<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>A productive programming day so far. Updates to <a href="http://netrek.networkmom.net" class="">netrek.networkmom.net</a> Empire server:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Zach wrote:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">> Can you reduce the number of bots per team before the game next week? There are so many bots I wouldn't be able to see all the player names.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That goes against one goal of Empire mode, which is to have a BIG game with 4 full teams (of course we’d prefer 28-32 humans).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve made robots take the higher numbered slots. Human players take the lower numbered slots. That way the human player list will be visible on all clients until ~20 human players, at which point some clients (COW) have them scroll off the bottom.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">> “Detted torp damage seems high”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Fixed</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">> Add armies to kill report if dying player was carrying</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Fixed</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">> Inconsistent use of slot numbers versus letters versus hex</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Server now consistently uses decimal. Some clients still use letters a-v for players 10-32.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">> Torp vector needs correction</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Fixed. Torp/ship vector now affects torp speed (butt-torping is slower) but not aim direction, consistent with Vanilla.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">> No torp wobble</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Fixed. Torps now wobble</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">> Turn radius for cruiser at speed 9 seems too lenient</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Fixed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">> Bug: possible to repair after engine failure</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Fixed</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Outstanding issues:</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">> I can't put my finger on exactly what it is, but compared to the vanilla<br class="">> Netrek server, the animation feels "jagged”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(Goal: increase to 20 fps)</div><div class=""><br class="">> The wall clock blinks about once per second, which is the same rate<br class="">> where I see torpedoes that shouldn't be there blink in and out.<br class=""><br class="">I saw the wall clock blinking on the COW client. I have no idea what causes that, but I do send a bunch of updates once per second. Will investigate.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Darrell</div></body></html>