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by drwr
Sat Mar 04, 2017 3:50 pm
Forum: Game Chatter
Topic: Forum spam
Replies: 5
Views: 9979

Re: Forum spam

Yeah, sorry about that. I just deleted the recent spam. This spammer is particularly persistent; this time they actually did create some burner email addresses on yahoo.com to register their fake accounts.
by drwr
Sat Mar 04, 2017 3:44 pm
Forum: Game Chatter
Topic: App for Android?
Replies: 6
Views: 10293

Re: App for Android?

Sorry, I don't have any plan to do this. I agree it'd be a swell thing to have, though.

David
by drwr
Sat Nov 19, 2016 9:06 am
Forum: Game Chatter
Topic: Server downtime tonight, or maybe tomorrow?
Replies: 1
Views: 5716

Re: Server downtime tonight, or maybe tomorrow?

As many of you have no doubt noticed by now, the downtime was considerably more than 20 minutes--my server was down for over 24 hours. Please accept my apologies. I'm starting to investigate alternate server providers now.

David
by drwr
Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:59 pm
Forum: Game Chatter
Topic: Server downtime tonight, or maybe tomorrow?
Replies: 1
Views: 5716

Server downtime tonight, or maybe tomorrow?

Heads up players, I just got this email from my server's hosting provider. Confusingly, I received it on 11/16/16, but it says the downtime will be "tonight, 11/17/16". So I guess it will be down either tonight or tomorrow. Mostly this shouldn't affect players unless your game turn happens...
by drwr
Wed Apr 27, 2016 9:04 am
Forum: Game Chatter
Topic: Forum spam
Replies: 5
Views: 9979

Forum spam

I've just instituted a new policy to attempt to cut down on the recent spate of obnoxious spam: now, users need to associate a valid email address with their account before being allow to post in the forums. I'm pretty sure that won't adversely impact anyone here, and it should do a lot to discourag...
by drwr
Sun Feb 28, 2016 10:34 am
Forum: Game Chatter
Topic: MAC Version of RSW Client
Replies: 10
Views: 18335

Re: MAC Version of RSW Client

Ah, good news! Well, I'll keep the Mac version online then, as it is, even though it's such a nuisance to install.
by drwr
Wed Feb 24, 2016 7:27 pm
Forum: Game Chatter
Topic: MAC Version of RSW Client
Replies: 10
Views: 18335

Re: MAC Version of RSW Client

Bah. What a pain in the butt it is to install wxPython on a recent Mac OS. I'm considering just dropping Mac support. Are you able to run it in Parallels?
by drwr
Sat Feb 20, 2016 7:16 pm
Forum: Game Chatter
Topic: MAC Version of RSW Client
Replies: 10
Views: 18335

Re: MAC Version of RSW Client

Ah, no, I see it is *still* demanding a dependency on wx. My apologies! I'll try to get this sorted soon.
by drwr
Fri Feb 19, 2016 6:00 pm
Forum: Game Chatter
Topic: MAC Version of RSW Client
Replies: 10
Views: 18335

Re: MAC Version of RSW Client

Huh, it had been working. I guess it's gone out-of-date again. Which OS are you running?
by drwr
Thu Dec 03, 2015 1:42 pm
Forum: Game Chatter
Topic: Site error
Replies: 9
Views: 11215

Re: Site error

I'm running an Ubuntu image on a virtual host provided by VPSLink. RSW--client and server--is entirely written in Python (except for these forums, which are of course phpBB).

David
by drwr
Tue Nov 24, 2015 10:20 am
Forum: Game Chatter
Topic: Site error
Replies: 9
Views: 11215

Re: Site error

Ted, if you still can't get in after resetting the client as described above, let me know what games you're trying to get access to and I'll see what I can do.
by drwr
Thu Nov 19, 2015 12:14 pm
Forum: Game Chatter
Topic: Site error
Replies: 9
Views: 11215

Re: Site error

My apologies! The server disk space filled up and I didn't notice. Unfortunately, it's the same server that also handles my email, so email messages that might have told me about the problem weren't getting through to me either. :( Finally I thought to check why no one loved me enough to send me any...
by drwr
Fri Sep 04, 2015 4:51 pm
Forum: Game Chatter
Topic: Question about dropping robots
Replies: 2
Views: 5263

Re: Question about dropping robots

For the benefit of others coming across this thread, it works out like this: dropping 3 ships means dropping 6 robots (each ship becomes 2 robots). Each robot kills 4 people, with any fractional robot rounded down. So, the first 5 robots and the first 20 people killed each other, and the 6th robot f...
by drwr
Fri Sep 04, 2015 4:45 pm
Forum: Game Chatter
Topic: What phase does population growth occur?
Replies: 1
Views: 4548

Re: What phase does population growth occur?

An unfortunate omission in the documentation. This happens during Phase 8, the final phase of the turn.
by drwr
Fri Sep 04, 2015 4:43 pm
Forum: Game Chatter
Topic: Question about random character assignment
Replies: 2
Views: 5297

Re: Question about random character assignment

Yes, this is true.

Of course, if you have more players than character types, some character types will necessarily be repeated; but other than this exception the game tries to make character assignment as balanced as possible.