Recent content by bob the big blob of goo

Here is the scenario we have: - Multiple administrators log onto the server using unique credentials. - The four different instances of the game are run as services executing under the "system" account. - The system account doesn't have a USER profile requiring applications to run with the...

What is up with the WEST and EAST regions for the US?  Where is North America - Central?  What about us in the middle of the country running our servers in Dallas so we are on the prime fiber junction for best bandwidth across our player base? Splitting up the US doesn't make much sense on the...

Any chance you guys could issue a unique token to each player as they login that would be required to be appended to their data stream back to the server?  That way you can reject any input that isn't essentially signed.  Something that can't be discovered by another player.  Unless, you are...

How can we change the distance between planting of tree seeds?  We keep running into issues with players creating large tree farms that end up making the region lockup.  We want to make it so they have to plant them farther apart to keep the regions loadable.  I have tried several different...

Said much better than I did. There are some great thoughts on all angles of the skills/progression method. I also agree with what Madmole said about Skyrim and the max level issues. No matter how they skin this thing, most players want to see, taste and feel progression. A good number of...

As one of the admins of several very active servers I interact with hundreds of players with varied play style. The resounding feedback on this topic is that they are very happy that they get experience for doing pretty much everything and they get to spend the XP the way they want. We have...

Well, I have about 3,200 hours in the game and have played a few full make over mods. All I see is positive progress forward towards a solid game. Each version TFP try new things and rip out other experiments. It was a given that we signed on for the roller coaster ride of trying out lots of...

I have a user on our MP server that has two invalid questItem bag items. They are unable drop them and they don't have any quests to complete. Is there a way to either remove an inventory item via the console or by editing their player profile on the server? This is on A17e B221. I'd be...

The down side is that you have to hand place every POI, the roads, water and spawn points. The upsides are the same list. There isn't a way today, at least that I have found, to present your terrain and have the RWG then do the rest of the layout and necessary smoothing. I did however, build...

@Madmole @Gazz Custom Maps Ok, I finally got my height map working as a TGA from Photoshop. Now, how do I get the height map in and then have the random gen use that as the base to finish calculating where to drop the water, roads and POIs? Using my height map to replace the terrain for a...

Well, I created a nice terrain map in grayscale and 8-bit saved as a TGA from Photoshop. Tried to load it and I get an error: 2018-11-28T14:20:23 54.923 INF Started thread GenerateChunks Exception: TGA texture had non 32/24 bit depth. I opened a DTM that RWG had created for a new game today...

Yep, you can't cure stupid is my favorite comment. The other is it looks like the wheel is still turning, but the hamster died. And, I hate when a single quote prevents your code from running correctly and you just spent the last 2 hours looking at it trying to figure it out. When, someone...

I really like the healing affect you get from bedrolls and beds in Ravenhearst. The better quality the bed the faster you heal. It is an extra thing and you can choose to avoid beds completely. Plus, your bedroll is portable so you can place it wherever you like whenever you like. This I...

I vote for Art or don't I. His answers rock and roll not fly xor walk.

The foundation changes that allow for event triggers, extension and mutation of objects, content driven quests, improved physics, better block handling, etc. are "foundation" pieces that the Pimps need to be able to build all of the "cool" stuff you guys are begging for. These changes aren't...