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Bi-Weekly Update 01 December 2009
Bi-Weekly Update for 01 December 2009 1) Contents
2) Body: Minimal Staffing The staff wants to wish everyone a happy and safe holiday season over the next month. With the holidays looming, many staff will be taking time off to spend time with family and friends. Please be aware that staff will not be as available as we normally are during other months of the year. Responses to emails, postings and other issues may be slow. Food Exploits on TC Nova Exploiting by using bugged food is not allowed on TC Nova. Please delete and refrain from using Flameout and Scrimpi. Additionally, some peices of Synthsteak may be bugged. You can see if the sythsteak is bugged by watching the combat log. If you are taking zero damage, please delete those pieces of sythsteak. Taking zero damage is considered exploiting and the account is subject to administrative action. <<<modified: Exo-protien wafers are added to this list of bugged foods. It is best if you do not use synthsteak at all. >>> <<<Note: Actions will now be taken on users that repeatedly violate this temporary ban>>> Posting to the Appropriate Forums We have many new members who have entered our community and are not always aware of forum posting rules. Please review these Terms of Service, Player Rules and Policies and Forum Use guidelines before posting. All members are encouraged to stay on topic for the thread. The trolling, flaming, advertising and otherwise disrespecting of others counteracts the productive purpose of the forums and will face increased scrutiny and severe consequences. Please report inappropriate posts. Special thanks to those members who have thoughtfully and consistently helped put newbie posters back on track: Labryinth, Vlada, and mijom. Crash To Desktop Some players are experiencing CTD when on Endor and Lok. The following changes to your game set up will often alleviate this issue. Close all instances of the game. Then open LaunchPadEnanced, choose game options, and go to the advanced tab. Disable the the world preloading, file caching, and asynchronous loader. Save and close your LPE. Restart LPE and attempt to load in. If this does not work, it also helps to disable bump mapping, use low detail textures, disable multiple-pass rendering and disable V-sync. Cantina In-Game Macros It is becoming hard for ATK players to speak in spatial in the cantinas due to AFK macros spamming spatial. Spamming is against the Player Rules for TC. Please keep all AFK spam emotes and repeated macro lines to 5 minute intervals or longer. This makes the minimum pause at 300. There isn't a real need to make announcements, solicit tips or make random emotes more than once every 5 minutes if you are not ATK. Entertainer buffers can deliver their instructions via groupchat in their macro. All AFK spammers will find themselves with a one-way trip to southern Lok and repeat offenders will be introduced to firmer measures. Camping in the Cloners Players that kill another character in the field may not follow the character to the cloner and "camp" them for a second or third kill. This includes bringing additional members of the killer's guild or alts to wait at the cloner. As a rule of thumb, do not kill any player within the cloning facility. <<<Note: Actions will now be taken on users that repeatedly violate this temporary ban>>> Notice on TC Fixes and Changes Until further notice, the only upcoming TC fixes will be dealing with the rubberbanding issues. All other fixes will be applied after the OR is released.
Staff and Support
Last but not least, we'd especially like to thank the Support Volunteers who have been overwhelmingly helpful with IRC support. We'd never get anything done without them! Thanks to: Shadow-Viper, Tiger, Corbaer, Mijom, Ellyssia, Shotter, KarlDeux, Geforce and sam_enock Quick Stats for 15 November 2009 to 1 December 2009 Developer Code Commits: 1 Average Web/Forum Daily Hits: 49,771 Total Web/Forum Hits: 764,748 Total Users who used the Website: 27,183 Current number of SWGEmu Accounts: 103,089 Average TC Daily Logins: 5,112 Total TC Logins: 181,312 Total Users who used the TC: 18,169 3) Staff Perspectives ("Round Table") Quote:
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Woot!
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Second.
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cool beans.
thanks for the update! |
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As normal thanx for the updates, big or small, doesnt matter just nice to hear how things are going. Happy holidays to all!!!
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Nice.
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Thank you Serpentkaa for making it publicly clear concerning those particular food exploit.
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Thanks for the update!
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Great update! Thanks.
Enjoy the holidays! |
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Good to hear what's happening.
And don't worry about the low staffing, I'm sure a lot of members will be less active themselves cause of their own holiday ventures, so hopefully less to moderate and deal with anyways. |
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very nice...ty devs
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Nice. Looking forward to more details about the OR progress in December then ;-).
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I've been to southern lok lately...there is no escape!
WTB...Master Doc to drag my corpse back to Nyms...lol! Last edited by caveshmoe; 12-01-2009 at 10:59 PM. |
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Thanks for the update. It's good to know a bit about what's going on behind the scenes, and even a hidden indication of at least how much longer we can expect to enjoy our current incarnation of the Emu.
Keep it up guys! |
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