanks

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 6:17 pm

Yeah looks cool, but would look out of place with all the top views.

I was thinking of making the cybervillage horizontal scrolling though, sort of like super mario. Technically it would be possible to change it without much hassle... but we'll stick with the 2D map.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 6:25 pm

The lotary is official worthy. No more dough racking so easy anymore! The pot could be bigger though.....maybe 18 mil or something.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 6:31 pm

I'll keep it at 10M to see how things go, if it's really hard to win then I might put it at like 25M or something. The jackpot is only applied once someone actually does win so that's why it still says 9M + bought tickets. But now that it's harder to win, the jackpot will grow more as people attempt to win.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 6:52 pm

How's this for a new cybervillage building? It's an igloo!!!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:46 pm

haha cool, upload it!

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Death · Post by **Death** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:52 pm

Ya, I uploaded it. Only thing though, the paths I uploaded need to be erased. I had to fix a good chunk of them so that they connect properly. They're all fixed up now....they just need to be erased from the house bank so that other users don't get them mixed up.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:58 pm

Oh ok, I'll do that, just give me the right urls to ensure I don't get the wrong ones!

I should put a delete feature, basically I could make it check the map table to ensure it's not in use.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:59 pm

Ya, ALL THE PATHS. I find it easier to just upload all of them at once...make sure I don't get rid of the wrong ones

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:00 pm

Just noticed all the changes good work.

Remember top view only

Or did the sigh fall over?

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Death · Post by **Death** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:04 pm

Oh, it IS top view actually. You can't exactly draw a sign from the top view....nobody can tell what it is

. Thta one has a bit of 3 dimention in it.....you seee, the snow at the base creates a "distance" perspective. But if you want it changed, I might be able to whip up something new. How are the snowy paths?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:06 pm

Yeah the paths are good, it's just that having something in an angle kind of gives an ackward perspective. Though you can do like what I did with the bank and just have it written on the roof or what not. Deleted the paths so you can reupload them.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:31 pm

Ya, II finished uploading them (I think). Sympatico is realllllly slow!!!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:44 pm

Ya, I can't believe I actually successfully uploaded 50KB of data a few minutes ago.

don't ask where I took that bandwidth. It just... let me do it.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:11 pm

Wow, you got reserve bandwidth? Have you got a device that soaks up bandwidth and when your ISP goes down, it provides backup? OMG! THAT WOULD BE SOOOO AWESOME!

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