quote:Originally posted by galaxi
There is a popular server that runs extern at 9:00pm, which is creating some peculiar situations with pods. For example, I was told that you can only pod twice from midnight to midnight, that this was a hard-coded game feature, extern notwithstanding: the third time you lose your ship, you get #SD#'d, no matter when extern runs. Sure enough, I had 2 pods mothing between midnight and 9:00pm, and then blindwarped at 10:30pm and had my third pod of the day, rather than the expected #SD#! Could you please tell us exactly how many pods a player would have under the following circumstances?
Please note that extern runs at 9:00pm, and the term "respawn" is used by these players to designate midnight, when you would be able to reenter the game from a #SD# state.
(a) Player loses 2 pods between 9:00pm and midnight - does respawn give him 2 more, or is he podless until 9:00pm the next night?
podless until 9:00 pm the next night
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(b) Player loses 2 pods between midnight and 9:00pm, does he now have 2 MORE pods to use between 9:00pm and midnight, for a total of 4 for that day?
He has two more pods to use until extern next runs at 9 pm the next night.
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(c) Player gets #SD#'d after 9:00pm; when he comes back in at midnight, how many pods does he have now?
That's the tricky one. He has as many pods left as he had when #SD#'d -1 for the #SD#. So if he had all of his pods at 10 pm and cbys, he can enter the game at midnight and will have 1 pod left. If he gets podded then #SD#'s at 10 pm, he can enter the game at midnight and will have no pods left.
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I'm hoping Harley can give us the last word on this subject, since there is a lot of information going around about this atm, most of it WRONG.
Thanks in advance,
galaxi
Basically, only extern resets the number of pods a person have, only midnight allows a person to enter the game again.
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