March 2004

News for Thursday March 18, 2004 · EC Vacation System
 
Dear VGA Planets Fans,

there is a new discussion starting in the Forum about how games with players going on vacation should be handled in future. I invite everyone to join it and make suggestions and comments so everyone has a chance to influence the results.

The thread can be found here.

 
by Black Shadow


News for Wednesday March 10, 2004 · new games
 
Be greeted Galactic Traveller,

ok three games are already filled up again but I am mentioning here anyway that we have added some new games... ;)

We will add more as soon as all these games are filled up including some more custom games with addons in the next days too, stay tuned!

 
by Black Shadow


News for Tuesday March 9, 2004 · cplayer enhancement
 
Dear VGA Planets Fans,

you might notice more active computer players in your games these days while it usually took some time for them to get active or in some cases they even never did a thing. That is because of the fact that Spacelord had to be manually activated and deactivated in our hosting software AutoTroll in the past each time a player joined/dropped.
Unnecessary to say this worked kinda okay with 130 player while it has become impossible with 1300+ players. It ended with me activating and deactivating cplayers all day and the fact this had to be changed!

And here we're rollin'! Team-Member StarHawk has written a great addon-program that automatically sets Spacelord up in AutoTroll.
I'm currently adding it to all running games and it will be automatically added to all new games coming up ( ;-) ). It might take about a week to get it active in the running games, feel free to email us a short line in case you think it is still deactivated in a game and I'll verify this and add it in this case.

We are planing already some other addons like this which resulted in the decryption of the latest AutoTroll database-structure. Keep your eyes open ...

 
by Black Shadow