Friday with Means - July 8th, 2011 - IDs Please

[Means]

*A German translation of this will be unavailable until next week as I was very late getting this to Waldgeist.*

Changing the Mission and Corpse ID systems on the Live dimensions seems to have gone well and we seem to be out of the woods on this issue at least for the foreseeable future. Running out of IDs in a non-recycling system brings things to a halt in a great big hurry. The update initially contained character-id recycling code that was not even remotely adequately tested...my fault not Macrosun's as I was orchestrating the testing process with the QA department. The update initially had a few problems...that were quickly pointed out by members of the community directly to the development staff. Because we got this information quickly from you guys we were able to determine what the problem was quickly and get a new version out to the live servers. Making a new ID system is easy..getting it to work with one that has already been running for 10 years is not. 4.4 Billion IDs is a large amount of information to move around.

Alien city attacks were completely broken due to the fact that the City controllers track the individual, non-reusable ID of individual aliens to determine whether the Hacker is dead or not. Players would kill the Hacker associated with a wave..and somewhere off in the distance a Leet would spawn..and be given the same ID as the Hacker previously had. When the city controller would run its periodic check on the Alien status in the city it would quite wrongly assume the new Leet was the Hacker and refuse to send out new aliens.

Mission and Corpse ID's were the ones that were running out inside the month...we'll have another shot at the CharacterIDs later as we have more than a year to get that one done. Thank you Macrosun for getting rid of another super-old-not-your-fault and seemingly impossible issue...you had me worried for awhile there!

Thank you again for your patience and support in tracking down that nasty issue.

See you on Live!

[Manicmouse]

first

edit: wtf first time ever for me time to read the post now ^^

[Zwelgje]

Darn

[Lazy]

Tsherman Translashion

^_^

[Tazalanche]

Can someone with Funcom please tell us when is the earliest that the tenth anniversary content will be officially removed?

[Means]

Can someone with Funcom please tell us when is the earliest that the tenth anniversary content will be officially removed?

Monday July 18th.

[Aiken]

Gotta love Macrosun! All Hail Macrosun !

[nanoforcer]

Even though i do apreciate to hear what the dev team has been struggeling with lately and all them bumps they had i belive that us the players would like a small update on how the nano documentation is going, and progress overall, thanks

[larzba77]

OoO

[nubbs]

Friday with Beer! Hooray!

[lainbr]

rawr date when nanodocs v2 release? :3

P.s.: Poor Macrosun. I always feel like he haz a zomg pwnage job ^^

[Transform]

first page ever :P

[Warhead]

Let's just roll over and die

[Eugess]

It really was the Leets fault!!!!

[Farlath]

can haz nanodocs?

[Alternity]

Did Gaute join the AO team again? Maybe doing freelance work? Because I swear the "new" and "improved" BattleStation has Gaute's fingerprint all over it, it's like a mini AoC.

[Twangleman]

I rather enjoyed the heckler of celebration rampages

[sultryvoltron]

Friday with Means - July 8th, 2011 - Stuff you Already Knew

Here's some unnecessarily deteailed information that you didn't really care about, and no mention of the stuff you do.

Enjoy!

[Scottik]

< The One Who was not Fast Enough

[Regidoc]

OMG I got on the first page yay