Post: #57

@WAP
Move networking area below the intial stuff in the top of INI. Basically near whereever you put AGREE=1. That according to Anarch Cassius fixes those issues. There should be no reason it worked not long ago and be broken now since none of us are playing with the networking. That is SugarCube's area of expertise. He always has done the networking.

What packet issues? There are new walk packets we won't implement. Cube said something was buggy with them in general or something. He also didn't implement the new animation packets or something. He said they weren't needed at the moment I believe.

@Zolter
What does development power have to do with player counts? That is about the most retarded shit I have ever heard in my life. Major game development companies have a good bit of their programmers having no contact with testing players or the servers. With a SPHERE run server we could do more testing for such bugs. What any of this has to do with power is beyond me. As for a guinea pig? What the heck are you talking about? If your players knew your server was in Beta or was used for Sphere testing, why would you lose players? Nothing you are saying in that first paragraph makes any sense for development or who works in development.

Second. You have SQL support. If you don't like using it, I suggest you create an internal VAR database in sphere. I don't think you read that most of us actually have a life and don't live in front of our PC's even if our job is PC work. I personally don't have time to recode the external support for different sql servers or apache atm. If ShiryuX does or Cube was around and felt it was rellevent to, then that is another story.

Me and ShiryuX both can use C. You keep throwing it out there like it some god given right to allow someone to work in the hardcode. I'd take someone who knew nothing but Python. If they can prove they can program something, I'd hire them. As it is I am not hiring a bunch of people A. We do not know. B. Who have no proof of programming background (At least if you've been here and posted scripts at some point I can see where your mindset is programming functionally) C. People who are pushing for open-source.

Now. I am one of the few Dev's still left around. I will do the hiring as soon as I am able. I have trigonometry work to wrap up today for classes and an essay to right. Then I am formally celebrating my birthday this weekend. If this does not appease anyone, sorry. It is how it is. There is not a single company that hire's mass people to deal with sensitive code in one day . We have to weigh the options. I have my top 3 picked though so far. I am still conversing with a few people to get a feel for their knowledge and coding processes and what they can contribute. I plan on sending a list of candidates to Cube too. I do technically have a way to reach him. If he doesn't reply I guess we can assume he is inactive.

Me personally, I can manage to add stuff here and there as many dev's do when their lives get busy. We have probably 12 - 16 dev's. 2 Active. The rest are inactive. Doesn't mean they lose development rights. Any contribution from them is a plus.