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ThunderJam · Guest Offline

Ive never used ASSS before, just the normal subgame. So i was wondering, whats difference between the subgame and ASSS? Are there any distinct advantages from using one instead of the other?

Smong · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 9:34 am Post subject:

Less bandwidth used as you don't need bots sitting in each arena (you need to send position packets even if you are in spec I think, for subgame anyway). Also the staff can be controlled a lot more, restricting ?commands and such.

Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

The point of ASSS is that once it's "complete", we'll have a server WITH source code. Subgame, being an EXE, requires serious hacking to change/add features.
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Dr Brain · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 9:50 am Post subject:

The entire SSCX-A Hyperspace system is built on ASSS.
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Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 12:08 pm Post subject:

The advantage is this: Subgame was made a long, long time ago. The one you use today has been hacked, manually, by Priit to add in all the features. This doesn't always turn out for the best, because adding features to something that is already inefficent doesn't help much.

ASSS was created completely from the users of Continuum. It was designed for Continuum. Adding extra features into Continuum that require server changes will be many times easier, and anyone can do it.

Say you want to change the language your zone uses for commands? With subgame, you better be pretty good at editing exes. With ASSS, you just browse the souce a bit, and change the command names and the outputed text to whatever language you want.

Say you want to add a feature, like only one person per team can be in a certain ship. With subgame, this required you to create a bot that had to force people into the correct ships. This is inefficent, slow, and caused lots of headaches. With ASSS, you can play around with the source a bit, and with about 10 lines of code or so, you can add this feature in a way in which it is impossible for a user to go into the wrong shiptype, without harming the user at all.

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

plus the name is sexier

CypherJF · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 1:50 pm Post subject:

I don't like the idea of using ? for all the server commands w/ ASSS btw...
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Dr Brain · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject:

So use all *

or modify the command manager (or wherever it acutally resides) to use a different prefix.

Slicer · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 4:31 pm Post subject:

Continuum has one of the greatest abilitys ever, it can become many games, ASSS is just another step, its easier to do things with modules instead of bots and some things can be changed for the better

I think ?goat should be added.

D1st0rt · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 8:40 pm Post subject:

I don't even want to know...
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Mr Ekted · Movie Geek Gender: Joined: Feb 09 2004 Posts: 1379 Offline

If anyone ever writes a wrapper for ASSS, it needs to be called THONGG.

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 4:08 pm Post subject:

Hahaha nice.
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CypherJF · Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 2:57 pm Post subject:

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LMAO!! THONG!!!

CypherJF · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 7:09 pm Post subject:

Spammer with a bumpage fetish.

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Dr Brain · Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2004 10:49 pm Post subject:

As supreme mugwump overlorder, I declare you a thread necromancer wannabe.

CypherJF · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 2:32 am Post subject:

the Supreme Mugwump Overlorder has spoken!

*lol*

X-Raider · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 10:41 am Post subject: