* Joining 'Whats going on'...
06:16:13 [PB]ScottyderEchte: "wow lots o peeps "
06:16:13 [Admin]Trag: "well I could have worded that differently.."
06:16:13 Astral Viper {GTN For Ever}: "lol"
06:16:38 [Admin]Trag: "give the people in game a chance to join"
06:16:49 [Admin]Trag: "so say we'll start in a few minutes"
06:16:57 [=IT=]ruff: "call all it here "
06:18:53 '_A1Tyrael: "Dude this version is really boring, why did you guys make it trag?"
06:17:24 [Admin]Trag: "grabbing a drink brb"
06:18:19 [PB]ScottyderEchte: "actually"
06:18:35 [PB]ScottyderEchte: "it is to straigten out some of the BS that is being said"
06:18:38 [Admin]Trag: "Ok this looks to be hit"
06:18:55 [Admin]Trag: "First off please lets keep this civil, and orderly."
06:19:12 Tbone: "you could always moderate us"
06:19:32 [Admin]Trag: "I could, but we can all behave right?"
06:19:32 [Raven]Caustic Vengeance: "trag? u mind if i log this 4 clan forum?"
06:19:41 [Admin]Trag: "I don't care that's fine."
06:20:03 [Admin]Trag: "As usual, please direct your question to scotty, and he'll ask me them in order."
06:20:23 [Admin]Trag: "So bear with me as I read and respond, i'm still getting used to this laptop keyboard..."
06:21:02 [Admin]Trag: "Just smaller than I'm used to "
06:21:16 [=IT=]ruff: "i haf 1 quest "
06:21:32 [Admin]Trag: "Yes, scotty you ready?"
06:21:43 Astral Viper {GTN For Ever}: "monty here yet?"
06:21:47 [PB]ScottyderEchte: "yep"
06:21:54 [=IT=]ruff: "haha scotty run ayway "
06:22:30 [PB]ScottyderEchte: "ruff whisper questions to me"
06:22:33 A Smelly Old Man: "Scotty"
06:22:34 [Admin]Trag: "Direct your questions to scottyderechte."
* [=IT=]ruff whispered "wazzup with gid?"
* [S.W]Tony the Pony @55321 Sent "can trag give us an overview first?"
06:22:58 A Smelly Old Man: "is there a ingame whisper button?"
* [Admin]Trag takes a shot of tequila....
06:23:06 [Raven]Caustic Vengeance: "oh...whisper? not public?"
* You whispered to [Admin]Trag : "start with an opener - and expalin about gid plz"
06:23:19 Astral Viper {GTN For Ever}: "lol trag"
06:23:20 [=IT=]ruff: "wel u did say ask "
06:23:20 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "haha"
06:23:35 [Admin]Trag: "Ok guys one thing I would like to address first is gideon."
06:23:39 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "right click on the mods name, and click whisper, top of the emote list"
* [=IT=]ruff give [Admin]Trag alot more tequila
06:23:50 [Admin]Trag: "A lot of you are worried about his departure and how this will effect the game."
06:24:15 [=IT=]ruff: "yepz"
06:24:17 [Admin]Trag: "Yes, we all will miss Gideon as his development and devotion skills here are irreplacement."
06:24:42 [Admin]Trag: "However, the foundation has been laid down for some time in what we foresee in this game."
06:25:00 [Admin]Trag: "Gid's of course was instrumental to that process and will continue long after he has gone."
06:25:26 [Admin]Trag: "We have documents and insight to what we all as developers have come to agreement on."
06:25:51 [Admin]Trag: "This of course which has done over the past few years and of course with the help and experience of our playerbase."
06:26:29 [Admin]Trag: "However the game will continue to grow, with or without Gideon."
06:26:51 [Admin]Trag: "Gid was not forced to leave, he did nothing wrong (I hear some rumors like he got in trouble for something)."
06:27:05 [Admin]Trag: "Gid left on his own accord, and is welcome back anytime he chooses."
06:27:29 [Admin]Trag: "The development of this game is still going on, and there is no sign of stopping."
06:27:47 [Admin]Trag: "Of course the last month of so, we all know F has moved and taken a position in another state."
06:28:07 [Admin]Trag: "His efforts are still with this game, and he gives it as much time and devotion as he can."
06:28:19 [Admin]Trag: "F still cares and calls me regularly to see how things are going."
06:28:42 [Admin]Trag: "F is now finally getting settled into his new place / job where things are calming down and he'll be return more frequently."
06:29:27 [Admin]Trag: "F had his computer's power supply blow up a few days ago, and just got back into town today from texas where he was taking care of family matters."
06:30:16 [Admin]Trag: "Scotty any questions over what I've said so far?"
06:30:32 [PB]ScottyderEchte: "just as to when will a patch come out"
06:31:14 [Admin]Trag: "F is currently working on a language port I believe of the source."
06:31:44 [Admin]Trag: "But I'll be quite honest (see no lie) and tell you I have no idea on the status of what he's working on."
06:32:17 [Admin]Trag: "I know he's working on several things (of course some in game stuff) and will release into beta for testing asap."
06:33:24 [Admin]Trag: "Astral Viper {GTN For Ever} whispered "is f going to let the devs play with the code or just keep doing it himslef?"" "
06:33:38 [Admin]Trag: "Hehe, well this must stem from the petition I'm reading."
06:33:55 [Admin]Trag: "At this time I don't see in any near future that F will release the source publically."
06:34:03 [PB]ScottyderEchte: "[S.W]Tony the Pony @55321 Sent "ive heard that the mod vote was delayed/not done. Is there a status report?""
06:34:07 [Admin]Trag: "However some of his development staff does have source code access."
06:34:13 [PB]ScottyderEchte: "ups "
06:34:16 [Admin]Trag: "So F keeps a very tight leach on it."
06:34:33 [Admin]Trag: "[=IT=]ruff whispered "ohh yehh about the lag anything has being done? or we have to wait for the patch"
06:34:53 [Admin]Trag: "Yes, F has identified and working on several in game issues to work on the lag issues. "
06:35:00 [PB]ScottyderEchte: "the Mod vote wont be held as long as people want Rogue to be a mod LOL "
06:35:05 [=IT=]ruff: ":)"
* [S.W]Reverend Macktastic Jack Beautiful {SSU} laughs at [PB]ScottyderEchte...
06:35:28 Astral Viper {GTN For Ever}: "lol"
06:35:36 [PB]ScottyderEchte: "that was a joke on my part - not an offical statement "
06:35:35 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "damn that rogue, he still ruins stuff"
06:35:54 [=IT=]ruff: "we know scotty"
06:35:58 [S.W]Reverend Macktastic Jack Beautiful {SSU}: "anyone who took it as such has little/no sense of humor "
06:36:04 [PB]ScottyderEchte: "yes im logging"
06:36:12 [Admin]Trag: "Right now I can't comment on the mod voting. I would have to confer with the rest of the admins on that."
06:37:03 [Admin]Trag: "However, honestly I would like to see some more around though. "
06:38:02 [Admin]Trag: "What's else we got?"
06:38:04 [=IT=]ruff: "u got nat"
06:38:12 A Smelly Old Man: "can i add something?"
06:38:36 [Raven]Denser Malanarvi: "Ive heard rumors about Josef becoming an Admin again, can we get confirmation on that?"
06:39:07 [Admin]Trag: "[Raven]Caustic Vengeance whispered "in the meantime are they continueing free trial?"" Right now I have no information whether the free trail will be continuing."
06:39:10 Tbone: "and this is why i said you could moderate us"
06:39:27 [Admin]Trag: "@denser, yes you can get comps on that"
06:39:43 [Admin]Trag: "[S.W]Tony the Pony @55321 Sent "i still love you....is the Dev team doing anything? or waiting for faustus?"""
06:40:05 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "you coulda cut that part out...."
06:40:10 [Admin]Trag: "Currently the dev team is awaiting F for much coding to be put in place."
06:40:12 Astral Viper {GTN For Ever}: "lol"
06:40:13 [=IT=]~(Herpal TS)-(Recruiting)-{HC}~: "lol"
06:40:20 [Admin]Trag: "@Tony, hey that's what you wrote. "
06:40:27 [S.W]Reverend Macktastic Jack Beautiful {SSU}: "bito wuvs lots of people"
06:42:31 [Admin]Trag: ""[Raven]Caustic Vengeance whispered "a sneak peek on the direction the game is going?"" "
06:42:50 [Admin]Trag: "Hmm, good question. Honestly most I can't comment on, but I can tell you it's pretty sweet."
06:42:57 Astral Viper {GTN For Ever}: "lol"
06:42:59 [Admin]Trag: "A lot of ground work is in place for it."
06:43:11 [Raven]Caustic Vengeance: "lol, come on!"
06:43:25 [IMF]Captain Stern {wait dont shoot}: "something..anything thats not top secret?"
06:43:46 [Admin]Trag: "When we finally got 1.481 out, the way the system works now, it's so much more open to other things."
06:43:52 Astral Viper {GTN For Ever}: "read the interview with faustus stern"
06:44:06 [Admin]Trag: "Uhmm, yea there are some things."
06:44:20 [Admin]Trag: "Obvious holes / bugs / lag. Structure fixes / etc."
06:44:37 [Admin]Trag: "For example "update" button for structures. "
06:44:49 [Admin]Trag: "Instead of scrapping to build a better one."
06:44:50 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "Faustus emailed me and told me 2 reactos ACs were coming back...."
06:44:57 [PB]ScottyderEchte: "update = upgrade right"
06:45:01 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "damn, that was supposed to go to the clan"
06:45:02 [Admin]Trag: "Yea, that's be talked about too. "
06:45:10 [Admin]Trag: "yea, upgrade"
06:45:13 [Admin]Trag: "my bad"
06:46:10 [Admin]Trag: "[S.W]Reverend Macktastic Jack Beautiful {SSU} whispered "so, will F continue to patch 1.481 until the lag is fixed for the most part, and then work on 1.482?"" Well F works in mysterious ways, but he'd of course make the game playable first, then work on the ohter parts."
06:46:32 [Admin]Trag: "However he may do some of it at the same time."
06:46:53 [Admin]Trag: "Oh the question about Chromix, I've not heard that's he's "gone" so to speak."
06:47:16 [Admin]Trag: "He may be taking a break for awhile, but he's still apart of our team as far as i'm concerned."
06:49:08 [Admin]Trag: "how open to input from the players (about what works in-game and what doesn't) will the Devs be now?"""
06:49:44 [Admin]Trag: "Honestly, I would have to say nearly 90% of all bug fixes / problems / errors in the game have been becuase of what you guys report to us."
06:50:09 [Admin]Trag: "As far as the future and what we add, we read everything. Not everything is good of course, we take bits and peices from everybody's."
06:50:57 [Admin]Trag: "But yes as developer / admin I can truly say that yes we do listen and we encourage ideas from the playerbase."
06:51:31 [Admin]Trag: "[Raven]Caustic Vengeance whispered "any change in rank structure, adding ships, or changing badge requirements?"""
06:52:12 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "badges should be harder to earn!"
06:52:13 [Admin]Trag: "Yes there has been talk about rank structure quite a bit as many of us have FA and nothing to look forward to, so we have come up with several scenarios for that."
06:52:31 [Admin]Trag: "Hence command and influence (which are to be seen at a later time and date (2 weeks right? )"
* Astral Viper {GTN For Ever} giggles
06:53:01 [Admin]Trag: "Adding ships, currently I don't have any indication on ships whether new or not, but requirements / loadout may."
06:53:13 [Admin]Trag: "Badge requirements / new badges - yes. Possibly there "
06:53:27 [Admin]Trag: "That has been brought up numerous times. Which I think may not be a bad option."
06:54:05 [Admin]Trag: "Of course it's not my total say, but yes we have talked about it."
06:54:27 [IMF]Captain Stern {wait dont shoot}: "just a suggestion reduce the fighters to 8 polys....i dont care if they look like little flying diamonds...they just lag the game too much when there are a hundred of them and missles flyin around"
* [S.W]Tony the Pony whispered "if an african swallow carrying a coconut flies at 5 gus north from Casablanca, and a european swallow in a storm flies south from italy, which swallow will get to Gibraltor first?"
06:55:52 [Admin]Trag: "@Stern, good point however truth be told the way the game is designed is should have no trouble with the number of poly's we have currently."
* [PB]ScottyderEchte slaps [S.W]Tony the Pony in the head with a stale fish pizza.
06:56:05 [Admin]Trag: "Technically should be able to take more."
06:56:09 A Smelly Old Man: "hmm'"
06:56:51 [IMF]Captain Stern {wait dont shoot}: "it's just i notice a huge lag spike with the fighters...dont know if it has to do with the polys or not but it's there"
06:57:21 Astral Viper {GTN For Ever}: "weve crashed the mv before with fighters ^_^"
06:57:28 [Admin]Trag: "That would be a question directed more to F than to me."
06:57:32 [S.W]Reverend Macktastic Jack Beautiful {SSU}: "perhaps not the polys but the sheer number of thingies?"
06:57:45 [S.W]Reverend Macktastic Jack Beautiful {SSU}: "verbs/nouns/whatchamacallits"
06:57:46 [Admin]Trag: "Number of objects in the zone perhaps."
06:57:57 [Admin]Trag: "Yes, exactly."
06:58:07 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "ive noticed that Def base 3s, in large numbers, tend to lag a bit"
06:58:26 [Admin]Trag: "Yes, I have noticed that as well."
06:59:02 [Admin]Trag: "Who's next? "
06:59:28 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "i believe scotty has one for you....."
06:59:36 [S.W]Reverend Macktastic Jack Beautiful {SSU}: "hehe"
07:00:16 [Admin]Trag: "[Raven]Caustic Vengeance whispered "adding servers? having clan vs clan tourneys, or anything other than what we have now?"" As far as adding servers that of course would help the server load, but I don't have any specifics on the current load on the game."
07:00:43 [Admin]Trag: "Of course the more the better right? "
07:00:57 [Admin]Trag: "Events, yes that would be great."
07:01:00 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "wouldnt it be wiser to add servers to the MV before frivolous things like clan v. clan?"
07:01:15 [Admin]Trag: "We just need to get an event organizer once again to help put one together.. "
* [Admin]Trag pokes all staff.
07:01:34 [S.W]Reverend Macktastic Jack Beautiful {SSU}: "wheres hus when you need her..."
07:01:35 Astral Viper {GTN For Ever}: "why clan vs clan with out gtn "
07:01:37 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "poke me!"
07:01:52 [Raven]Caustic Vengeance: "scap tony's comment, [S.W.] wouldn't survive a clan vs clan battle "
07:01:57 [IMF]Captain Stern {wait dont shoot}: "cripes"
* [Admin]Trag pokes everybody but tony.
07:03:38 [Admin]Trag: "Anymore questions guys?"
07:03:41 [IMF]Captain Stern {wait dont shoot}: "no....sorry"
07:03:44 [Admin]Trag: "Have I answered your questions?"
07:04:03 [S.W]Reverend Macktastic Jack Beautiful {SSU}: "everything but what tony asked"
07:04:06 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "i had one, and i cant remember"
07:04:12 [Raven]Caustic Vengeance: "ummm........caught me late, i'm not on the ball trag"
07:04:12 Buster Blader: "im gonna ask a q in a sec"
07:04:15 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "will you stick around the lobby?"
07:04:39 Astral Viper {GTN For Ever}: "is griff still an admin ?"
07:04:51 [Admin]Trag: "Yep."
07:05:09 Astral Viper {GTN For Ever}: "ok cuse i see more of him .. elsewhere"
07:05:29 [Raven]Caustic Vengeance: "so we looking at the fall to see changes or later?"
07:05:35 [Admin]Trag: "Hehe, just because we are admins don't mean we can't play other games "
07:05:51 Astral Viper {GTN For Ever}: "i know was just curious"
07:05:54 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "isnt that a rule?"
07:05:55 Astral Viper {GTN For Ever}: ":p"
07:06:01 [Admin]Trag: "The sooner the better, I'm hoping sometimes this summer. "
07:06:01 Astral Viper {GTN For Ever}: "lol"
07:06:05 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "on the contract you signed in blood?"
07:06:19 [Admin]Trag: "You think F only plays DS?"
07:06:28 [PB]ScottyderEchte: "lol"
07:06:35 Astral Viper {GTN For Ever}: ";"
07:06:37 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "i think F never plays DS"
07:06:39 Astral Viper {GTN For Ever}: ":|"
07:06:49 [S.W]Reverend Macktastic Jack Beautiful {SSU}: "too busy coding for it "
07:06:54 [Admin]Trag: "yes he does "
07:06:55 Astral Viper {GTN For Ever}: "f died easy when i played"
07:07:05 [Raven]Caustic Vengeance: ":( i only play DS.....i guess i'm weird"
07:07:07 [Admin]Trag: "Sometimes he's playing you just don't know it"
07:07:18 [Admin]Trag: "You think he always plays under "Faustus"?"
07:07:22 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "bah, damn clone accounts"
07:07:29 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "or changes names"
07:07:33 [IMF]Captain Stern {wait dont shoot}: "hear he coded himself a deathstar"
07:08:00 [Admin]Trag: "Cause he's not generally caring about fighting, but more making sure things are working right."
07:08:16 Astral Viper {GTN For Ever}: "the f mobile with 50 cl2ks"
07:08:45 [IMF]Captain Stern {wait dont shoot}: "lol"
07:08:54 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "how did all the donations go, trag?"
07:09:12 [Admin]Trag: "Dunno, I never got any. "
07:10:32 Astral Viper {GTN For Ever}: "can i ask that the name GTN be retired never again to be used in a fleet name?"
07:11:07 [Admin]Trag: "Well, it's a thought."
07:11:30 [Admin]Trag: "I'll bring it up in a meeting."
07:11:34 [Raven]Caustic Vengeance: "gee trag.....what time zone u in?"
07:11:38 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "there are a lot of dead/retired fleets....."
07:11:54 [Admin]Trag: "CST"
07:13:20 [Admin]Trag: "Basically to sum things up, I just wanted you all to know that we are still going strong."
07:13:23 [Raven]Caustic Vengeance: "not getting rid of scenerios are you? MV is harsh on ppl how want rank"
07:13:39 [Admin]Trag: "We may be down some but we are still here, F is still coding along, things are still coming together."
07:14:20 [Admin]Trag: "So, let's all not panic, stay clam right?"
07:14:30 [S.W]Reverend Macktastic Jack Beautiful {SSU}: "yes... keep clam"
07:14:41 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "good deal trag, good to know people still care; itd have been nice if Faustus were at one of these meetings, though"
07:14:41 [Admin]Trag: "scenerios... hmm"
07:15:22 [Admin]Trag: "@Tony, yes and i'm sure he's be here if you could. "
07:15:31 [Admin]Trag: "he could"
07:15:41 [Admin]Trag: "ack.. see my typing is going bad ..."
07:16:13 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "oh no, i know that, i dont mean to sound like he wouldnt be, i just mean i wish he would come around more often"
07:16:41 [Admin]Trag: "Yea, I spoke to him about that. This last month has been hectic for him."
07:16:54 [Admin]Trag: "I think you'll see him around a lot of more often now."
07:17:54 [Admin]Trag: "Anyways, I just wanted to let you guys all know what's going on here."
07:18:03 [S.W]Tony the Pony: "thanks trag"
07:18:15 [IMF]Captain Stern {wait dont shoot}: "yeah thanks trag"
07:18:24 [Admin]Trag: "If there are no more questions I will conclude this impromptu meeting. "
07:18:25 [Raven]Caustic Vengeance: "ty trag, goodnight....sleep is calling me"
07:20:37 [Admin]Trag: "Ok guys, it's been fun. Thank you all for coming."
07:20:40 [Admin]Trag: "Good night!"