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General Questions - Biller...?

neo1070 - Sun Feb 22, 2004 3:44 pm
Post subject: Biller...?

Today, someone entered my zone offering us his biller.
I said it sounds pretty good, but my squad is unclear on what a biller exactly is.
Can someone give me a thorough explanation on what exactly a biller is?
I want to know the pros and cons of one.

wEaViL - Sun Feb 22, 2004 4:09 pm
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The biller is the program that runs and keeps track of users, squads, score's and such.... if your running the server from your own comp or server then you can use a different biller, if its hosted on a server like NTC SSI or any of the other big ones then you dont need to worry about it cuase they run there own biller....

Mine GO BOOM - Sun Feb 22, 2004 4:11 pm
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Billing servers are just a central location where player's names, passwords, and scores are saved. It allows zones to communicate with other zones on the same billing.

Advantages of using someone else's is that there are more zones connected, and you can take advantage if someone wanted to play in one of those zones, and talk with someone in another zone on the same billing. Another good advantage is that your server wouldn't have the strain of a billing server running on it (if you run one).

Disadvantages are, since you are connecting to another person's billing server, there is a chance they would sniff/decrypt your passwords. Which is a reason why Continuum warns you when you enter a non-SSC zone. Users are recommended to have a different password for every non-SSC zone, and not be one that you use for other accounts, because it isn't too hard to steal user's passwords if they wanted to.

SuSE - Sun Feb 22, 2004 4:13 pm
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billers keep track of player info

they can make it easier to organize stats and keep people in-line (like banning systems)

if you're planning on running your zone all the time, a biller is something you'd probably appreciate

the best most available biller I know of atm is SSI's

ExplodyThingy - Sun Feb 22, 2004 4:40 pm
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That text on the SSI Billing application is deceptive, I should get strike to rephrase it. Its open to pretty much anyone with a decent connection and who will keep the zone online as often as possible.

you can contact me at any time from pretty much anywhere and Ill get back to you as soon as I can.

SuSE - Sun Feb 22, 2004 10:45 pm
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wow, third reply, heheh

that's what I get I s'pose for typing one-fingered and then not looking if anyone else replied $

Qndre - Mon Feb 23, 2004 7:45 am
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So the Billing-Server only manages user accounts, etc.? Can you run a "subgame2"-server without connecting to a billing server? I don't think so.

Why is it called a "billing" server? A "billing" is a sheet of paper which tells me how much I have to pay for something but for Subspace/Continuum I don't have to pay anything. *confusing*

1stStrike - Mon Feb 23, 2004 9:26 am
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If you simply run the subgame it'll run in standalone mode. It is possible, however none of your scores will be saved, you can't really ban (as soon as the zone is restarted the bans will be gone), and no player usernames will be saved (players can login as you if they wanted).

As for the name? People have called it a billing server for as long as I can remember. No clue as to why. It's just a billing server.

Mine GO BOOM - Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:11 am
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Qndre wrote:

Why is it called a "billing" server? A "billing" is a sheet of paper which tells me how much I have to pay for something but for Subspace/Continuum I don't have to pay anything. *confusing*

You already asked this and I already answered it.

neo1070 - Tue Feb 24, 2004 7:51 pm
Post subject: wow

OMG!!!
YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!!!

theres this f****head (i censored it

) who keeps telling me never to trust the server guide
MINEgoBOOM is the server expert

If I did the opposite of whatever you guys told me, I would have a sh***y (

) server with 10000 energy and no delays whatsoever!

if you dont want me to even censor words, i say "delete my post"
i dont want to offend the coolest server experts!

Cyan~Fire - Wed Feb 25, 2004 4:11 pm
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Alrighty then. Lol.