Yeh, you can set a scheduler to shut down the server
at a specific time, but that means shutting down the
entire server. There's no way to just shut down a single
game.

Just compromise and use the time zone where the sane people live - Central.

               / Promethius / Enigma / Wolfen /

"A man who has no skills can be taught, a man who has no honor has nothing."

Right, Kansas is afterall the birthplace of TW.

I played against Dorthy, Toto, Scarecrow, and the Tin Man once.

If you want part time Tradewars then why only one game?

He just said to shut it down during the day while peeps were at work.
Microsoft.com already has that answer. On and Off as you wish.

Easy enough to script to Activate / Deactivate but if it can be an option within the game and JP is willing then why not? Some Sysops would like to see this made available. Plus I would not want to shut all games down but having the ability to select one or the other offers more options for players and sysops.

I think he wants to run games for multiple time zones each opening and closing per zone.

I intend to add a feature for setting a time to open a new game, and this feature shares a lot of the same functionality with that feature. I will work on both at the same time. But I don't intend to add those functions until after this is public. That's true of much of what we're discussing now. I don't want to keep changing and adding right now, I want the game to settle in to a stable state and get it out, then we can keep cranking on these things while people play the new version.

Thank you John. Please excuse our enthusiasm. You're making a lot of old geeks and gamers very happy now.

So these toggle setting will be able to be viewed from the * screen correct?

Your not proposing on keeping players in the dark on the secret T & # menu setting right?

Any new settings should be in the * screen, so if I forget to do that, please remind me :)

Before we begin ...



Death Delay On/Off is not in that menu yet.
the podless ship settings are not there either , but maybe that one should be kept secret.

And as you add the server activation on/off times , that too will need to be added.

As a side note , the T-menu High scores are used by a robot script at stardock.com
to show game info to those that use that method to post rebangs.

Eliminating the H screen or its updates will have an effect on that site.

my 2¢

I think JP said anyone with sysop access still gets real-time H screen updates, default will be real-time. Only if the sysop chooses to change the refresh rate will it effect the players.

Is once daily H screen updates NOT frequent enough for a web site?

I believe it (daryl) currently updates every 8 hours. So the H screen only updating once and hour and will not affect that website.

Your website and twgs are down. Did u pay the bill?